On Jul 10, 4:44 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Carol wrote:
> > I got the following xml from my code:
> > <Template><a><b></b></a></Template>
>
> > I just want to replace the outside tag name to "Message"
> > <Message><a><b></b></a></Message>
>
> > I'm using VC and msxml2. Is there any easy way to set the name of an
> > xml element, just like the XmlElement.Name{get,set} in C#?
>
> You are wrong about C# and XmlElement, see
> <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Xml.XmlElement.Name.aspx>
> there is only a getter for that property.
>
> The same holds for MSXML or other DOM implementations. So you need to
> create a new element and replace the old one with that e.g. (JScript syntax)
>    var message = xmlDocument.createElement("Message");
>    var replacedNode = xmlDocument.replaceChild(message,
> xmlDocument.documentElement);
>    while (replacedNode.hasChildNodes()) {
>      message.appendChild(replacedNode.firstChild);
>    }
>
> --
>
>         Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Thanks, I see. What I strongly believed turns out to be wrong... bad
memory.