Hello,
I am opening an XML doc that looks something like:
===========================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  <---This will disappear
<project>
  <dependencies>
	<dependency>
      <groupId>foo</groupId>
      <artifactId>bar</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
      <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>
===========================

On this file I run something like this:
===========================
  my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => $filename);
  $xp->setNodeText("/project/dependencies/dependencyversion='1.0'/version", 2.0);
  open (OUTF, ">$filename");
  print OUTF XML::XPath::XMLParser::as_string($xp->findnodes('/'));
===========================

I end up with what I want:
===========================
<project>
  <dependencies>
	<dependency>
      <groupId>foo</groupId>
      <artifactId>bar</artifactId>
      <version>2.0</version>       <---- Only change
      <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>
===========================

BUT the xml prolog is gone.

I checked the XML::XPATH docs for a method to grab and store the header,
but did not find it. 

...or is there some other technique that I am missing?

Any pointers appreciated,

Chris

In reply to XPATH as_string losing prolog by XRZ1138

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