"c676228" <betty@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I wrote an asp program which can receive xml string from a client program
if
> they send me a xml in the body. It is OK.(Anthony Jones helped me) But
now,
> our client suggests that they are willing to send me xml string through a
> field, say xml="<document>firstDoc doc</document>"
> So I have to write a testing program to make sure that our server can take
it.
> Here is my client side testing program:
> Set xmlDom=CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
>
> XMLDom.async =False
> dim xmlhttp
> set xmlhttp = server.Createobject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
> xmlhttp.Open
> "POST","xxxx.com/select2007/xt_select2007_CompleteB2B_test.asp",false
> xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type",

> xmltext="xml=<enrollment>firstDoc doc</enrollment>"
>
> xmlhttp.send xmltext
> ...
>
>                Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
> Response.Write xmlhttp.responsexml.xml
>         Set xmlhttp = nothing
>
> so I have to use the following code on the server side:
> Set xmlDoc=Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
> xmlDoc.LoadXML Request("xml")
> ...
> it seems Ok,(but one thing is very strange: the space between the text of
> the node disappears when the xml string displayed in the broswer, it
becomes
> firstDocdoc somehow)  even worse when my xml string becomes more
complicated,
> it's messed up.
> say if I have some attribute in the node:
> <enrollment productName="Select" orderID="200704251114527189" >
> </enrollment>
> so my xmtext will become
> xmltext="xml=<enrollment productName='Select'
> orderID='200704251114527189'></enrollment>"
>
> or xmltext="xml=" & "<enrollment name=""" & "Betty Sun" & """>first
> try</enrollment>"
>
> In IE, it will give me error message:
> The XML page cannot be displayed
> Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then
> click the Refresh button, or try again later.
>
> XML document must have a top level element. Error processing resource
> 'http://localhost/1109selectserverhttp.asp'.
>
> Or in FireFox, it will have:
> XML Parsing Error: no element found
> Location: http://localhost/1109selectserverhttp.asp
> Line Number 1, Column 1:
>
> Can you tell me how to deal with it in this case?

"Anthony Jones" wrote:

> "c676228" <betty@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:06146BA5-E8F0-40D0-ABA8-A894E7016568@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all,
> > I wrote an asp program which can receive xml string from a client program
> if
> > they send me a xml in the body. It is OK.(Anthony Jones helped me) But
> now,
> > our client suggests that they are willing to send me xml string through a
> > field, say xml="<document>firstDoc doc</document>"
> > So I have to write a testing program to make sure that our server can take
> it.
> > Here is my client side testing program:
> > Set xmlDom=CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
> >
> > XMLDom.async =False
> > dim xmlhttp
> > set xmlhttp = server.Createobject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
> > xmlhttp.Open
> > "POST","xxxx.com/select2007/xt_select2007_CompleteB2B_test.asp",false
> > xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type",
> "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
> > xmltext="xml=<enrollment>firstDoc doc</enrollment>"
> >
> > xmlhttp.send xmltext
> > ...
> >
> >                Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
> > Response.Write xmlhttp.responsexml.xml
> >         Set xmlhttp = nothing
> >
> > so I have to use the following code on the server side:
> > Set xmlDoc=Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
> > xmlDoc.LoadXML Request("xml")
> > ...
> > it seems Ok,(but one thing is very strange: the space between the text of
> > the node disappears when the xml string displayed in the broswer, it
> becomes
> > firstDocdoc somehow)  even worse when my xml string becomes more
> complicated,
> > it's messed up.
> > say if I have some attribute in the node:
> > <enrollment productName="Select" orderID="200704251114527189" >
> > </enrollment>
> > so my xmtext will become
> > xmltext="xml=<enrollment productName='Select'
> > orderID='200704251114527189'></enrollment>"
> >
> > or xmltext="xml=" & "<enrollment name=""" & "Betty Sun" & """>first
> > try</enrollment>"
> >
> > In IE, it will give me error message:
> > The XML page cannot be displayed
> > Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then
> > click the Refresh button, or try again later.
> >
> > XML document must have a top level element. Error processing resource
> > 'http://localhost/1109selectserverhttp.asp'.
> >
> > Or in FireFox, it will have:
> > XML Parsing Error: no element found
> > Location: http://localhost/1109selectserverhttp.asp
> > Line Number 1, Column 1:
> >
> > Can you tell me how to deal with it in this case?
>
> Hi Betty,
>
> When a value is posted as field value of a HTML form the value is encoded as
> if it were part of a URL.  That's why the a POSTed forms content type is
> called "application/x-form-urlencoded", note the last word in the type.
>
> Hence in your test program try using Server.URLEncode like this:-
>
> xmltext= "xml=" & Server.URLEncode("<enrollment>firstDoc doc</enrollment>")
>
>
> --
> Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET
>
>
>