How to create XML file without the first line of <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Hello,

if I use:

DOMnode = readxml(my_file_name_source);
writexml(DOMnode , my_file_name_target);

I'll get the same XML file with the addition of:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

How can I create my new file without that auto generated line?

THANKS

Answer 1

[Voss]

You could do something like this, which first writes the xml file as usual (with the first line) using xmlwrite(), then reads the file into a variable, removes the first line, and writes the rest back to the same file.

DOMnode = xmlread(my_file_name_source);
xmlwrite(DOMnode , my_file_name_target);

% read the xml file
fid = fopen(my_file_name_target,'r');
data = fread(fid);
fclose(fid);

% remove the first line
idx = find(data == newline(),1);
if ~isempty(idx)
    data(1:idx) = [];
end

% write the remaining contents back to the same file
fid = fopen(my_file_name_target,'w');
fwrite(fid,data);
fclose(fid);

[Mark Golberg]

THANKS !!!