I'm about to distribute my program that uses the Microsoft XML, v3.0 library.

I really need to use late binding instead.

To use late binding in AutoCad I used:
method to set the application object. Does anyone know how I can set the XML application object or any other method to use late binding with XML?

If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. * Dan Quayle

You don't say, but I assume you're using VB here and not script?

Its the Dim statement that determines whether an object is early or late bound, not the statement that creates the instance of the object. Just declare it as object and it will be late bound, like this:
Dim x As Object
Set x = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")

Thanks for responding.

Yes I'm using VB here.

Incase the user doesn't have v3.0 I want to be able to bind to the earliest library possible that's compatiable with v3.0.

Would that be v2.6? In that case I substitue 2.6 in place of 3.0 in the createobject method, is that correct?

Any thoughts or advice on building a robust distributed program using XML is welcomed.

If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. * Dan Quayle

With MSXML 3 or earlier, you could use version independent progid (they were removed in v4). So you would just need Set x = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument") and that would pick up whatever version was on the client machine (2, 2.6 or 3).

There was another even earlier progid "Microsoft.XMLDOM" so you might want to test for this too. It all depends what your program uses MSXML for...I guess you need to look at this and decide which is the lowest version of MSXML that will cope with your code.

You also might want to take a look around the web for MSXML version checkers (I think there's one at perfectxml.com) and see what they do...

hth
Phil