Mick I am talk ing about appending a new line at the end of the child record...like I said earlier... in 2002 you could check the append new line functionality and this allowed a 0 to many record (like items record) to start a new line if there was more than one record (Hopefully that is what you are considering an element).
As far as at the at the end of the document I have compensated for that append feature by setting the root node to a Post Fix Carriage Return.
Inside the document or at a child record, I am trying to avoid adding an additional child record ( set it to a post fix carriage return) to wrap around every 0 to many records to accomodate an append new line feature... so I hoping I am just missing something or this append new line feature is just hidden somewhere ... I hope I made this a little bit more clear.
Thanks for getting back to me