Question: I have a data stored in a xml column and need a comma-separated list of child nodes. Using script below, I can only get "A B C". Please help me get "A,B,C" using xquery (Simple replace of space with comma does not help because we have data with spaces inside).

```
create table Temp12345 (col1 xml)
go

insert into Temp12345 (col1)
values('<fd><field i="22"><v>A</v><v>B</v><v>C</v></field></fd>')
go

select col1.value('(/fd/field[@i=22])[1] ', 'NVarchar(Max)') 
from Temp12345
go

drop table Temp12345
go

```

Answer: 
Try this:

```
SELECT
    STUFF((SELECT 
              ',' + fd.v.value('(.)[1]', 'varchar(10)')
           FROM 
              Temp12345
           CROSS APPLY
              col1.nodes('/fd/field/v') AS fd(v)
           FOR XML PATH('')
          ), 1, 1, '')

```

This gives me `A,B,C` - does it work for you, too?
In a full complain XQuery processor you could use just:

```
(/fd/field[@i=22])[1]/string-join(*,',')

```