Dear Pals,
I am creating a XML document through this code:

Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Text

Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim textWriter As New XmlTextWriter("e:\Emp.xml", _
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
textWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented
textWriter.WriteDocType("Employees", Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
textWriter.WriteComment("This file represents a fragment of Employees" & _
"database")
textWriter.WriteStartElement("Employees")
textWriter.WriteStartElement("Employee", Nothing)
textWriter.WriteElementString("FirstName", "John")
textWriter.WriteElementString("LastName", "Doe")
textWriter.WriteElementString("DateOfBirth", "08/09/1968")
textWriter.WriteElementString("DateOfJoining", "04/01/1992")
textWriter.WriteEndElement()
textWriter.WriteEndElement()

' Write the XML to file and close the textWriter
textWriter.Flush()
textWriter.Close()
Console.WriteLine("Press a key to exit.")
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module

Here is my output:

<!DOCTYPE Employees>
<!--This file represents a fragment of Employeesdatabase-->
<Employees>
<Employee>
<FirstName>John</FirstName>
<LastName>Doe</LastName>
<DateOfBirth>08/09/1968</DateOfBirth>
<DateOfJoining>04/01/1992</DateOfJoining>
</Employee>
</Employees>

Can anyone tell me how to add XML Declaration at the top of the document.
Thanks in Advance....

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ThankZZZ,
SamuelSudhakarJ

Dear SamuelSudhakarJ,
Add this to your code..
textWriter.WriteStartDocument(True)

It will create
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
on the top of your XML document.

for further reference, visit this link.
ms-help://MS.NETFrameworkSDK/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlXmlTextWriterClassWriteStartDocumentTopic.htm

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Thanks & Regards,
John Paul. A
MCP


"SamuelSudhakarJ" wrote:

> Dear Pals,
> I am creating a XML document through this code:
>
> Imports System
> Imports System.IO
> Imports System.Xml
> Imports System.Text
>
> Module Module1
> Sub Main()
> Dim textWriter As New XmlTextWriter("e:\Emp.xml", _
> System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
> textWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented
> textWriter.WriteDocType("Employees", Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
> textWriter.WriteComment("This file represents a fragment of Employees" & _
> "database")
> textWriter.WriteStartElement("Employees")
> textWriter.WriteStartElement("Employee", Nothing)
> textWriter.WriteElementString("FirstName", "John")
> textWriter.WriteElementString("LastName", "Doe")
> textWriter.WriteElementString("DateOfBirth", "08/09/1968")
> textWriter.WriteElementString("DateOfJoining", "04/01/1992")
> textWriter.WriteEndElement()
> textWriter.WriteEndElement()
>
> ' Write the XML to file and close the textWriter
> textWriter.Flush()
> textWriter.Close()
> Console.WriteLine("Press a key to exit.")
> Console.ReadLine()
> End Sub
> End Module
>
> Here is my output:
>
> <!DOCTYPE Employees>
> <!--This file represents a fragment of Employeesdatabase-->
> <Employees>
> <Employee>
> <FirstName>John</FirstName>
> <LastName>Doe</LastName>
> <DateOfBirth>08/09/1968</DateOfBirth>
> <DateOfJoining>04/01/1992</DateOfJoining>
> </Employee>
> </Employees>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to add XML Declaration at the top of the document.
> Thanks in Advance....
>
> --
> ThankZZZ,
> SamuelSudhakarJ