xml-dev - Re: bug report: msxml3, loadXML()

[Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com>]

Yes, .parseError works, and is indeed entirely consistent with an async
load architecture. 

I hereby withdraw my absence-of-error-message bug assertion, though it
strikes me that this helpful explanation would also fit very well in the
loadXML() documentation :)

Francis.

Chris Lovett wrote:
> 
> You have to check the parseError object that hangs off the xml document
> object to see if load failed or not (it is packaged this way because the
> MSXML DOM also supports "async" loading.
> 
> loadXML() takes a BSTR which by definition is a UCS-2 (or UTF-16) format.
> If you have a JScript string then you have a UTF-16 string and it should
> work - so just chopping off the xml declaration is probably all that you
> have to do in this case.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francis Norton [mailto:francis@redrice.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:41 AM
> To: Simon St.Laurent
> Cc: xml-dev
> Subject: Re: bug report: msxml3, loadXML()
> 
> "Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> >
> > At 01:59 PM 9/27/00 +0100, Francis Norton wrote:
> > >This caused me some grief. I think it's an absence-of-error-message bug
> ...
> >
> > It should be documented in the method documentation (and hopefully will
> > be), but you might also want to take a look at "How to Encode XML Data", a
> > piece Chris Lovett wrote for MSDN:
> >
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/articles/xmlencodings.asp
> ...
> 
> Thanks - useful article. I see I may have to find some way of accessing
> SAFEARRAYs from server-side JScript - either that or establish that it
> is in fact safe to simply knock out the xml declaration before the
> loadXML() call!
> 
> On the absence-of-error-message point, the article above suggests (but,
> I agree, does not *specify*) that this problem might generate a
> 
>         Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported.
> 
> error message. In fact the attached query program generates no error
> messages at all, as can be seen -
> 
> ---
> D:\xmlSchema>tableXpath table_0.xml "Francis Norton"
> Phone=555-676767.
> 
> D:\xmlSchema>tableXpath table.xml "Francis Norton"
> 
> D:\xmlSchema>
> ---
> 
> Thanks -
> 
> Francis.
> --
> Francis Norton.
> 
> why not?

-- 
Francis Norton.

why not?