SQL 2005 For XML Explicit - Need help formatting

Question

I have a table with a structure like the following:

------------------------------
LocationID     | AccountNumber
------------------------------
long-guid-here | 12345
long-guid-here | 54321

To pass into another stored procedure, I need the XML to look like this:

<root><clientID>12345</clientID><clientID>54321</clientID></root>

The best I've been able to do so far was getting it like this:

<root clientID="10705"/>

I'm using this SQL statement:

SELECT
1 as tag,
null as parent,
AccountNumber as 'root!1!clientID'
FROM
Location.LocationMDAccount
WHERE
locationid = 'long-guid-here'
FOR XML EXPLICIT

Thanks in advance for the help, and I look forward to using StackOverflow. So far, I've looked at the documentation on the MSDN page, but I've not come out with the desired results.

Answer 1

try

SELECT 1 AS Tag,
0 AS Parent,
AccountNumber AS [Root!1!AccountNumber!element]
FROM Location.LocationMDAccount
WHERE LocationID = 'long-guid-here'
FOR XML EXPLICIT

Answer 2

Try this, Chris:

SELECT
    AccountNumber as [clientId]
FROM
    Location.Location root
WHERE
    LocationId = 'long-guid-here'
FOR
    XML AUTO, ELEMENTS

TERRIBLY SORRY! I mixed up what you were asking for. I prefer the XML AUTO just for ease of maintainance, but I believe either one is effective. My apologies for the oversight ;-)

Answer 3

I got it with:

select
1 as tag,
null as parent,
AccountNumber as 'root!1!clientID!element'
from
Location.LocationMDAccount
where
locationid = 'long-guid-here'
for xml explicit

Thanks!

Answer 4

@KG,

Yours gave me this output actually:

<root>
  <Location.LocationMDAccount>
    <clientId>10705</clientId>
  </Location.LocationMDAccount>
</root>

I'm going to stick with the FOR XML EXPLICIT from Chris Leon for now.

Answer 5

Using SQL Server 2005 (or presumably 2008) I find for XML PATH to allow for much easier to maintain SQL than for XML Explicit (particularly once the SQL is longer).

In this case:

SELECT AccountNumber as "clientID"
FROM Location.LocationMDAccount
WHERE locationid = 'long-guid-here'
FOR XML PATH (''), Root ('root');