Yeah it looks like IE is trying to actually format the xml to display it on the page. If I stick another character in front of the xml string I get this result from IE:
<TABLE width=400> <P style="FONT: 13pt/15pt verdana">The XML page cannot be displayed <P style="FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana">Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the <A href="javascript:location.reload()" target=_self>Refresh</A> button, or try again later. <HR> <P style="FONT: bold 8pt/11pt verdana">Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'http://localhost:8888/ com.proprintsgear.design_lab.test6/loadXml'. Line 1, Position 1 </ P><PRE style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><FONT color=blue>{<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> etc... I'll try playing around with JSON. Thanks for your response, gregor. -DLH On Dec 22, 10:42 am, gregor <greg.power...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi DLH, > > I had a similar problem a couple of months ago trying to return an XML > string from a file upload servlet in IE. In my case IE appeared to be > consuming the first 20/30 chars of the XML text before my > onSubmitComplete() could get its hands on it thus rendering it un- > parsable. I went through just about every tip on the group relating to > this in various combination ("text/html" is definitely right, but > still didn't work for me) for a frustrating day to no avail. I came to > the conclusion that IE was trying to be "helpful" by interpreting the > markup itself and screwing it up rather than just leaving it alone. I > imagine there is a way to get round this but it is not clear to me > what. As you can see, this is a different but related problem to > yours, which suggests that IE can be awkward and unpredictable with > XML responses. > > Next morning I decided to learn JSON, which I had never used before, > and between the simple flexjson lib and GWT JSON parser I had it > working within a couple of hours and was delighted to see that IE > completely ignored the JSON return strings in all cases. Personally I > will not bother with XML again. > > Unfortunately JSON doesn't sound like a solution for you, and I'm > sorry I don't have the "real" answer. One thing that might work if all > else fails is to put your XML inside a JSON response as a single text > field, dig it out using the GWT JSON parser, then use the GWT XML > parser on it. Horrible I know, but it will probably stop IE > interfering with your response. > > regards > gregor > > On Dec 22, 2:35 pm, D L H <thed2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hmm I think that's how I had it originally. I just changed it to text/ > > html again, and it didn't seem to have any effect. > > > public class LoadXmlServlet extends HttpServlet { > > protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, > > HttpServletResponse > > response) throws java.io.IOException { > > response.setContentType("text/html"); > > ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); > > //StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); > > //PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw); > > > DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory(); > > ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory); > > > List items; > > try { > > items = upload.parseRequest(request); > > FileItem item = (FileItem)items.get(0); > > out.print(item.getString()); > > } catch(FileUploadException e) { > > //e.printStackTrace(pw); > > //out.print(sw.toString()); > > } > > } > > > } > > > On Dec 21, 9:40 pm, "todd.sei...@gmail.com" <todd.sei...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > It looks like you are using a FormPanel. For IE to work you need to > > > have your response content type be set to text/html. This will work > > > for the other browsers as well. > > > > On Dec 19, 5:05 pm, D L H <thed2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > > > I have a Java servlet that reads an xml-based file and sends the > > > > contents to my gwt application as an HttpServletResponse. I have the > > > > content type set to text/plain in the servlet. On the client side I > > > > use event.getResults() inside the onSubmitComplete method of the form > > > > handler. > > > > > Everything runs smoothly in Firefox, but when I tested in IE7, it > > > > would not work properly. I used a Label for debugging to see what > > > > exactly the application was reading from the servlet, and in IE i'm > > > > getting a buncha HTML stuff like this: > > > > > <DIV class=e><SPAN class=b> </SPAN> <SPAN class=m><?</ > > > > SPAN><SPAN class=pi>xml version="1.0" </SPAN><SPAN class=m>?></ > > > > SPAN> </DIV> > > > > > How do I get IE7 to format my servlet response as plain text instead > > > > of html? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
