xml file has been encoded to use &quote; instead of "

[Sniipe]

I have an xml file which I am passing from one page to another. I don't have access to the page its being passed to so I can't change anything there.

The XML is in string format and posted to form by a button to its destination page.
<form id="frmGenerateReport" method="post">
<input type="hidden" id="xml" NAME="xml" runat="server">
</form>

On the submitting page I did an alert on the value and its fine, but on the recieving page I viewed the source and saw that it had swapped the " for &quote;

Any ideas?

 

[Sniipe]

can anyone help me with this? I am still having difficulty with it.

also its &quot; not &quote; which I posed.

 

[k5tm]

I don't really understand the flow here, but if you want to get through two levels of entity resolution you might try:

"

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[tsuji]

Try not post as a riddle. If the receiving page escape the quote by replacing it to &quot;, what can you do? (as you don't have control over it.)

 

[Sniipe]

*posted (misspelt posed)

I'm definately not explaining things correctly. I'll try again.

I have a dummy page (I don't have access to the clients page, but I assume its along these lines...)
The client complains that he gets his xml files and they are not formed correctly. Instead they have to replace &quot; with ' to get it working.

So on my dummy page I go:

ReturnXML = Request.Form("NNECXML")
' Write out the returned XML
if ReturnXML <> "" then
Response.Write("XML Generated")
Response.Write("<BR>-----------------<BR>")
Response.Write(Server.HTMLEncode(ReturnXML))
end if

This is what it looks like on the web page

XML Generated
-----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xiEngineering:NNEC_XML xsi:schemaLocation="xiEngineering xiEngineering.xsd" xmlns:xiEngineering="xiEngineering" xmlns:gl="Global" xmlns:xsi="

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><System><Xlate><HEADER><Info

Item="User ID" Value="a1234"></Info><Info Item="Distributor ID" Value="dist1234"></Info><Info Item="Site ID" Value=""></Info><Info Item="Quote Type" Value="SMB"></Info><Info Item="Quote Number"...

And this is what the source looks like - Its the source I'm more interested in. It needs to be correct, because they are taking from the form value.

XML Generated<BR>-----------------<BR>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;&lt;xiEngineering:NNEC_XML xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;xiEngineering xiEngineering.xsd&quot; xmlns:xiEngineering=&quot;xiEngineering&quot; xmlns:gl=&quot;Global&quot; xmlns:xsi=&quot;

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;&gt;&lt;System&gt;&lt;Xlate&gt;&lt;HEADER&gt;&lt;Info

Item=&quot;User ID&quot; Value=&quot;a1234&quot;&gt;&lt;/Info&gt;&lt;Info Item=&quot;Distributor ID&quot; Value=&quot;dist1234&quot;&gt;&lt;/Info&gt;&lt;Info Item=&quot;Site ID&quot; Value=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/Info&gt;&lt;Info Item=&quot;Quote Type&quot;...


Now I'll also say that they are not complaining about &gt; or &alt; ...

 

[tsuji]

What is the reason behind not to send the string back plain?
>Response.Write(Server.HTMLEncode(ReturnXML))
[tt]Response.Write ReturnXML[/tt]

 

[tsuji]

Upon re-read what you think your client page might look with those messages and formatting like Response.Write("XML Generated") and Response.Write("<BR>-----------------<BR>"), maybe clients really want to highlight-copy-and-paste to save the xml source. In that case, the simplest with to put up a textarea for them to do that.
[tt]
ReturnXML = Request.Form("NNECXML")
' Write out the returned XML
if ReturnXML <> "" then
Response.Write("XML Generated")
Response.Write("<BR>-----------------<BR>")
[red]'[/red]Response.Write(Server.HTMLEncode(ReturnXML))
[blue]response.write vbcrlf
response.write "<textarea cols='60' rows='30'>" & ReturnXML & "</textarea>" & "<br />" & vbcrlf[/blue]
end if
[/tt]

 

[Sniipe]

The stuff on this page:
ReturnXML = Request.Form("NNECXML")
' Write out the returned XML
if ReturnXML <> "" then
Response.Write("XML Generated")
Response.Write("<BR>-----------------<BR>")
'Response.Write(Server.HTMLEncode(ReturnXML))
response.write vbcrlf
response.write "<textarea cols='60' rows='30'>" & ReturnXML & "</textarea>" & "<br />" & vbcrlf
end if

^^ this is my dummy page. I don't know what the clients page is like. I can't change anything at the destination, I can only change stuff from the source:

<form id="frmGenerateReport" method="post">
<input type="hidden" id="xml" NAME="xml" runat="server">
</form>

 

[tsuji]

I don't understand what message you mean to convey in the last post. But if you don't know what clients complaint about, why don't you ascertain it first?