Hi Martin,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I made both changes as you suggested, but it 
did not have any effect - the XML that was created was identical to the 
original version of the code, and the error message still occurs.  What is 
even more bizarre is if I output the XML as a string right before I perform 
the first validation, the XML is perfectly fine (the schema declaration is 
there), but it still gives the message that the schema declaration was not 
found.

Regards,
Martin

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> MartinL wrote:
> 
> >     Dim atrNSNode As IXMLDOMAttribute
> >     Set atrNSNode = xmlDocument.createNode(NODE_ATTRIBUTE, "xmlns:xsi", 
> > "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance")
> 
> The namespace for namespace declaration attributes (i.e. xmlns:prefix) 
> is http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/ so the last argument above should be
>    "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"
> 
> Try whether that solves it, I haven't looked at the other code in detail.
> 
> 
> >     Set elmBook = xmlDocument.createElement("b:Book")
> 
> If you want to create XML with namespaces with MSXML then I strongly 
> suggest to use createNode as that is the only namespace aware method 
> that MSXML provides. So change _all_ those createElement calls to e.g.
>    createNode(1, "b:book", "http://foo.com")
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>