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- From: "Britt, James" <james.britt@rez.com>
- To: "'xml-dev@ic.ac.uk'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:05:52 -0700
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Dahlstedt [mailto:Robin_Dahlstedt@pml.com]
>Im building an XML document in C++ using the COM interfaces provided by
>Microsoft. Does anybody know of a way to append the DOCTYPE
>declaration to
>the xml file? Ive tried to get around the problem by creating
>an element
>with the tagname "!DOCTYPE", but apparently, the boys and girls down at
>Microsoft already thought of that (ie: it didn't work). From
>the looks of
>things, I believe that Microsoft purposefully left this
>ability out...help!
And well they should, since the doctype attribute is read-only.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html#i-Document
where it purposefully states:
"The DOM Level 1 does not support editing the Document Type Declaration,
therefore docType cannot be altered in any way."
James
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