AsGml - geography Data Type

**APPLIES TO:** SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

Returns the Geography Markup Language (GML) representation of a geography instance.

For more information on Geography Markup Language, see the Open Geospatial Consortium Specification: OGC Specifications, Geography Markup Language.

Syntax

  
.AsGml ( )  

Return Types

SQL Server return type: xml

CLR return type: SqlXml

Remarks

Examples

The following example creates a LineString instance and uses AsGML() to return the GML description of the instance.

DECLARE @g geography;  
SET @g = geography::STGeomFromText('LINESTRING(-122.360 47.656, -122.343 47.656)', 4326);  
SELECT @g.AsGml();  

This method returns the description as a LineString instance.

<LineString xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/gml"><posList>47.656 -122.36 47.656 -122.343</posList></LineString>  

See Also

Extended Methods on Geography Instances