ie recognizes this xml, but firefox doesn't

[email protected] · November 1st, 2009, 11:00 PM

When I product the following xml using aspx (dot net) it works fine in both ie and firefox. When I produce the same xml using asp (classic), firefox just reads it as html, but ie seems to accept it as xml. I've heard of the whitespace issues before the opening <?xml tag, is there something else I'm missing.

Can someone provide a very simple asp (classic) based page that produces acceptable xml for firefox? Please? Thanks in advance. I much appreciate your help.

This is my extremely simple bit of xml. Firefox is strict, which is good, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Is it the encoding?

I don't believe there's any white space, does asp classic throw some invisible white space in there or what? frustrating.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rows><rec>lkj</rec></rows>

Seems pretty simple, but I'm doing something wrong.

Martin Honnen · November 2nd, 2009, 07:13 AM

Well it does not matter whether it is ASP.NET or classic ASP that dynamically creates the XML document, what matters is that you set the Content-Type to application/xml so that the browser knows to parse and treat it as XML:

Code:

<%@ Language="VBScript" CodePage="65001"%>
<%
Dim doc
Set doc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0")
doc.appendChild doc.createElement("root")
Dim foo
Set foo = doc.createElement("foo")
foo.text = "a < b"
doc.documentElement.appendChild foo
Response.ContentType = "application/xml"
doc.Save Response
%>

[email protected] · November 2nd, 2009, 12:46 PM

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your help. I just needed the:
Response.ContentType = "application/xml"

I should have realized this as this is the way I have it in asp.net. Thanks for your help. I really really appreciate it.

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