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Author  Topic  em00guy Starting Member 6 Posts Posted - 2007-03-20 : 19:45:53 I'm using a while loop to build a SQL insert string based on values in nodes of an XML object. Here is an example of what I'm attempting to do: SET @SQL = 'insert into dbo.stuff select ' WHILE @i < 10 BEGIN @i = @i + 1 @SQL = @SQL + @xml.value('/stuff/item' + @i ,'varchar(50)') + ', ' END This however, is incorrect because the xml.value method only accepts string literals as parameters. Can any one think of a more clever way to accomplish this task? Thanks immeasurably.