I have below a sample xml that I'm trying to manipulate John I will have a string that I want to append to my existing xml shown below: "Doe" My question is, instead of creating a new node using the createnode method of the xml document, I want to append the string that I have to the xml. I noticed that there is the a "createtextnode" method, and it does what I need it to do, but when I render the xml to the browser, the format is not correct. Below is what the xml would look like John lt;LastNamegt;Doelt;/Lastnamegt; Is there a better way to append an existing string representation of an xml Thanks,