Reading xml values in sql server..

Hello All,
I have a stored procedure which returns an xml. Now, i am writing another database script using this SP.
Now in my script, First i will execute the SP and i am getting the O/P as
<root><person><id>168369</id><fullname>kishopre,ravi</fullname></person><person><id>168374</id><fullname>lasstname12,firstname12</fullname></person></root>
and now i want to get all the id values, may be in some array , so that i need to run another query against all the id values
( say select * from P_PERSON where id = id value in xml )
can any 1 please tell me how to grep all the id values in xml and run the query
Thanks...

Hello,
You can use nodes and value methods of the xml data type to return set of IDs:
select idTbl.XmlID.value('(./text())[1]', 'int') from @YourXmlDoc.nodes('/root/person/id') as idTbl(XmlID)
MP.

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