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On 29 Aug 2001 10:35:25 -0700, ComCity wrote: > Well, this is not what I read. I read that the encoding part of the > processing instruction is something that will be used eventually by the > server I'm sending it to. Right now, I'm just creating the document from > scratch so there really is "no" encoding. I want to set the encoding so > that the eventually server will be able to understand the XML document....it > expects ISO-8859-1. This seems a bit like a chicken and the egg.... The XML Declaration is not a processing instruction, as others have noted. However, MSXML 3.0 (and I think 4.0) treats it as a processing instruction. You can assign an XML Declaration to an MSXML DOM by adding a processing instruction to the DOM _before_ adding anything else: var pi=xmldoc.CreateProcessingInstruction("xml"," version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'"); xmldoc.appendChild(pi); This PI must be the first thing in the DOM - no whitespace, nothing else - or MSXML will ignore it. I don't currently have a functional MSXML parser, so this description is based on old notes, but hopefully it will help. There is also an excellent book, Unicode: A Primer, by Tony Graham, which explains a lot of encoding issues, though it isn't focused on XML. Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com
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