The Interactive SQL OUTPUT statement supports an XML format that outputs query results to a generated XML file.

This generated XML file is encoded in UTF-8 and contains an embedded DTD. In the XML file, binary values are encoded in character data (CDATA) blocks with the binary data rendered as 2-hex-digit strings.

For more information about exporting XML with the OUTPUT statement, see OUTPUT statement [Interactive SQL].

The INPUT statement does not accept XML as a file format. However, you can import XML using the openxml procedure or the ADO.NET DataSet object.

For more information about importing XML, see Importing XML documents as relational data.