Error loading a stylesheet with foreign chars via the MSXML2.ServerXM LHTTP object

[niklang]

Hi everybody,

I have an ASP page that uses the MSXML2.ServerXM LHTTP object to read a stylesheet from IIS as follows:

         strXSLPath = "http://localhost/ej/ejdetail.xsl.asp"
 
         Dim oXMLHttpStyle
         Set oXMLHttpStyle = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
         oXMLHttpStyle.open "GET", strXSLPath, False
         oXMLHttpStyle.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml" 
         oXMLHttpStyle.setRequestHeader "encoding", "UTF-16" 
         oXMLHttpStyle.send()
 

I then load this stylesheet into a DOM which fails (I have checked the return flag from the loadxml call). I have found that the problem relates to foreign characters (like è) in my CustomGlobal.as a file (it holds custom descriptors for different language customers) because i can remove these foreign characters and get the transform to work no problem. The .asa file must get parsed when the stylesheet is returned.

So my question is how do I get the stylesheet to load correctly? I need to support the foreign chars but am unsure about how to load up the stylesheet with them in.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick.

[prussell]

Hi everybody,

I have an ASP page that uses the MSXML2.ServerXM LHTTP object to read a stylesheet from IIS as follows:

         strXSLPath = "http://localhost/ej/ejdetail.xsl.asp"
 
         Dim oXMLHttpStyle
         Set oXMLHttpStyle = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
         oXMLHttpStyle.open "GET", strXSLPath, False
         oXMLHttpStyle.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml" 
         oXMLHttpStyle.setRequestHeader "encoding", "UTF-16" 
         oXMLHttpStyle.send()
 

I then load this stylesheet into a DOM which fails (I have checked the return flag from the loadxml call). I have found that the problem relates to foreign characters (like è) in my CustomGlobal.as a file (it holds custom descriptors for different language customers) because i can remove these foreign characters and get the transform to work no problem. The .asa file must get parsed when the stylesheet is returned.

So my question is how do I get the stylesheet to load correctly? I need to support the foreign chars but am unsure about how to load up the stylesheet with them in.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick.

Today I ran across this post looking to resolve this same issue. I am using Classic ASP and the MSXML2.XMLHTTP object from javascript to repopulate a selectbox. The app requires the use of foreign characters. Whenever the xml payload was returned with a foreign character, it would not load into the DOM.Document. It took me 8 hours of racking my brain untill I added the standalone='yes ' attribute to the xml tag and voila! it worked.

<xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes'>

Hope this helps.
Patrick