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    copied!<p>You don't need a table valued function, use <a href="http://www.15seconds.com/issue/050803.htm" rel="nofollow">XPath to extract these values directly in a SELECT statement</a></p> <pre><code>SELECT Data.query('data(/xpath/to[@your="type"])') AS type, Data.query('data(/xpath/to[@your="value"])') AS value FROM Test /* JOINs, WHERE HAVING, GROUP BY and/or ORDER BY clauses */ </code></pre> <p><code>query()</code> executes an XPath expression, while <code>data()</code> extracts a value from the resulting XML node. </p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345117%28v=sql.90%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">MSDN Link</a></p> <pre><code>DECLARE @testTable TABLE( XmlData XML ) INSERT INTO @testTable (XmlData) VALUES ('&lt;row&gt;&lt;node&gt;&lt;key&gt;key11&lt;/key&gt;&lt;value&gt;value11&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/node&gt;&lt;node&gt;&lt;key&gt;key12&lt;/key&gt;&lt;value&gt;value12&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/node&gt;&lt;/row&gt;') INSERT INTO @testTable (XmlData) VALUES ('&lt;row&gt;&lt;node&gt;&lt;key&gt;key21&lt;/key&gt;&lt;value&gt;value21&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/node&gt;&lt;node&gt;&lt;key&gt;key22&lt;/key&gt;&lt;value&gt;value22&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/node&gt;&lt;/row&gt;') INSERT INTO @testTable (XmlData) VALUES ('&lt;row&gt;&lt;node&gt;&lt;key&gt;key31&lt;/key&gt;&lt;value&gt;value31&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/node&gt;&lt;node&gt;&lt;key&gt;key32&lt;/key&gt;&lt;value&gt;value32&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/node&gt;&lt;/row&gt;') SELECT nref.value('key[1]', 'nvarchar(50)') AS [key], nref.value('value[1]', 'nvarchar(50)') AS value FROM @testTable CROSS APPLY XmlData.nodes('//node') AS R(nref) </code></pre> <p>Result</p> <pre><code>key11 value11 key12 value12 key21 value21 key22 value22 key31 value31 key32 value32 </code></pre>
 

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