Microsoft XML DOM output has no CR/LF

load the file into CUESoft's Exml Editor (freeware) - it will structure the file in the "source view".

you can get it at:

http://www.cuesoft.com

Hope this helps

Cheers
MicOfLZ

That's great for viewing it - I can do the same thing by opening it in IE. But what I need to do is to have the MS DOM write it out in a readable format in the first place.

we're using version 3 of the parser and we don't have that problem ....

xmldoc.preserveWhiteSpace = True

I think you need to set it to true right after creating the object but before adding anything

No, I tried using the preserveWhiteSpace parameter, with no effect. That parameter is used to preserve white space inside the tags, I'm looking to create white space between different tags.

Here is some VB code to demonstrate what is happening. I have referenced MSXML3.DLL in the project.

  Dim XMLdoc As New MSXML2.DOMDocument30
  Dim root As IXMLDOMElement
  Dim newNode As IXMLDOMNode
  Dim Config As IXMLDOMNode
  Dim docFragment As IXMLDOMDocumentFragment
  Dim CfgVal As IXMLDOMElement
   
  Set root = XMLdoc.documentElement
 
  Set newNode = XMLdoc.createNode("processinginstruction", "xml", "")
  Set Config = XMLdoc.appendChild(newNode)

  XMLdoc.appendChild XMLdoc.createElement("Main")
     
  Set Config = XMLdoc.createNode(NODE_ELEMENT, "Node1", "")
  XMLdoc.lastChild.appendChild Config

  Set docFragment = XMLdoc.createDocumentFragment
 
  Set CfgVal = XMLdoc.createElement("Element1")
  CfgVal.Text = "This is element 1"
  docFragment.appendChild CfgVal
  Set CfgVal = XMLdoc.createElement("Element2")
  CfgVal.Text = "This is element 2"
  docFragment.appendChild CfgVal
 
  Config.appendChild docFragment
 
  XMLdoc.save "c:\temp\test.xml"

The XML file created by this code looks like the following. Everything except the version is crammed onto one line:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Main><Node1><Element1>This is element 1</Element1><Element2>This is element 2</Element2></Node1></Main>

Put a line

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

or in your case it might be

  <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
 
Just after the namespace declarations.

Sorry, didnt read the question properly - that only works when you use XSL to create the document (since it's an XSL command!)

I think then you'll have to write a function that writes the DOM object to a textfile trough the filesystem object.

Cheers
MicOfLZ

hi

does my comment correspond to your question ?

MicOfLZ

Your idea, and the code above basically circumvents the Microsoft DOM "save" method and does it itself, iterating through the tree and writing it out manually. I could do that, but I was kind of hoping for a kind of "xmldoc.crlf = True" thing. All of the MS examples show the code written out as formatted and indented nicely, so I'm wondering if there is still something I'm missing.

> All of the MS examples show the code written out as formatted and indented nicely, so I'm wondering if there is still something I'm missing.

Sure. You're missing that MSXML doesn't attempt to make the XML it produces readable. You need to make it human-readable, yourself. And please, give an A next time.

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Not quite what I was looking for, but the end result is the same.

thank you for finalising the question, Scott =)