How to include a double quote in XML using .setattribute?

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I'm trying to use the setattribute function to create a "noNamespaceschemalocation" attribute in an XML document but can't figure out the syntax for a get a double quote rather than it being converted to '&quote;', below is the code I am using; does anyone one what I should be doing?

{

XmlDocument xmlDoc;

XmlElement xmlTransaction;

;

xmlDoc = XmlDocument::newBlank();
xmlTransaction = xmlDoc.createElement('transaction');
xmlTransaction.setAttribute('xmlns:xsi', 'www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="import_spec.xsd');

The following is created from the above code:

I want to create the following:

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You call setAttribute() only once, although you're trying to add two attributes (xsi and noNamespaceSchemaLocation), which is clearly a problem.

For the latter attribute, use setAttribute2(). Its third argument is value, where you should set import_spec.xsd.

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Thanks for the response Martin. I have tried pretty much every response doing a Google search and have tried what you suggested and it does come close, see below.

My code:

xmlDoc = XmlDocument::newBlank();

xmlTransaction = xmlDoc.createElement('transaction');

xmlTransaction.setAttribute('xmlns:xsi', 'www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance&;);

xmlTransaction.setAttribute2('noNamespaceSchemaLocation', 'xsi', 'import_spec.xsd');

The result:

<transaction xmlns:xsi="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance" p2:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="import_spec.xsd" xmlns:p2="xsi">

I need:

<transaction xmlns:xsi="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="import_spec.xsd">

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The problem is that the second argument of setAttribute2() has a wrong value. It should be the namespace URI and when you use 'xsi', the application considers it as a new namespace with URI = xsi, adds a declaration for it (xmlns:p2="xsi") and uses this new namespace for your attribute.
The right code is this:

XmlDocument xmlDoc = XmlDocument::newBlank(); XmlElement xmlTransaction = xmlDoc.createElement('transaction'); xmlDoc.appendChild(xmlTransaction); xmlTransaction.setAttribute('xmlns:xsi', 'www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance'); xmlTransaction.setAttribute2('noNamespaceSchemaLocation', 'www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance', 'import_spec.xsd'); info(xmlDoc.xml());

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Thanks Martin, that was exactly what I needed. I appreciate the help.

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