Using stuff in SQL I am getting issue

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I am using stuff in sql to concat text data, but when i use stuff it convert symbol to its code.

In source records are like below.

<NONE> to BC

but when i use stuff for it, it return me like this as below.

<NONE> to BC

What I have tried:

I use stuff like this

 stuff((Select ' '+ nt.TextLine
From [table1]
FOR xml path('')),1,1,'')

Posted 6-Oct-21 8:48am

Updated 6-Oct-21 21:54pm

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-06T21:54:00

Try:

SQL

STUFF((SELECT ' ' + TextLine FROM [table1] FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'varchar(max)'), 1, 1, '')

See "The blackbox XML methods" section in this article for details:
Concatenating Row Values in Transact-SQL - Simple Talk[^]

NB: If you're using SQL Server 2017 or later, you could use STRING_AGG instead:
STRING_AGG (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs[^]