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I want to be able to change an XML node value from WiX. The XML structure looks like this:

<settings xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <setting name="setting1">
        <value xsi:type="xsd:boolean">false</value>
    </setting>
    <setting name="setting2">
        <value xsi:type="xsd:string">hello</value>
    </setting>
</settings>

I want to change the string value of setting2 to something else. I'm trying to use XmlConfig and the code that is not working looks like this: 

<util:XmlConfig Id='SetSetting2' File='[#defaultSettings.xml]'
                Action='create' Node='value'
                ElementPath="//settings/setting[\[]@name='setting2'[\]]/value"
                Name='value' Value="test"
                On='install' PreserveModifiedDate='yes'
                VerifyPath="//settings/setting[\[]@name='setting2'[\]]/value/"/>

But this produces XML looking like this:

<setting name="setting2">
    <value xsi:type="xsd:string" value="test"></value>
</setting>

How do I make it look like the following?

<setting name="setting2">
    <value xsi:type="xsd:string">test</value>
</setting>
Peter Mortensen
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Try omitting the Name attribute. Like this:

<util:XmlConfig Id='SetSetting2' 
                File='[#defaultSettings.xml]'
                Action='create' 
                Node='value'
                ElementPath="//settings/setting[\[]@name='setting2'[\]]/@value"
                Value="test"
                On='install' 
                PreserveModifiedDate='yes'
                VerifyPath="//settings/setting[\[]@name='setting2'[\]]/@value/"/>

See also XmlConfig Element. For attribute Name it says:

Not setting this attribute causes the element's text value to be set. Otherwise this specified the attribute name that is set.

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