gusher52002 wrote on Jan 8^th, 2023 at 11:49pm:

Thank you for responding, fallow the step and when i go to view the saved file ,nothing show up but a blank white page in Explorer. Using windows 7 64bit

You should at least get something other than a blank white page.


gusher52002 wrote on Jan 8^th, 2023 at 11:52pm:

Also there's a box at the bottom of the window that states, Encoding and its listed as ANSI

In Windows 7/8/10, it should save from Windows Notepad without any problems. I never had a problem with it (I haven't done it Win 11 yet).

I see an encoding list consisting of ANSI, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-8, & UTF-8 with BOM, with UTF-8 always being the one I see when I first select Save As, and when I opened it after saving as a .XML, it looked fine. If ANSI was the default in Win 7, then that's probably what I saved it as.

My suggestion would be to create a new .TXT file (using the name of the file that you want to save you XML as), then change the file extension* from .TXT to .XML. After that, copy everything from the .TXT file that you've done all the XML coding in, and paste it in the newly created .XML file, then after that, simply select Save (not Save As), and you have your XML file.
The reason I suggest this is that with the change of the file type, once you change it to an XML file, it will automatically save with the correct encoding.


* To make the file extentions visible, you need to go to  Options (this should be somewhere on the top menu of the Folder) > View Tab > Un-Check (remove the tick from) the Hide extensions of known file types.