Combining XML

Assume I have the following, in T-SQL:

declare @.xml1 xml

declare @.xml2 xml

set @.xml1 = '<first></first>'

set @.xml2 = '<second></second>'

I want to combine these, into the following, and return the results typed as XML:

<results>

<first></first>

<second></second>

</results>

I can't seem to find any way to do this - other than converting them to a string, and concatinating them and then typing the results as XML. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Scott

One way to do this is to use 'FOR XML PATH'

declare @.xml1 xml

declare @.xml2 xml

set @.xml1 = '<first></first>'

set @.xml2 = '<second></second>'

select @.xml1 , @.xml2
FOR XML PATH ('results'), type

The section 'Constructing XML Using FOR XML ' in BOL has more information about the different FOR XML capabilities.

Thanks

Babu

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Beautiful!!!

Thank you Babu!