Hi,

... but I am having difficulty saving the XML to a specific file. I would like to save each file to it's corresponding "application number.XML".

Don't know where you get your 'application number from' but, as an example, does this help:

Dim AppNum as integer = 12345   'sample number

Dim w As New Xml.XmlTextWriter(AppNum.ToString.Trim + ".XML", Nothing)
w.WriteStartDocument()
w.WriteStartElement("salary")
w.WriteAttributeString("type", "annual")
w.WriteString("4500")
w.WriteEndElement()
w.WriteEndDocument()
w.Flush()
w.Close()

Regards,
Viv