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Ian Hinson · Guest

Hi,
I'm using the DOMDocument wrapper component (created by importing msxml.dll
as MSXML_TLB) to produce an XML document programmatically.
But the output I get looks like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Root xmlns="http://mynamespace.com">
<Child xmlns="">value</Child>
</Root>
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The problem is the unwanted (xmlns="") attribute on the child node.

The code that produced this is listed below.
(Variable "dom" is a TDOMDocument component that wraps MS's
IXMLDOMDocument.)

var
instr: IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction;
root, node: IXMLDOMElement;
attr: IXMLDOMAttribute;
node: IXMLDOMElement;
begin
instr := dom.createProcessingInstruction('xml', 'version="1.0"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"');
dom.DefaultInterface.appendChild(instr);

root := dom.createElement('Root');
attr := dom.createAttribute('xmlns');
attr.value := 'http://mynamespace.com';
root.setAttributeNode(attr);
dom.DefaultInterface.appendChild(root);

root.appendChild(dom.createTextNode(#13#10#9));
node := dom.createElement('Child');
node.text := 'value';
root.appendChild(node);
root.appendChild(dom.createTextNode(#13#10));
dom.save('xml.txt');
end;

The problem does not occur if I remove the namespace attribute from the root
node.
Is this a problem with MS's implementation of IXMLDOMDocument in msxml.dll
or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Ian