Create XML Using the MSXML Object Library

Category:

ASP, HTML and XML

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Beginning

Author:

Andrew Park

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6

More information:

This code shows you how to create simple xml document. Refer to comments for further details.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
' (None)

Code:

' This procedure creates XML document
' and saves it to disk.
' Requires msxml.dll (Go to Project --> References and
' and choose Microsoft XML version 2.0, or whatever the
' current version you have installed)
' The example given below will write the following XML
' documents.
'
' <Family>
'    <Member Relationship="Father">
'       <Name>Some Guy</name>
'    </member>
' </family>
'
'but it should be clear how to modify the code
'to create your own documents

Private Sub Create_XML()
   
   Dim objDom As DOMDocument
   Dim objRootElem As IXMLDOMElement
   Dim objMemberElem As IXMLDOMElement
   Dim objMemberRel As IXMLDOMAttribute
   Dim objMemberName As IXMLDOMElement
   
   Set objDom = New DOMDocument
   
   ' Creates root element
   Set objRootElem = objDom.createElement("Family")
   objDom.appendChild objRootElem
   
   ' Creates Member element
   Set objMemberElem = objDom.createElement("Member")
   objRootElem.appendChild objMemberElem
   
   ' Creates Attribute to the Member Element
   Set objMemberRel = objDom.createAttribute("Relationship")
   objMemberRel.nodeValue = "Father"
   objMemberElem.setAttributeNode objMemberRel
   
   ' Create element under Member element, and
   ' gives value "some guy"
   Set objMemberName = objDom.createElement("Name")
   objMemberElem.appendChild objMemberName
   objMemberName.Text = "Some Guy"

' Saves XML data to disk.
   objDom.save ("c:\temp\andrew.xml")
End Sub