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[Karl Stubsjoen]
> Thanks for the help Tom.
>
> Indeed the problem seems to be a limitations of IXMLHttpRequest class (i
> think that is what it is called). This class *blindly* (see MSDN article
> below) encodes the responseText as UTF-8. The source of the XML (that I
am
> querying) is originaly encoded as ISO-8859-1.
> I'm not sure on how all this encoding takes place, and how one encoding
> effects another, but I'm getting hung up for sure.
>
> One other thing to mention is: the original data (before the XML) was
> submitted by a user *damn users*. I have determined that she/he included
> the unicode for "TM". Here is an outline of my current problem then:
>
> 1. original data submitted - unicode "TM" submitted as part of data
> 2. server side XML generated and encoded as ISO-8859-1
> 3. ixmlhttprequest made for XML data - which is *blindly* downloaded and
> encoded as UTF-8
> 4. MSXML3 chokes when attempting to load xml, error is "Invalid
> characters..."
>
Ouch! If the original user's character is encoded in iso-8859-1, which
seems likely, then you could run an identity transform that changes it to
utf-8. But I imagine that you are using IXMLHttpRequest to get the xml file
in the first place. Is the data coming from a browser? If so, maybe you
could fix the character (of course, doing a more general cleanup at the same
time) with javascript before it gets sent.
I've really been surprised at all the places that Microsoft is either
non-conforming or simply does things in a way that can be unworkable in
certain situations. I've seen in in .NET web services, and SQL server
querying an xml file for query parameters, and now this.
Cheers,
Tom P
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