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Dynamic loading from XML

Hi,

When I use a server-side ASP script to generate a XML file and use that file to populate the dhtmlCombo, using eg. z.loadXML('mylist.xml'), it works just fine.

But when I try to feed that exact same XML string directly to the dhtmlCombo without first saving it as a XML file, as in z.enableFilteringMode(true,'myscript.asp',true,true), I get a message saying "Incorrect XML".

Can you help? Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Marja de Vroed
Club Webware
The Netherlands

Reasons why XML not loaded correctly

a) Simplest but most common - please be sure that path which you used inside loadXMl command valid and produce correct XML response.
b) Please check that XML response generated by script are correct XML
    - synax correct ( some special chars can corrupt output, also if you are uses encoding different from UTF-8, please be sure that  it correctly specified in XML header )
    - correct content type assigned - text/xml
    - in case of FF, there must not be any whitespaces before start  of output and <?xml declaration
to check all those requirements , just point your browser to XML generation script - if all correct browser will render correct XML document, in other case it will show description of XML parsing error

Thank you for your reply.

I've now found out that the problem is only in Firefox. There I get the "Incorrect XML" message.
But in Internet Explorer it works correctly: the autocomplete mode works just fine in that browser.

And when I point my browsers to the XML generating ASP script page directly, I get a correct XML display in Internet Explorer.
But in Firefox it displays as regular text instead of as a XML layout.

Any ideas?

Regards, Marja

Found it!
I 've now put Response.ContentType = "text/xml" in the ASP script that produces the XML, and it is now working correctly in FF as well.

Thanks for your help!

Regards, Marja