As I said before you can't use 'Set' for a simple property, only for objects.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Have a question for you I was hoping you could answer for me. You have already been a terrific help to me in getting this worked out (http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=54431)

But here is my problem. Everything I have set up when just the xml packet is sent and I parse it using the namespace, etc. However, and this may be a stupid question, I am unable to load the Request in the parser now because they are including other variables in a manner such as this:

User=user&Password=pass&Message=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

So obviously when I attempt to load it and parse it does not work. How do I remove these vars, or ONLY load the "Message=" variable? Because right now I am simply doing this:

set xmlObj = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument.4.0")

xmlObj.async = False
xmlObj.validateOnParse = False
xmlObj.setProperty "SelectionLanguage","XPath"

ns = "www.detroittradingexchange.com/BuyerMessages"
xmlObj.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces","xmlns:ns='" & ns & "'"

bLoaded = xmlObj.load(Request)

If bLoaded Then ' It loaded and validated ok, continue..

But because of the other request variables it is not loading and I can not parse the document.

UGH...

Anything you could provide would be helpful - thank you.

You should be able to use: --

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

That is what I assumed, and have always done, but it is NOT working. I thought maybe that since I am using the Msxml2.DomDocument.4.0 this time (always had used the older 'Microsoft.XMLDOM' object before), that I needed to do something different... I have tried the request.form, request.querystring - nothing works. Do you think perhaps the xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml" needs to be form/URLEncoded instead?

OK check it - this is what is going on and I don't get it...

I take the variable on the page it posts to:

XML_ping = request("message")

then I even write it to make sure it is there:

response.write XML_ping

(now it shows the lists of values and everything looks good. The only thing I am concerned about is when I look at the page source to see the XML, there are no spaces where there should be - like this: <?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="UTF-8"?><PINGXB_REQUESTxmlns=, etc...)

How can I fix that?

But lets assume that is ok - when I do this:

bLoaded = xmlObj.load(XML_ping)

bLoaded is FALSE, as if it is not even loaded...

Any ideas?

Maybe the XML string needs decoding first due to characters like < being escaped. Why they chose to send XML via the querystring I'll never know, it's asking for trouble.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Ok this is strange, but I don't really know the difference in these versions so...

This works fine when parsing the document that is sent like this:

xmlHttp.Send "User=USER&Password=PASS&Message=" & xmlDoc & "&Debug=false"

(WORKS):
XML_ping = Request("Message")
set xmlObj = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlObj.async = False
xmlObj.setProperty "SelectionLanguage","XPath"
ns = "www.detroittradingexchange.com/BuyerMessages"
xmlObj.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces","xmlns:ns='" & ns & "'"
bLoaded = xmlObj.loadxml(XML_ping)

(HOWEVER, THIS DOES NOT WORK WHEN TRYING TO USE THE NEWER OBJECT):

set xmlObj = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument.4.0")
SAME CODE AS ABOVE...

WHY? AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!