For XML Explicit

k. I'm going crazy here. I have some for xml explicit sql working (created a
test against the adventureworks database) but how can I get the results of
this sql into an xml variable. I have tried inserting it into a table
variable or setting an xml variable equal to it...I can't get it to
working...any help given is appreciated.

Select 1 as Tag
,null as Parent
,null as [Audit!1]
,'Test' as [Audit!1!type]
,null as [TestText!2]
,null as [Contacts!3]
,null as [ContectId!4]
Union All
Select 2
,1
,null
,null
,'This is test text'
,null
,null
Union All
Select 3
,1
,null
,null
,null
,null
,null
Union All
Select 4
,3
,null
,null
,null
,null
,ContactId
from Person.Contact
where contactId between 1 and 10
For XML Explicit