Get XML String Without the Declaration

[rwunderl]

Is it possible to get the XML string from a DOM reference without the "<?xml ... ?>" node at the beginning? I'm having to manually remove the XML declaration using a Match Pattern function, which seems tedious and unnecessary. I'm guessing there is no way to do this, as the parser just does what it does. But perhaps there is a DOM property for this?

The attached example implements the following test code:

And gives the following result:

You can see that the intermediate result contains the XML declaration, which I then manually remove to get the output string equal to the input string.

Curiously, when you use Flatten to XML, the string does not contain the XML declaration.

[wiebe@CARYA · Accepted solution]

Not entirely sure. but maybe like this?

Do close the document ref though.

[Yamaeda]

Use the 1st Child property. 😉

[rwunderl]

Works like a champ!

Not immediately intuitive, but the solution is at least plainly within the XML API.

Thanks for the quick fix.