Question

I’m trying to generate this doctype string:

<!DOCTYPE games SYSTEM "transform.dtd">

This is what I’ve been trying:

$writer.WriteDocType("games", $null , "transform.dtd", $null )

I’m not entirely sure how to get that exact line.

Answer 1

There’s a known bug in PowerShell: passing null to a string parameter results in a String.Empty instead of null.

You can work around it like this:

# Given an XML writer of some sort ...
$writer = [system.xml.xmlwriter]::create("$pwd\test.xml")

# Set up the parameters you want to pass to the method:
$params = @("games",$null,"transform.dtd",$null)

# And invoke it using .Net reflection:
$writer.GetType().GetMethod("WriteDocType").Invoke($writer,$params)

# Eventually, close the writer:
$writer.Close()