PowerBuilder MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0 encoding attribute gone

Question

I have a very simple PowerBuilder code:

OLEObject lole_DOM
lole_DOM = CREATE OLEObject
lole_DOM.ConnectToNewObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0")
lole_DOM.LoadXML('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root/>')
MessageBox("", String(lole_DOM.XML))
DESTROY lole_DOM

And the result I get:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root/>

Where did encoding attribute go? Not sure who to blame, PowerBuilder or MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0, any ideas?

Using PowerBuilder version 11.5.1 Build 5097

This may help: http://stackoverflow.com/a/542040/317266 – Seki Sep 17 '15 at 14:49 — Seki, Sep 17 '15 at 14:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '15 at 15:11

This is by design. As stated in the "Remarks" section of the documentation for the xml property:

The xml property always returns a Unicode string. That is, the xml property for DOMDocument converts the document from its original encoding to Unicode. As a result, the original encoding attribute is removed. For example, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> appears in the xml property as follows.
<?xml version="1.0"?>

In constrast, if you save the document into a file with save() you will see that the processing instruction is complete in the file, and the file is encoded accordingly.

PowerBuilder MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0 encoding attribute gone

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