Client-side xml works but server-side doesn't

[MarcusH]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with getting code which works on the client side to work on the server in ASP.

This code works:

<script language=&quot;VBScript&quot;>

set xmldoc = CreateObject(&quot;Microsoft.XMLDOM&quot
xmldoc.async=False
xmldoc.Load (&quot;clientList.xml&quot

set element = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName(&quot;clients&quot

for each theItem in element
document.write theItem.getAttribute(&quot;lastName&quot &&quot;<br>&quot;
next

</script>

But this does not

<%
Response.buffer=true
Response.ContentType=&quot;text/xml&quot;

set xmldoc = Server.CreateObject(&quot;Microsoft.XMLDOM&quot
xmldoc.async=False
xmldoc.Load Server.MapPath(&quot;clientList.xml&quot

set element = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName(&quot;clients&quot

for each theItem in element
Response.write theItem.getAttribute(&quot;lastName&quot &&quot;<br>&quot;
next

%>

The error it comes up with is:

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.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource '

http://url/pageName.asp'.

Line 1, Position 1


Your help on this would be very much appreciated
Marcus

 

[Tarwn]

Set the content type to text/plain to see why it doesn't like your output. This will output it as plain text so you can see why it doesn't like it as xml

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[MarcusH]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I changed the content type to text/html and it worked.

Thanks
Marcus

 

[Tarwn]

The problem was most likely because it was expecting xml output in the response, but what you were outputting wasn't legal xml formatting which confused the parser. Since IE automatically runs any xml file it receives through it's own default XSL sheet for formatting (if it isn't already attached to an XSL sheet) the parser was attempting to validate and then apply the XSL sheet and failing.

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