hi i have a table with an XML column

this XML data looks like this

<details><attribute id="1" value="x"/><attribute id="2" value="y"/
><attribute id="3" value="z"/></details>


could anyone help guide me on how to search something like this?

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Select * from Table Where (XMLColumn contains attribute of id="2" and
value like "y%")

Here is one way:

SELECT keycol, datacol
FROM Foo
WHERE datacol.exist('/details/attribute[ [at] id = "2"]') = 1
AND datacol.exist('/details/attribute[substring( [at] value, 1, 1) = "y"]') =
1;

HTH,

Plamen Ratchev
http://www.SQLStudio.com