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    copied!<pre><code>SELECT SubmittedDate, XML.query('data(/Transaction01/POHeader/PO_NBR)') as PO_NBR FROM SubmitXML </code></pre> <p>You original <code>XPath</code>, <code>/POHeader/PO_NBR</code>, assumed that <code>POHeader</code> is the root node (which is not).</p> <p>A sample query to check:</p> <pre><code>DECLARE @myxml XML SET @myxml = ' &lt;Transaction01&gt; &lt;TransactionSetPurpose&gt;Insert&lt;/TransactionSetPurpose&gt; &lt;POHeader&gt; &lt;PO_NBR&gt;LG40016181&lt;/PO_NBR&gt; &lt;/POHeader&gt; &lt;/Transaction01&gt;' SELECT @myxml.query('data(/Transaction01/POHeader/PO_NBR)') </code></pre> <p>If <code>Transaction01</code> is not always the root node (which is not a good thing), use this:</p> <pre><code>SELECT SubmittedDate, XML.query('data(/*/POHeader/PO_NBR)') as PO_NBR FROM SubmitXML </code></pre> <p>Generally, <code>XML</code> schema assumes that the tag names are fixed and the variable parts go to the data of the nodes and the attributes rather than into their names, like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Transaction id='01'&gt; &lt;TransactionSetPurpose&gt;Insert&lt;/TransactionSetPurpose&gt; &lt;POHeader&gt; &lt;PO_NBR&gt;LG40016181&lt;/PO_NBR&gt; &lt;/POHeader&gt; &lt;/Transaction&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p>You should declare the namespaces using <code>WITH XMLNAMESPACES</code>:</p> <pre><code>DECLARE @myxml XML SET @myxml = ' &lt;Transaction01 xmlns="http://services.iesltd.com/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt; &lt;TransactionSetPurpose&gt;Insert&lt;/TransactionSetPurpose&gt; &lt;POHeader&gt; &lt;PO_NBR&gt;LG40016181&lt;/PO_NBR&gt; &lt;/POHeader&gt; &lt;/Transaction01&gt;' ; WITH XMLNAMESPACES ( 'http://services.iesltd.com/' AS m ) SELECT @myxml.query ( 'data(/*/m:POHeader/m:PO_NBR)' ) </code></pre> <p><strong>Update 2:</strong></p> <p>To sort:</p> <pre><code>; WITH XMLNAMESPACES ( 'http://services.iesltd.com/' AS m ) SELECT SubmittedDate, XML.value('(/*/m:POHeader/m:PO_NBR)[1]', 'NVARCHAR(200)') AS po_nbr FROM SubmitXML ORDER BY po_nbr </code></pre>
 

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