dynamically generating XML prob

[natkhatbandar]

Hi,
I am generating an XML document dynamically using DOM.
I am creating an element using IXMLDOMDocument::createElement and then calling IXMLDOMElement::appendChild for the parent element. For attributes, I use IXMLDOMDocument2::createAttribute and then
IXMLDOMElement::setAttributeNode.

My problem is that for each of the elements, an additional "xmlns" attribute is added with no value (xmlns=""). How can I avoid getting this extra attribute from being inserted? Note that I am not putting a prefix for the element names.

--- Sample XML generated-----------------
<MyRoot xmlns="http://www.xyz.com/abc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.xyz.com/abc abc.xsd"> <MyElement1 xmlns="" attrib1="v1"/> .. ..
</MyRoot>

 

[Martin Honnen]

I am generating an XML document dynamically using DOM.
I am creating an element using IXMLDOMDocument::createElement and then calling IXMLDOMElement::appendChild for the parent element. For attributes, I use IXMLDOMDocument2::createAttribute and then
IXMLDOMElement::setAttributeNode.

My problem is that for each of the elements, an additional "xmlns" attribute is added with no value (xmlns=""). How can I avoid getting this extra attribute from being inserted?

Sounds as if you are using MSXML, with MSXML you should use createNode(1, 'element-name', 'namespaceURI') if you want to create elements in a namespace. If you use createElement('element-name') then the element is created in the null namespace and thus when the document is serialized the <element-name xmlns=""> needs to be added to properly serialize the document.

So you want (JScript syntax)
var rootElement = xmlDocument.createNode(
1,
'MyRoot',
'http://www.xyz.com/abc'
);
var myElement = xmlDocument.createNode(
1,
'MyElement1',
'http://www.xyz.com/abc'
);

If you are not using MSXML but a W3C DOM Level 2 compliant implementation then you need to use var rootElement = xmlDocument.createElementNS( 'http://www.xyz.com/abc', 'MyRoot' ); var myElement = xmlDocument.createElementNS( 'http://www.xyz.com/abc', 'MyElement1' );