Using MSXML via C++, when I call IXMLDOMDocument::save
, empty XML elements will get an end tag, like this:
<root>
<child name="first">
</child>
</root>
But I want it saved as this:
<root>
<child name="first" />
</root>
What do I need to do to accomplish that?
DOM itself does that if there are no child nodes but I don't know why in your case it is doing like this.
If you want to do explicitly call Pretty Print on the DOM pointer.
#include <msxml2.h>
bool FormatDOMDocument (IXMLDOMDocument *pDoc, IStream *pStream)
{
// Create the writer
CComPtr <IMXWriter> pMXWriter;
if (FAILED (pMXWriter.CoCreateInstance(__uuidof (MXXMLWriter), NULL, CLSCTX_ALL)))
{
return false;
}
CComPtr <ISAXContentHandler> pISAXContentHandler;
if (FAILED (pMXWriter.QueryInterface(&pISAXContentHandler)))
{
return false;
}
CComPtr <ISAXErrorHandler> pISAXErrorHandler;
if (FAILED (pMXWriter.QueryInterface (&pISAXErrorHandler)))
{
return false;
}
CComPtr <ISAXDTDHandler> pISAXDTDHandler;
if (FAILED (pMXWriter.QueryInterface (&pISAXDTDHandler)))
{
return false;
}
if (FAILED (pMXWriter ->put_omitXMLDeclaration (VARIANT_FALSE)) ||
FAILED (pMXWriter ->put_standalone (VARIANT_TRUE)) ||
FAILED (pMXWriter ->put_indent (VARIANT_TRUE)) ||
FAILED (pMXWriter ->put_encoding (L"UTF-8")))
{
return false;
}
CComPtr <ISAXXMLReader> pSAXReader;
if (FAILED (pSAXReader.CoCreateInstance (__uuidof (SAXXMLReader), NULL, CLSCTX_ALL)))
{
return false;
}
if (FAILED (pSAXReader ->putContentHandler (pISAXContentHandler)) ||
FAILED (pSAXReader ->putDTDHandler (pISAXDTDHandler)) ||
FAILED (pSAXReader ->putErrorHandler (pISAXErrorHandler)) ||
FAILED (pSAXReader ->putProperty (
L"http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", CComVariant (pMXWriter))) ||
FAILED (pSAXReader ->putProperty (
L"http://xml.org/sax/properties/declaration-handler", CComVariant (pMXWriter))))
{
return false;
}
// Perform the write
return SUCCEEDED (pMXWriter ->put_output (CComVariant (pStream))) &&
SUCCEEDED (pSAXReader ->parse (CComVariant (pDoc)));
}