Where does the XML version tag get added?

[Mthales]

Hi there,

I am trying to work with an MSXML2.DOMDocument30. I define my variable then I set it as a new instance of MSXML2.DOMDocument30 and start adding nodes to it then save the document.

When I examine the resulting document I was expecting to see <?xml version="1.0"?> at the top of the file and then all the nodes I added but it's not there.

So my question is simply how do I add the version tag to the top of the document?

Thanks for any help

M

 

[mattKnight]

It mave not be correct, but it works for me

Dim xmlPI As IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction

With New DOMDocument40
    'Creete Processing instruction
    strVersion = "version=" & Chr$(34) & "1.0" & Chr$(34) & " encoding=" & Chr$(34) & "UTF-8" & Chr$(34)

    Set xmlPI = .createProcessingInstruction("xml", strVersion)
    .appendChild xmlPI
end with
'don't froget to write file...

Take Care

Matt
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[Mthales]

Thanks very much for that Matt it does work fine. However I did however think there was a way that added in this tag without having to explicitly define it like this.

I'm asking because my code used to produce xml with this tag at the start and now I've done something and it doesn't any more. I'd never added it like this before and thought there was some way I was getting the newly created xml document to put this in for itself.

Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

M

 

[chiph]

Have you tried adding attributes to the documentElement property? It's the root element of the document.

Chip H.


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[strongm]

I do it the way Matt shows - or at least a minor variant as:

Set objPI = objDOM.createProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'")
objDOM.insertBefore objPI, objDOM.childNodes(0)

I'm pretty certain I got this from an XML site rather than coming up with it myself for a change, but I'm afraid I can't remember where so I can't credit it properly