Generate XSLT file using XML

Question

Hi All,
How to generate XSLT file based on the below xml
<Employees>
<Employee EmployeeID="1">
<FirstName>Guy</FirstName>
<LastName>Gilbert</LastName>
<Address>
<AddressLine1>7726 Driftwood Drive</AddressLine1>
<City>Monroe</City>
<StateOrProvince>WA </StateOrProvince>
<PostalCode>98272</PostalCode>
</Address>
</Employee>
<Employee EmployeeID="2">
<FirstName>Kevin</FirstName>
<LastName>Brown</LastName>
<Address>
<AddressLine1>7883 Missing Canyon Court</AddressLine1>
<City>Everett</City>
<StateOrProvince>WA </StateOrProvince>
<PostalCode>98201</PostalCode>
</Address>
</Employee>
</Employees>and also like to know how to query whole employees details using SQl Query?Thanks in advance-DS

Answer 1

Hi Karthi,
Regarding your description, to achieve your requirement you can reference the below code.
--create schema collection
CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION EmployeeSchema AS '
<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<element name="Employees" >
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="Employee" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="FirstName" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
<element name="LastName" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
<element name="Address" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" >
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="AddressLine1" type="string" />
<element name="City" type="string" />
<element name="StateOrProvince" type="string" />
<element name="PostalCode" type="string" />
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</sequence>
<attribute name="EmployeeID" type="string" use="required" />
</complexType>
</element>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</schema>'
--Validating an XML variable
DECLARE @xmlDoc XML(EmployeeSchema);
SET @xmlDoc =
'<Employees>
<Employee EmployeeID="1">
<FirstName>Guy</FirstName>
<LastName>Gilbert</LastName>
<Address>
<AddressLine1>7726 Driftwood Drive</AddressLine1>
<City>Monroe</City>
<StateOrProvince>WA </StateOrProvince>
<PostalCode>98272</PostalCode>
</Address>
</Employee>
<Employee EmployeeID="2">
<FirstName>Kevin</FirstName>
<LastName>Brown</LastName>
<Address>
<AddressLine1>7883 Missing Canyon Court</AddressLine1>
<City>Everett</City>
<StateOrProvince>WA </StateOrProvince>
<PostalCode>98201</PostalCode>
</Address>
</Employee>
</Employees>'
--how to query whole employees details
SELECT T.N.value('@EmployeeID[1]','INT') AS EmployeeID,
T.N.value('(FirstName)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS FirstName,
T.N.value('(LastName)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS LastName,
T.N.value('(Address/AddressLine1)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS AddressLine1,
T.N.value('(Address/City)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS city,
T.N.value('(Address/PostalCode)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS PostalCode
FROM @xmlDoc.nodes('/Employees/Employee') AS T(N)
If you have any question, feel free to let me know.
Eric Zhang
TechNet Community Support