Thanks very much for your help. I'm trying this out.

Regards,
Craig
"Edward Wohlman" <eddwo@h...> wrote in message
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> Sorry, you wanted delphi and I gave you VB, but the principal is the same.
>
> > The code snippet in my last post will do the whole job for you
> >
> > 'you already have this part
> > dim outmsxml as new domdocument
> > outMSXML.loadXML('<?xml version = ''1.0''?>')
> > newNode :=
> > outMSXML.createNode(1,'NLIS_MESSAGE','http://www.www.www/NS/2001-01-10')
> > outMSXML.appendChild(newNode)
> > dim rootnode as ixmldomelement
> > rootNode := outMSXML.DocumentElement
> >
> >
> > 'this part will create a new node called NLIS_HEADER
> > dim headernode as ixmldomelement
> > set headernode
> > =outMSXML.createnode(1,"NLIS_HEADER","http://www.www.www/NS/2001-01-10")
> >
> >
> > 'this part will add that node as a child of the NLIS_MESSAGE node
> > rootnode.appenchild(headernode)
> >
> > 'this part will create a new node called INTERFACE_VERSION_NUMBER
> > dim ivnnode as ixmldomelement
> >  ivnnode
> >
>
=outmsxml.createnode(1,"INTERFACE_VERSION_NUMBER","http://www.www.www/NS/200
> > 1-01-10")
> >
> > 'this part will add that node as a child of the NLIS_HEADER node
> >  headernode.appendchild(ivnnode)
> >
> > 'this part sets the value of interface_version number to 6.0
> >  ivnnode.text = "6.0"
> >
> > that will give you your complete fragment
> >
> > <NLIS_MESSAGE xmlns="http://www.www.www/NS/2001-01-10">
> >      <NLIST_HEADER>
> >             <INTERFACE_VERSION_NUMBER>6.0</INTERFACE_VERSION_NUMBER>
> >     </NLIST_HEADER>
> > </NLIS_MESSAGE>
> >
> >
>
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