Thanks Anthony for your response;

Ok, I have taken up your suggestion. In my code I have built up an XML
tree which is a piece of code that I know to be working for other
purposes.

The important parts are these:

' Create the XML object
set objXMLdoc = Server.CreateObject ("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")

objXMLdoc.async = False
objXMLdoc.validateonParse = false
objXMLdoc.preserveWhiteSpace = false
objXMLdoc.resolveExternals = false

' ------------------ Create the root node named Message
set objXMLroot = objXMLdoc.createElement("Message")
objXMLdoc.appendChild(objXMLroot)

' Create the Order element
set objXMLOrderNode = objXMLDoc.createNode ("element", "Order","")
objXMLdoc.documentElement.appendChild(objXMLOrderNode)


{ Other leaves in the tree are inserted ....}


' Create the Certificate Codenode
set objItemNum = objXMLdoc.createNode("element", "CertificateCode","")
objItemNum.Text = "3"
objXMLOrderItemNode.appendChild(objItemNum)
set objItemNum = Nothing

dim xmlHttp

set xmlHttp = server.CreateObject  ("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")

objXMLdoc.xml.createProcessingInstruction ("xml", "version=""1.0""
encoding=""UTF-8""")

call xmlHttp.open ("POST", "http://server....",False)
xmlHttp.send (objXMLdoc.xml)

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but then I get this: Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub
/SAPReceiveIDOC/XML-izeRequesttoHTTP.asp, line 171, column 87
objXMLdoc.xml.createProcessingInstruction ("xml", "version=""1.0""
encoding=""UTF-8""")
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
^
The up arrow is actually positioned at the closing bracket.

I am not too familiair with ASP coding. I notice that on your example
sometimes there are no brackets where I have them but I picked those
up from other code samples.

So how exactly do I stick these processing instructions in the XML ?
And I should send objXMLdoc instead of without the objXMLdoc.xml ?


Enjoy your weekend, Jo