XML DOM - Processing Instructions

I'm having problems when using XML DOM to create XML documents because I want to specify a particular encoding and it doesn't appear to let me:

Code:

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Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument40
Dim pi As MSXML2.IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction

Set xmlDoc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument40
Set pi = xmlDoc.createProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0' encoding= 'ISO-8859-1'")
       
xmlDoc.appendChild pi

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But in my generated document, it looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

i.e. there is no encoding attribute.

Are you looking at the actual created xml document or are you looking at the xml from within your app via debug? I ask beacuse you won't see the encoding in your app but the output xml file will (at least should) contain it.

No, it's actually the other way around. The XML within the app via debug is fine. It is the outputted document that has lost the "encoding" attribute.

Are you doing a save? E.g. the following which works perfectly for me.

Code:

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Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument40
Dim pi As MSXML2.IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction

Set xmlDoc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument40
Set pi = xmlDoc.createProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0' encoding= 'ISO-8859-1'")
       
xmlDoc.appendChild pi
xmlDoc.save "C:\temp\test.xml"

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