to_xml function

Applies to: Databricks SQL Databricks Runtime

Returns an XML string with the struct or variant specified in expr.

Syntax

to_xml(expr [, options] )

Arguments

• expr: A STRUCT or VARIANT expression.
• options: An optional MAP literal expression with keys and values being STRING.

Returns

A STRING.

For a complete list of options, see XML.

Examples

> SELECT to_xml(named_struct('a', 1, 'b', 2));
 <ROW><a>1</a><b>2</b></ROW>

> SELECT to_xml(named_struct('time', to_timestamp('2015-08-26', 'yyyy-MM-dd')), map('timestampFormat', 'dd/MM/yyyy'));
 <ROW><time>26/08/2015</time></ROW>

> SELECT to_xml(from_xml('<a>1</a><b>2</b>', 'variant'));
 <ROW><a>1</a><b>2</b></ROW>

Related functions

• : operator
• from_xml function
• schema_of_xml function
• from_json function
• schema_of_json function
• to_json function