Example

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var newRoot;
newRoot = xmlDoc.createElement("root");
xmlDoc.documentElement = newRoot;
alert(xmlDoc.xml);

Example

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim newRoot As IXMLDOMElement
Set newRoot = xmlDoc.createElement("root")
Set xmlDoc.documentElement = newRoot
MsgBox xmlDoc.xml

Example

The following C/C++ example displays the entire XML document from its root element.

#import "msxml5.dll"
using namespace MSXML2;

inline void TESTHR( HRESULT _hr ) 
   { if FAILED(_hr) throw(_hr); }

void XMLDOMElementSample()
{
   try {
      IXMLDOMDocumentPtr docPtr;
      IXMLDOMElementPtr ElementPtr;

      //init
      TESTHR(CoInitialize(NULL)); 
      TESTHR(docPtr.CreateInstance("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0"));

      // Load a document.
      _variant_t varXml("C:\\book.xml");
      _variant_t varOut((bool)TRUE);
      varOut = docPtr->load(varXml);
      if ((bool)varOut == FALSE)
         throw(0);
      ElementPtr = docPtr->documentElement;
      MessageBox(NULL, ElementPtr->xml, _T("Document from its root"), MB_OK);
   } catch(...)
   {
      MessageBox(NULL, _T("Exception occurred"), _T("Error"), MB_OK);
   }
   CoUninitialize();
}

Header and IDL files: msxml2.h, msxml2.idl