over writing an xml file using asp

jojys · September 13th, 2004, 10:30 AM

Hello,

I am a newbie to XML as well as ASP. I am working on a project which requires that every time a particular asp page is requested, it should create / overwrite the existing xml file called "data.xml" and display the contents of "data.xml". Every time the file is displayed, the contents will be entirely different. That is I dont want to append to the file or retrieve some portion of the file, but I have to overwrite the entire xml file or overwrite all the nodes. Can anybody help me? I have no idea how to go for it.

Thanks,

Jojy

joefawcett · September 13th, 2004, 10:46 AM

Well you will need to make sure that the IIS account has permission to read/write to the relevant folder. Then you will need to do the following (pseudo code):

Code:

Instantiate msxml2.domdocument.4.0
Create xml from raw data
Use save method of DomDocument

You can then send a page to the user and to show the raw data have an iframe in the page with its source as the file you just created.

Plenty of examples if you download the ms xml 4 core services sdk from http://msdn.com/xml.

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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)

jojys · September 14th, 2004, 08:38 AM

Thank you