Does SQL Server support XML Functions

Do any versions of SQL Server support the following functions, as
they appear in the Oracle Database:-
1) XMLElement
2) XMLAttributes
3) XMLForest
Thanks in Advance for your reply
sNot sure about Oracle counterparts, but have you checked out the FOR XML
clause in SQL Server 2000 Books Online?
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"Amardeep Verma" <addverma@.netscape.net> wrote in message
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Do any versions of SQL Server support the following functions, as
they appear in the Oracle Database:-
1) XMLElement
2) XMLAttributes
3) XMLForest
Thanks in Advance for your reply
s|||See BOL for OPENXML and FOR XML
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"Amardeep Verma" <addverma@.netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Do any versions of SQL Server support the following functions, as
> they appear in the Oracle Database:-
> 1) XMLElement
> 2) XMLAttributes
> 3) XMLForest
> Thanks in Advance for your reply
> s|||In addition, SQL 2005 will make XML a first-class citizen in the server, XML
data types, XQUERY, the full ride!
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"Amardeep Verma" <addverma@.netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Do any versions of SQL Server support the following functions, as
> they appear in the Oracle Database:-
> 1) XMLElement
> 2) XMLAttributes
> 3) XMLForest
> Thanks in Advance for your reply
> s|||Hi,
Yep the SQL Server supports the FOR XML clause which returns the
Records/Rows as XML. However Oracle does not support FOR XML clause.
(oracle 9i). To get the output in XML format the functions that i have
mentioned have to be used.
Now before I end up using the above mentioned functions, i wanted
to know whether these functions are supported by other Databases also
or not.
Bye
Amardeep Verma
"Narayana Vyas Kondreddi" <answer_me@.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<uldgTsGeEHA.1764@.TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Not sure about Oracle counterparts, but have you checked out the FOR XML
> clause in SQL Server 2000 Books Online?
> --
> HTH,
> Vyas, MVP (SQL Server)
> http://vyaskn.tripod.com/
>|||FOR XML is SQL Server's T-SQL specific.
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"Amardeep Verma" <addverma@.netscape.net> wrote in message
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Hi,
Yep the SQL Server supports the FOR XML clause which returns the
Records/Rows as XML. However Oracle does not support FOR XML clause.
(oracle 9i). To get the output in XML format the functions that i have
mentioned have to be used.
Now before I end up using the above mentioned functions, i wanted
to know whether these functions are supported by other Databases also
or not.
Bye
Amardeep Verma
"Narayana Vyas Kondreddi" <answer_me@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<uldgTsGeEHA.1764@.TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Not sure about Oracle counterparts, but have you checked out the FOR XML
> clause in SQL Server 2000 Books Online?
> --
> HTH,
> Vyas, MVP (SQL Server)
> http://vyaskn.tripod.com/
>|||These functions are part of the ANSI/ISO SQL-2003 standard and are not
supported in SQLServer 2005 for a variety of reasons (ISO spec was released
too late for us to add them, they are less performing and more verbose than
a rowset mapping approach such as FOR XML).
We may consider them in the next release, if enough users request them. So
please let me know if I should count you :-).
Best regards
Michael
"Amardeep Verma" <addverma@.netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Do any versions of SQL Server support the following functions, as
> they appear in the Oracle Database:-
> 1) XMLElement
> 2) XMLAttributes
> 3) XMLForest
> Thanks in Advance for your reply
> s