i am trying to add xml to the xml data type column. The xml contains both
english and hebrew characters. English characters are saved well, but hebrew
saved as "''?" how can i fix it?Try converting the xml to varbinary(max) before inserting. From BOL:
Text Encoding
SQL Server 2005 stores XML data in Unicode (UTF-16). XML data retrieved from
the server comes out in UTF-16 encoding. If you want a different encoding,
you have to perform the required conversion on the retrieved data.
Sometimes, the XML data may be in a different encoding. If it is, you have
to use care during data loading. For example:
a.. If your text XML is in Unicode (UCS-2, UTF-16), you can assign it to
an XML column, variable, or parameter without any problems.
b.. If the encoding is not Unicode and is implicit, because of the source
code page, the string code page in the database should be the same as or
compatible with the code points that you want to load. If required, use
COLLATE. If no such server code page exists, you have to add an explicit XML
declaration with the correct encoding.
c.. To use an explicit encoding, use either the varbinary() type, which
has no interaction with code pages, or use a string type of the appropriate
code page. Then, assign the data to an XML column, variable, or parameter.
Example: Explicitly Specifying an Encoding
Assume that you have an XML document, vcdoc, stored as varchar(max) that
does not have an explicit XML declaration. The following statement adds an
XML declaration with the encoding "iso8859-1", concatenates the XML
document, casts the result to varbinary(max) so that the byte representation
is preserved, and then finally casts it to XML. This enables the XML
processor to parse the data according to the specified encoding "iso8859-1"
and generate the corresponding UTF-16 representation for string values.
SELECT CAST(
CAST (('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso8859-1"?>'+ vcdoc) AS VARBINARY
(MAX))
AS XML)
David Barber [MS]
SQL Server Documentation Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
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> i am trying to add xml to the xml data type column. The xml contains both
> english and hebrew characters. English characters are saved well, but
hebrew
> saved as "''?" how can i fix it?|||Thanks a lot
"David Barber [MS]" wrote:
> Try converting the xml to varbinary(max) before inserting. From BOL:
> Text Encoding
> SQL Server 2005 stores XML data in Unicode (UTF-16). XML data retrieved fr
om
> the server comes out in UTF-16 encoding. If you want a different encoding,
> you have to perform the required conversion on the retrieved data.
> Sometimes, the XML data may be in a different encoding. If it is, you have
> to use care during data loading. For example:
> a.. If your text XML is in Unicode (UCS-2, UTF-16), you can assign it to
> an XML column, variable, or parameter without any problems.
>
> b.. If the encoding is not Unicode and is implicit, because of the sourc
e
> code page, the string code page in the database should be the same as or
> compatible with the code points that you want to load. If required, use
> COLLATE. If no such server code page exists, you have to add an explicit X
ML
> declaration with the correct encoding.
>
> c.. To use an explicit encoding, use either the varbinary() type, which
> has no interaction with code pages, or use a string type of the appropriat
e
> code page. Then, assign the data to an XML column, variable, or parameter.
>
> Example: Explicitly Specifying an Encoding
> Assume that you have an XML document, vcdoc, stored as varchar(max) that
> does not have an explicit XML declaration. The following statement adds an
> XML declaration with the encoding "iso8859-1", concatenates the XML
> document, casts the result to varbinary(max) so that the byte representati
on
> is preserved, and then finally casts it to XML. This enables the XML
> processor to parse the data according to the specified encoding "iso8859-1
"
> and generate the corresponding UTF-16 representation for string values.
>
> SELECT CAST(
> CAST (('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso8859-1"?>'+ vcdoc) AS VARBINARY
> (MAX))
> AS XML)
>
> --
> David Barber [MS]
> SQL Server Documentation Team
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
> "michael" <michael@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:19B65A8D-E246-46EB-A85B-C517D1830BAD@.microsoft.com...
> hebrew
>
>
