Concatenate XML without type casting to string

Question

I have the following XML generated from various tables in my SQL SERVER database

<XMLData>
...
<Type>1</Type>
...
</XMLData>

AND

<XMLData>
...
<Type>2</Type>
...
</XMLData>

AND

<XMLData>
...
<Type>3</Type>
...
</XMLData>

The final output I need is single combined as follows:

<AllMyData>
    <XMLData>
        ...
        <Type>1</Type>
        ...
    </XMLData>
    <XMLData>
        ...
        <Type>2</Type>
        ...
    </XMLData>
    <XMLData>
        ...
        <Type>3</Type>
        ...
    </XMLData>
<AllMyData>

NOTE - all the independent elements that I am combining have the same tag name.

Thanks in advance for looking this up.

Answer 1

I have the following XML generated from various tables in my SQL SERVER database

Depends on how you have it but if it is in a XML variable you can do like this.

declare @XML1 xml
declare @XML2 xml
declare @XML3 xml

set @XML1 = '<XMLData><Type>1</Type></XMLData>'
set @XML2 = '<XMLData><Type>2</Type></XMLData>'
set @XML3 = '<XMLData><Type>3</Type></XMLData>'

select @XML1, @XML2, @XML3 
for xml path('AllMyData')