Without .NET, the method Martin mentioned is the way to go.
-Naraen
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"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> Arthur Hoornweg wrote:
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> > NaraendiraKumar R. R. wrote:
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> >> Looks like you are using the MSXML 3.0 or 4.0 via COM?[/color]
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> >
> > Yes.
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> >>
> >> If you are doing this from a .NET environment, you can automate the
> >> indentation by passing the string through an XML Writer.
> >>
> >> If you just need it for viewing purposes, you could use some XML[/color][/color][/color]
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> >> VS.NET does a decent job. Also XML Spy & Cooktop.
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> >
> > Just a second. So something as basic as "human legible XML" is
> > not possible with MSXML 3.0?
> >
> > Any other incarnations of MSXML that do better?[/color]
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> It is possible, for instance using XSLT, here is a JScript/WSH example
> using Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0 to first create a document in memory, then
> a simple XSLT stylesheet is used to "pretty-print" that document and
> then it is saved
>
> var xmlDocument = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0');
> xmlDocument.appendChild(xmlDocument.createElement( 'gods'));
> var element = xmlDocument.createElement('god');
> element.setAttribute('name', 'Kibo');
> xmlDocument.documentElement.appendChild(element);
> element = xmlDocument.createElement('god');
> element.setAttribute('name', 'Xibo');
> xmlDocument.documentElement.appendChild(element);
> WScript.Echo(xmlDocument.xml);
>
> var indentedDocument = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0');
> var xslIndenter = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0');
> xslIndenter.async = false;
> xslIndenter.load('test20040406Xsl.xml');
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> xmlDocument.transformNodeToObject(xslIndenter, indentedDocument);
>
> WScript.Echo(indentedDocument.xml);
>
> indentedDocument.save('test20040406.xml');
>
> Output shows the original document first and then the indented one
>
> <gods><god name="Kibo"/><god name="Xibo"/></gods>
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <gods>
> <god name="Kibo"></god>
> <god name="Xibo"></god>
> </gods>
>
> The simple XSLT stylesheet is
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
>
> <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen
>
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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