xml parse errors

[manic]

I'm retrieving an XML document posted to my page using 3 simple lines

 set xmldoc = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
 xmldoc.async=false
 xmldoc.load(Request)

I know there is data being sent but when i run

 Response.write xmldoc.parseError.reason

It's consistantly telling me No data is available for the requested resource. Does anyone know why this message would appear when the request "should" have some data in it.

Also is there anyway I can view the raw results in "request"?

[Richard Conyard]

where are you getting request from?

I am taking it that this is not the request object since that would be silly.

[manic]

from what I can gather load(request) is the "reserved word" for pulling details out of a post header.

the origin of the xml posted is unknown, the script simply waits for a remote page to call it -> runs through it's process -> outputs results... in this case a simple "ok got it"

[Richard Conyard]

You've got to say what you want to pull out of the request object.

You've your XML object which is expecting the location of your XML file, but your passing it the request object

try something more like:

xmldoc.loadXML( request("myXMLField") )

[manic]

what you're saying makes sense but there's a big but.

I have no idea what's in the XML document to start with, it's a document which can change and most likely will. I have no control what-so-ever what goes into it. My system needs to be fluid enough to accept changing structures and store them.

At this stage all I'm bothered about is storing the exact XML doc as it comes.

Also loadXML causes errors because it only accepts string formats, the information coming through is XML. So a nice little type mismatch error flashes up. To me that doesn't make much sense because I thought all XML could be read as text hence a string but it's in almost everything I've read up to now.

[Richard Conyard]

XML is only a string that follows pre-defined formatting rules. The code I gave you doesn't really care about what the XML is (provided it's valid), it just needs to know the POST or QueryString variable name it's sent to the webserver in.

[manic]

see what your saying thanks for explaining

my problem is I've no idea what that variable would be called. sources I've been through have all said use xmldoc.load(request) to pull anything out of the headers. from that I assume it pulls out whatevers there.

in some test cases this did work, only time it seems to fail is when a doctype is defined and dtd supplied, no idea why that would stop anything from working.

[Richard Conyard]

For Each item in request.form
    response.write item
Next

For Each item in request.querystring
    response.write item
Next

That should do you

[manic]

if this is that simple i'm gonna be black and blue before the day is through!

testing

[manic]

wasn't as simple as that... didn't work