[OpenLayers-Users] loading XML problem
Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
bartvde at osgis.nl
Tue Sep 25 10:10:41 EDT 2007
Ofcourse I can always use proxy.cgi and override the content-type there.
Best regards,
Bart
--
Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
http://www.osgis.nl
--------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
Van: Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS <bartvde at osgis.nl>
Naar: Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS <bartvde at osgis.nl>, Andrew Larcombe
<andrew at andrewlarcombe.co.uk>
Cc: users at openlayers.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] loading XML problem
Datum: 25/09/07 06:55
> Hmm, it gets trickier.
>
> I was using the code from Omniverdi's WMSManager.
>
> But since the mimetype of a OGC WMS 1.1.X GetCapabilities response is
> application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml, I cannot use responseXML in IE :-(
>
> This leads me to the following conclusion: when using ISO-8859-1 and
having
> special characters in an OGC WMS 1.1.X GetCapabilities document you cannot
> parse the XML from an AJAX request client-side with IE .... or am I
missing
> something?
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> --
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> http://www.osgis.nl
>
>
> --------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
> Van: Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS <bartvde at osgis.nl>
> Naar: Andrew Larcombe <andrew at andrewlarcombe.co.uk>
> Cc: users at openlayers.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] loading XML problem
> Datum: 25/09/07 05:52
>
> > It seems responseText cannot deal with ISO-8859-1, so the only way to
do
> > that is to use responseXML.
> >
> >
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/b035fdea-8665-4d7b-80f0-3624d269e7b6.asp
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
> >
> > --
> > Bart van den Eijnden
> > OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> > http://www.osgis.nl
> >
> >
> > --------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
> > Van: Andrew Larcombe &lt;andrew at andrewlarcombe.co.uk&gt;
> > Naar:
> > Cc: users at openlayers.org
> > Onderwerp: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] loading XML problem
> > Datum: 24/09/07 19:44
> >
> > &gt;
> > &gt; On 24 Sep 2007, at 15:35, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
wrote:
> > &gt;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; This works fine (result = true):
> > &gt; &amp;gt;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; var url =
'http://www.osgis.nl/download/weggeg.xml';
> > &gt; &amp;gt; var xmlDoc=new
> ActiveXObject(&amp;quot;Microsoft.XMLDOM&amp;quot;);
> > &gt; &amp;gt; xmlDoc.async=false;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; result = xmlDoc.load(url);
> > &gt; &amp;gt;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; Whereas this does not work (result = false):
> > &gt; &amp;gt;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; var url =
'http://www.osgis.nl/download/weggeg.xml';
> > &gt; &amp;gt; OpenLayers.loadURL(url, null, this,
parseGetCapabilities);
> > &gt; &amp;gt;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; function parseGetCapabilities(ajaxRequest)
> > &gt; &amp;gt; {
> > &gt; &amp;gt; var text = ajaxRequest.responseText;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; var xmlDoc=new
> ActiveXObject(&amp;quot;Microsoft.XMLDOM&amp;quot;);
> > &gt; &amp;gt; xmlDoc.async=false;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; result = xmlDoc.loadXML(text);
> > &gt; &amp;gt; }
> > &gt; &amp;gt;
> > &gt; &amp;gt; result is false in this case with the parsing
error pointing
> to the
> > &gt; &amp;gt; special
> > &gt; &amp;gt; character.
> > &gt;
> > &gt; The difference looks to be in that in the first case the
ActiveX
> > &gt; control loads the contents of the xml file, whilst in the
second it
> > &gt; is passed the contents of the xml file as held in a
variable. If the
>
> > &gt; process of reading that file's contents into the variable
munge up
> > &gt; the xml somehow then that might be where your problem is.
> > &gt;
> > &gt; Can you attempt to further isolate the problem outside of OL
by
> > &gt; creating an AJAX request to your url, storing it in a
variable, then
>
> > &gt; loading it into the activex control using loadXML.
> > &gt;
> > &gt; Cheers,
> > &gt;
> > &gt; Andrew
> > &gt;
> > &gt; ---
> > &gt; Andrew Larcombe
> > &gt; Freelance Geospatial, Database &amp;amp; Web Programming
> > &gt;
> > &gt; web: http://www.andrewlarcombe.co.uk
> > &gt; email: andrew at andrewlarcombe.co.uk
> > &gt; icq: 306690163
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