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peace
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

420 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-15 : 00:23:43

how can i convert as below data to text?
Is this in HTML?

DetailColumn
<DESC v="hello"/><Dcc::Applicable v="False"/>

Result to text: hello

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-15 : 00:28:02

looks like xml to me as i cant see any standard html tags.
You can make use of XML functions for this

like for ex


DECLARE @x xml
SET @x = '<Root><DESC v="hello"/><Dcc::Applicable v="False"/></Root>'

SELECT t.u.value('@v','varchar(10)') AS vvalue
FROM @x.nodes('/Root/DESC') t(u)

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