[Solved]Unable to insert data into a table having a XML type column

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Hi Folks,

I landed in a weird situation.
I have a table, with just 2 columns. Below is the schema:

SQL

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[StandardView](
    [ViewName] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [Fields] [xml] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

I gotta insert a row in the above table.
I am using the below Insert Statement:

SQL

insert into dbo.StandardView values('Standard',N'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" standalone="yes"?><FieldName>Name, EmpName & Address, Designation</FieldName>')

<FieldName> tag is given by me, it does not have any significance.
While I execute the above insert statement I get the below error:
Msg 9421, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
XML parsing: line 1, character 236, illegal name character

I even tried Convert before the XML column while inserting, but to no vain.
Experts, please assist here as to where am I going wrong.
Help or pointer will be highly appreciated.

-Regards
Anurag

Posted 3-Jul-13 2:30am

Anurag Sinha V

Updated 3-Jul-13 3:01am

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RaisKazi · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-03T02:41:00

Solution 1

Have a look at below link.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/b548216c-fa54-45aa-a4b3-7f2df3bce187/xml-parsing-illegal-name-character

Posted 3-Jul-13 2:41am

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Anurag Sinha V 3-Jul-13 9:01am

Awesome link Rais..thanks for that..I had an ampersand (&) in my entry..changed it to & and it worked..Meanwhile do you knw what can we write in order to pass a dot(.) in xml??