I'm trying to do my "Hello World" in XQuery and running into problems. Maybe you can advise.
DECLARE @.MyXML xml
SET @.MyXML = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<bookstore><book category="COOKING">
<title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>
<author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>30.00</price>
</book><book category="CHILDREN">
<title lang="en">Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book><book category="WEB">
<title lang="en">XQuery Kick Start</title>
<author>James McGovern</author>
<author>Per Bothner</author>
<author>Kurt Cagle</author>
<author>James Linn</author>
<author>Vaidyanathan Nagarajan</author>
<year>2003</year>
<price>49.99</price>
</book><book category="WEB">
<title lang="en">Learning XML</title>
<author>Erik T. Ray</author>
<year>2003</year>
<price>39.95</price>
</book>
</bookstore>'
When I run this query in sql 2005 Query Editor I get the error message:
Msg 9332, Level 16, State 1, Line 41
XQuery [query()]: Syntax error near 'data', expected 'where', '(stable) order by' or 'return'.
SELECT @.myXml.query('
<booklist>
{
for $p in /bookstore/
where data($p/@.price) > 30.00
order by $p/title[1]
return $p/@.price
}
</booklist>
Any help appreciated,
Barkingdog
I assume you want to list all the book price > 30.00, order by book's title. If so, here is the query
SELECT @.myXml.query('
<booklist>
{
for $p in /bookstore/book
where data($p/price) > 30.00
order by $p/title[1]
return $p/price
}
</booklist>')
