Read XML field.....

Question

Seems I keep finding different xml data and ways to read it but can't find anything related to what I have to read (<Report Type="?").   I need to retrieve all
ReasonForLeaving based on "OH xxx-212" from a table called
Report and the field name is ReportType.  Can someone please help?
Here are some ReportType field values:
<Report Type="OH xxx-212">
  <ClaimantName>Alfred E. Newman</ClaimantName>
  <ReasonForLeaving>Starting new magazine</ReasonForLeaving>
 </Report>
<Report Type="CA xxx-233">
  <ClaimantName>Bernard Kaputnick</ClaimantName>
  <ReasonForLeaving>Discovered new page</ReasonForLeaving>
 </Report>
<Report Type="OH xxx-212">
  <ClaimantName>Tim Whatley</ClaimantName>
  <ReasonForLeaving>Changing career</ReasonForLeaving>
 </Report>
<Report Type="NM xxx-666">
  <ClaimantName>Walter White</ClaimantName>
  <ReasonForLeaving>Found new lab</ReasonForLeaving>
 </Report>

Answer 1

I am not sure if I understand the problem properly or not but
Can you not create a tabular structure of your XML and then query the data you are looking for?
Declare @vXML XML
Declare @vXMLString varchar(max)='<Report Type="OH xxx-212">
<ClaimantName>Alfred E. Newman</ClaimantName>
<ReasonForLeaving>Starting new magazine</ReasonForLeaving>
</Report>
<Report Type="CA xxx-233">
<ClaimantName>Bernard Kaputnick</ClaimantName>
<ReasonForLeaving>Discovered new page</ReasonForLeaving>
</Report>
<Report Type="OH xxx-212">
<ClaimantName>Tim Whatley</ClaimantName>
<ReasonForLeaving>Changing career</ReasonForLeaving>
</Report>
<Report Type="NM xxx-666">
<ClaimantName>Walter White</ClaimantName>
<ReasonForLeaving>Found new lab</ReasonForLeaving>
</Report>'
--Prepare it
Set @vXML=Cast('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Reports>'+@vXMLString+'</Reports>' as XML)
DECLARE @hdoc INT
Declare @vDummy Table(id int,parentid int,nodetypr int,localname varchar(100),prefix varchar(100),namespaceuri varchar(100),datatype varchar(100), prev int,text varchar(1000))
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @hdoc OUTPUT,@vXML
insert Into @vDummy
SELECT *
FROM OPENXML( @hdoc, '//*',2)
exec sp_xml_removedocument @hdoc
--Tabular Format
Select ParentData.Parentid,
ParentData.ParentName,
ParentData.ChildID,
ParentData.ChildNaMe,
ChildData.Text
From
(Select Parent.id Parentid,parent.localname ParentName,child.id ChildID,child.localname ChildNaMe,child.text
From @vDummy child,@vDummy parent
Where Child.parentid=parent.id) ParentData,
(Select Parent.id Parentid,parent.localname ParentName,child.id ChildID,child.localname ChildNaMe,child.text
From @vDummy child,@vDummy parent
Where Child.parentid=parent.id) ChildData
Where ParentData.ChildNaMe=ChildData.ParentName
And ChildData.ChildNaMe='#text'
And ParentData.ChildID=ChildData.Parentid