XML xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation

jallen_gomedico,

xmlns: is what appears before all namespace prefixes; therefore, if you are wanting a namespace prefix of noNamespaceSchemaLocation then xmlns: should proceed it and not xsi.

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_namespaces.asp

Please clarify what your intent is, so can figure out if I am missing your point here.  Otherwise, you could want to specify namespace for elements that don't have a prefix and that would be xmlns with no :{prefix} after it.

This might be a better reference for you as it is the BOL from Microsoft specifically regarding SQL's WITH XMLNAMESPACES versus the other was just to exemplify for you how xmlns is used.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177400.aspx

mwvisa1,

Thanks for the reponses.  Although the links help in the understanding of the namespaces, they didn't really help with my issue.  I see plenty of examples on various forums of xml with xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation but I would like to see some sql on how this is acheived...

Thanks.

-JAllen

Yeah, I believe I know what you are trying to do, but don't believe that is possible with xmlnamepaces; however, I will call some other experts in SQL to see if they know how to work around this.

Thanks!

Thanks for joining in, Mark!

Thanks Mark, and you too mwvisa1!

No problems, and thanks to mwvisa1 for getting in touch :)

Just as a small "bonus" for more complex queries you can resort to something like (usinf dynamic SQL so you can more easily construct the list of elements):

declare @my_xml_insert nvarchar(max)

set @my_xml_insert = '
DECLARE @myXML XML
set @myXML = ''<root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="\\SomeServer\SomeFile\Some.xsd">
   <PATH> </PATH>
</root>''

'
set @my_xml_insert = @my_xml_insert + 'SET @myXML.modify(''          
insert (          
    <Element1>1</Element1>,          
    <Element2>3</Element2>          
   )          
into (/root/PATH)[1] '')

select @myXML'

exec (@my_xml_insert)          

-- and in 2008 then you can list those added elements by using the insert sql:variable construct and get rid of the dynamic sql :

-- First we need to build an appropriate variable to use for the insert, so, @newelements is something like :

DECLARE @newElements xml
set @newelements = (select ProductID,name,productnumber from production.product for xml path('Product'))

DECLARE @myXML XML
set @myXML = '<root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="\\SomeServer\SomeFile\Some.xsd">
   <PATH> </PATH>
</root>'

SET @myXML.modify('insert sql:variable("@newElements") into (/root/PATH)[1]')

-- hope that helps just a bit more...