How can I create an XML object from scratch?

[CedricCicada]

I can read a file containing XML into an XML object, find descendants that have particular values, and add properties to the XML object.  But I don't know how to create an XML object from scratch.

var xmlFile = new File("c:\\misc\\note.xml");
if (xmlFile.open("r"))
{
    alert ("XML file opened.");
    var xmlString = xmlFile.read();
    var xmlObject = XML(xmlString);
    alert ("Original XML:\n" + xmlObject);
     /*
    var newChild = new XML();
    newChild.name = "Title";
    newChild.text = "Waterfall";
    xmlObject.appendChild(newChild);
    */
    alert ("Heading is " + xmlObject.heading);
    xmlObject.title = "Waterfall";
    // var titleObject = new XML("<Title>Waterfall</Title>");
    // titleObject.appendChild("Waterfall");
    // alert ("Title object:\n" + titleObject);
    // xmlObject.appendChild(titleObject);
    alert ("XML is now \n" + xmlObject);
    var titleObject = xmlObject.descendants("title");
    alert ("Title object: " + titleObject);
    titleObject.SubTitle = "This Is A Subtitle";
    alert ("XML is now \n" + xmlObject);

    var anotherXmlObject = new XML("Root");
    anotherXmlObject.SomeProperty = "SomeValue";
    alert("Another XML object:\n" + anotherXmlObject.toXMLString());
}

In the above code, I read a file, display the XML content of the file, add an element named "title" with the text "Waterfall", and add an element named "SubTitle" with the text "This is a subtitle".  An alert statement shows me that that all works.  Now I want to create a new XML object that would contain:

<Root>
<SomeProperty>SomeValue</SomeProperty>
</Root>

But the last alert only shows me "Root".  

What am I doing wrong?

[Manan Joshi]

Try the following

var anotherXmlObject = new XML("<Root>");
anotherXmlObject.SomeProperty = "SomeValue";
alert("Another XML object:\n" + anotherXmlObject);

-Manan