Loading XML file from httprequest output

Question

I am trying to analyse the output of httprequest which is formatted as XML. I use MSXML2.DOMDocument to load the response as XML but I receive this error:

The system cannot find the path specified.

this is the output of httprequest when I receive it as ResponseText:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resultObj>
  <result>False</result>
  <invoiceNumber>1</invoiceNumber>
  <referenceNumber>21669145</referenceNumber>
  <transactionDate>2016/05/18 20:10:07</transactionDate>
</resultObj>

and this is my Vbscript code to load the result as XML file:

data= "invoiceUID=1"
Set httpRequest = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0")
httpRequest.Open "POST", "https://some url", False
httpRequest.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
httpRequest.Send data

postResponse = httpRequest.ResponseXML.xml

Set xmlDOM = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
xmlDOM.async = False
xmlDOM.setProperty "ServerHTTPRequest", True
xmlDOM.Load(postResponse) ///// I think this line fails

If xmlDOM.ParseError <> 0 Then
  response.write xmlDOM.ParseError.Reason
Else
  response.write "file loaded"
End If

Well, why don't you simply use httpRequest.responseXML? After all, the object is already the DOM representation of the parsed response, there is no need for you to parse it again. — Martin Honnen
– Martin Honnen, Commented May 20, 2016 at 9:33

oracle certified professional · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-20 07:36:47Z

5

You are using the load method, which

Loads an XML document from the specified location.

However you want to load the XML as a string into the object, so use loadXML, which

Loads an XML document using the supplied string.

answered May 20, 2016 at 7:36

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2 Comments

Ali Sheikhpour Over a year ago

Thank you. Where can I find documentation about this. I did search for 2 days but no luck!

oracle certified professional Over a year ago

@AliSheikhpour I use the MSDN reference; msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms764730(v=vs.85).aspx

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