We've had some similar strange behaviour with servlet generated formats. Specifically
with "PDFS" but the solution for encouraging IE to treat the incoming data was to
append the "file extension" to
the URL, like
http://myurl/mypath/myXMLservlet?dummyarg=mydummyfile.xml
We had to append a mydummyfile.pdf to end to get the adobe plugin to consistently
launch, maybe this will get IE to treat the data as XML in addition to setting the
content-type
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Nic Ferrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Output xml string from a servlet directly to browser and
preserve the xml structure
"Ouyang, Jian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to be able to use an output method to directly output from
> servlet to browser an xml string with the xml tags preserved and the
> xml structure clearly presented. (The result should be the same as
> if one clicks on an .xml file).
I'm not sure what you mean by xml tags preserved. IE does some
strange things with XML, it tries to display the document as a DOM.
But I'm not sure if that's the behaviour you're after...
> I tried to do response.setContentType("text/xml") before print out
> and didn't get what I want. (The result is the same as if I use
> ("text/html"), ("text/plain"));
If you specified the content type as text/plain you'd get just the
plain text of the XML but I presume that's not what you want.
Nic Ferrier
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