Example

The following script example creates an IXMLDOMText object (objText), and inserts it before the first child of the root. The insertBefore method returns another IXMLDOMText object, objText1.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var root;
var objText;
var objText1;
var objNode;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   root = xmlDoc.documentElement;
   objText = xmlDoc.createTextNode("Hello World");
   objText1 = root.insertBefore(objText, root.firstChild);
   alert(root.xml);
}

Example

The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMText object (objText), and inserts it before the first child of the root. The insertBefore method returns another IXMLDOMText object, objText1.

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim root As IXMLDOMElement
Dim objText As IXMLDOMText
Dim objNode As IXMLDOMNode
xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml")
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
   Dim myErr
   Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
   MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
Else
   Set root = xmlDoc.documentElement
   Set objText = xmlDoc.createTextNode("Hello World")
   Set objText1 = root.insertBefore(objText, root.firstChild)
   MsgBox root.xml
End If

Example

The following C/C++ example creates and appends a new text node to the root document element.

#import "msxml5.dll"
using namespace MSXML2;

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


void XMLDOMText()
{
   try {
      IXMLDOMDocumentPtr docPtr;
      IXMLDOMNodePtr DOMNodePtr;
      IXMLDOMNamedNodeMapPtr DOMNamedNodeMapPtr;

      //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);
      
      DOMNodePtr = docPtr->createTextNode("Hello World");

      docPtr->documentElement->appendChild(DOMNodePtr);

      MessageBox(NULL, _bstr_t(docPtr->xml), _T("New Document"), MB_OK);

   } catch(...)
   {
      MessageBox(NULL, _T("Exception occurred"), _T("Error"), MB_OK);
   }
   CoUninitialize();
}

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