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Hello,

I want to create in AL an xml document with a custom prefix attribute in the root tag, like this :

...

</root>

How can I do that in a codeunit in AL ? I tried different methods on XmlElement variables, but couldn't have the above result.

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Hi

If I have been able to understand you well, surely these links can help you, I hope so.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-using-namespaces-with-xmlports

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/properties/devenv-namespaceprefix-property

Best regards

Gerardo

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I'm not using xmlport to create my xml. I'm using a codeunit, with XmlDocument.Create and XmlElement.Create() methods. SO I can't use namespace prefix property in this case.

With what you suggested me, I could have done something like this :

<root XMLNS:prefix=/http://myschemaurl/>

...

</root>

But what I want is to set an attribute in my root tag something different from xmlns, like this :

<root XSI:prefix=/http://myschemaurl/>

...

</root>

Since the attribute name is not 'XMLNS', it is not a namespace anymore, just an attribute.

Any idea how i can do that in AL ?

Thank you

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Gerardo Rentería Ga... 25,157 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi

I haven't come across this topic, I found this. I keep searching and I share with you.

Solved: Remove namespaces from child XML element in business central (dynamics.com)

Best Regards

Gerardo

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Hi,

I have spent a lot of time investigating the same issue lately. The nearest I found was to use the XMLAttribute variable with 3 parameters (XmlAttribute.Create(Text, Text, Text) Method - Business Central | Microsoft Learn), but this also does not work, as it returns a default prefix value (p1, p2 etc) and ignores any attempt to override the prefix value from my end.

I ran out of time in the end, and decided to solve this the old fashioned way by creating my root as text first then adding it to the XMLDocument:

local procedure CreateXMLRoot(var XMLDoc: XmlDocument)

var

XmlText: Text;

begin

XmlText := '<melding xmlns="urn:***********:v1" '

+ 'xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" '

+ 'xsi:schemaLocation="urn:***********:v1 ***********_v1_0.xsd ">'

+ '</melding>';

XmlDocument.ReadFrom(XmlText, XMLDoc);

end;

Don't know if this will help you, but it seems to work so far in my testing.

It's almost ridiculous to have to spend so much time on such an old fashioned file format, but people are still using xml, so we must perservere :)

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