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David
David

Reputation: 2241

What is the easiest way of removing the attribute of a node of an xml file in vb?

I'm familiar with using the MSXML2 library for reading xml files. But is there an easy way of editing a particular node. Say I have the following line of code that selects a dataroot element that has the attribute generated:

Dim oDoc as MSXML2.DOMDocument
Dim oNode as MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode    

Set oDoc = ... //open xml file here//
Set oNode = oDoc.selectSingleNode("/root/dataroot/[@generated]")

I want to be able to remove the generated attribute from the selected node and save the change back to the original file.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4192

Answers (2)

dunc
dunc

Reputation: 93

Remove the attribute from the Attributes collection of the node in question:

oNode.Attributes.removeNamedItem "generated"

Upvotes: 4

Richard Schneider
Richard Schneider

Reputation: 35477

To remove an attribute from an node:

oNode.removeAttribute("generated");

To save the changes:

oDoc.save("changed.xml")

Upvotes: 0

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