<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="sql-extension" page="insert" subpage=""/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: sql:insert and sql:column</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: sql:insert and sql:column"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>sql:insert and sql:column</h1> <p><code>sql:insert</code> performs an SQL INSERT statement. This causes a row to be added to the table identified by the <code>table</code> attribute. The <code>table</code> attribute holds the table name as a constant string; it is not possible to set the name of the table (or of the columns) at run-time.</p> <p>There is a mandatory <code>connection</code> attribute, used as in the <code>sql:query</code> instruction described <a class="bodylink" href="../sql-extension/query.xml">above</a>.</p> <p><code>sql:column</code> is used as a child element of <code>sql:insert</code>, and identifies the name and value of a column to be included in the INSERT statement. The name of the column is identified by the <code>name</code> attribute, the value may be indicated either by evaluating the expression contained in the <code>select</code> attribute, or as the expanded contents of the <code>sql:column</code> element. The value is always interpreted as a string. (Remember this is purely a demonstration of extensibility, in a real system there would be a need to cater for SQL columns of other data types).</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="update.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>