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<refentry id="SX-H-1">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>XML from Data Base Examples</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo>tutorial</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>Making a Forest of XML elements by XMLAGG() function</refname>
<refpurpose>XMLAGG() function</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 id="SX-H-1a">
<title>XMLAGG() function. Overview</title>
<para>
XMLAGG is aggregate function that produces a forest of XML elements from the given list of xml elements.
It concatenates the values returned from one column of multiple rows, unlike <function>XMLCONCAT</function>,
which concatenates the values returned from multiple columns in the same row.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="SX-H-1b">
<title>Example 1</title>
<para>This example produces a forest of all 'Name' of the employees having
the title 'Sales Representative' and places it into one top-level element:</para>
<programlisting>
select XMLELEMENT ('SalesRepresentatives',
XMLAGG (XMLELEMENT ('Name', "FirstName", ' ', "LastName")) )
from "Demo"."demo"."Employees"
where "Title"='Sales Representative';
</programlisting>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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