Mapping repeated (identical) elements to SQL columns based on element attribute

Question

Given this XML data, is it possible to generate the table shown?  If it's relatively easy, could someone please demonstrate.  If it's involved, then just suggesting references which are pertinent to solving this particular problem
would be greatly appreciated.  I am coming up dry in researching how one might accomplish this transformation.  OPENXML seemed capable of this - and, I have generated many different tables from this data using OPENXML.  But,
I cannot see how to generate this one.
<ROOT>
<listitem>
<variable name="Id">1</variable>
<variable name="Src">10.10.10.23</variable>
<variable name="Dst">192.168.99.7</variable>
<variable name="Service">NetBIOS-NS </variable>
<variable name="ValidTime"></variable>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<variable name="Id">8</variable>
<variable name="Color">4</variable>
<variable name="Src">10.0.0.3</variable>
<variable name="Dst">172.22.39.4</variable>
<variable name="Service">FTP </variable>
</listitem>
</ROOT>
Id Color Src Dst Service ValidTime
1 NULL 10.10.10.23 192.168.99.7 NetBIOS-NS NULL
8 4 10.0.0.3 172.22.39.4 FTP NULL

Answer 1

Hi ,
Minor modification to Dan's query:
SELECT
listitem.value('variable[@name="Id"][1]', 'int') AS Id
,listitem.value('variable[@name="Color"][1]', 'int') AS Color
,listitem.value('variable[@name="Src"][1]', 'varchar(15)') AS Src
,listitem.value('variable[@name="Dst"][1]', 'varchar(15)') AS Dst
,listitem.value('variable[@name="Service"][1]', 'varchar(30)') AS Service
,CASE WHEN listitem.value('variable[@name="ValidTime"][1]', 'varchar(20)') = ''
THEN NULL
ELSE listitem.value('variable[@name="ValidTime"][1]', 'varchar(20)')
END AS ValidTime
FROM @xml.nodes('ROOT/listitem') AS ROOT(listitem)
Refer below links for better understanding on XML shedding:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/simonince/archive/2009/04/24/flattening-xml-data-in-sql-server.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190798.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61233/the-best-way-to-shred-xml-data-into-sql-server-database-columns
http://www.allaboutmssql.com/2013/10/sql-server-different-ways-to-shred-xml.html
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