>> I have a problem:
>> IXMLDOMDocumentPtr::save don't format the output in a nice humanreadable
>> format like:
>>
>> <topLevel>
>>     <nextLevel>
>>         <myData> data </myData>
>>     </nextLevel>
>> </topLevel>
>>
>> but more like this:
>> <topLevel><nextLevel><myData> data </myData></nextLevel></topLevel>

> If you load from a file with proper formatting and indentation then I am 
> sure if you set
>   xmlDocument.preserveWhiteSpace = true;
> before loading and then later save that the formatting is preserved.
> However if you construct a new document from scratch using DOM methods 
> (e.g. createElement, createTextNode, appendChild) then indeed you need 
> to ensure yourself that the document is properly formatted for saving. 
> One way to do that is to use XSLT to format the document, this older 
> post contains an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet doing that:
> <http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.xml/msg/3545b35d0886d49c?dmode=source> 
> 
> Can't help you with C++ but perhaps you are able to transcribe the 
> JScript code to C++ yourself.
> 
Thanks for your response, Martin
Indeed I create the structure from scratch, so unfortunatly I can't use 
.preserveWhiteSpace
I have an xsd scheme that I can pump out to the working folder, could 
that be of use?