You could consider your TSQL query to give you the XML in the initial query.
using :
Select ....
FOR XML PATH('NameOfDataHere'), ROOT('NameOfDataHere'), ELEMENTS
When you name the columns, put in the XML element path/name
c.ClientCity as "billTo/address/city",
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:45 PM Richard Kaye <rk...@invaluable.com> wrote:
> Let’s try this again. (Stupid Outlook…)
>
> That’s another possibility. Thanks, Tracy. 😊
>
> The original data source is coming from a SQL backend so I’ve just added
> some ISNULL calls around the fields which matter to the
> CURSORTOXML/XMLTOCURSOR calls.
>
> --
>
> rk
>
> From: ProfoxTech <profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com> On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 7:33 PM
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> Subject: Re: CURSORTOXML and NULLs
>
> I tend to create the cursor and use flags to append to the existing cursor.
>
> Tracy
>
> On March 29, 2022 7:01:47 PM EDT, Richard Kaye <rk...@invaluable.com
> <mailto:rk...@invaluable.com>> wrote:
> While I'm poking away at this, I thought I'd check with the collective
> wisdom. I've found a situation where I want to take advantage of
> CURSORTOXML and XMLTOCURSOR. The issue I'm running into is if the cursor
> being converted to XML has fields with NULL values in the first record,
> this appears to affect the resulting XMLTOCURSOR conversion. Any NULL
> columns will be missing from the result cursor even if later rows in the
> XML contain values. The hacky workaround seems to be I have to make sure
> that the first record has non-null values for all columns I want in the
> cursor. Anyone have any other magic tricks?
>
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