Hi guys, i am getting responseText instead of responseXML from the
servlet eventhough i hv specified the content type as "text/xml" and
also using out.write() command. This is what i am getting in IE but in
Firefox 3 i get readystae code as undefined after 1 while in IE i get
all the codes right.

below is my servlet code for doGet

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response)
   throws ServletException, IOException {

           response.setContentType("text/xml");
           response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");

           PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

           try
           {

                   //con = openConnection();
                   con = connectionPool.getConnection();

                   out.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>");
                   out.write("<markers>");

                   out.write(queryDB(con));

                   out.write("</markers>");
                   out.close();

                   //out.close();
                   //closeConnection(con);
                   connectionPool.free(con);

           }
           catch (Exception e)
           {
                   e.printStackTrace();
           }
   }

Hi Parixit,

To get a exact responseXML for HttpXMLRequest you must send an XML
from the server side. I mean without any errors. For an example, in
theample code you have given doesn't have ending tag for XML tag (</
xml>) . And make sure the generated string by queryDB(con) doesn't
have symbols like "&". If you have it you have to use CDATA to pass
those strings. Otherwise XML will fail.
The code you have given is a serverside code. So it will be totally
independent on what browser you are using. To further problems to be
identified you must give us some client side codes like Javascript and
HTML etc (if that problem still exists).

Thank you.

On Sep 28, 5:26 pm, Parixit <parix...@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks phill i got around the xml problem but firefox is still giving
me problems. if i try to execute the script in firefox with firebug by
setting the brekpoints then i aactually get the valid readystate codes
but if the page is just fetched normally reaadystate code 2,3,4 are
all replced by 'undefined'. here is the client side javascript code

window.onload = makeRequest();
var xhr = false;
var map;
var z=0;
var tm=0;
function makeRequest() {
  alert("l0");
  var url="http://csci571.usc.edu:10968/examples/servlet/xmlGenerate";
document.getElementById("msgArea").innerHTML = "Loading........";
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        z=1;
        try {
        xhr = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
    } catch(e) {
                        try { xhr = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }
                        catch (e) { xhr=false;}
                }       }
                else{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        z=0;
        xhr.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
        alert("LLOOK");
  }
  }
alert("lf");
  if (xhr) {
        xhr.open("GET",url, true);
        xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
          showContents();
          };
        xhr.send(null);
  }
        else {   alert("le");
        //document.getElementById("messageArea").innerHTML = "Sorry, but I
couldn't create an XMLHttpRequest";
        }
  }

  function reftdata() {
  var url1="http://csci571.usc.edu:10968/examples/servlet/
xmlGenerate";
        alert("lrr");
        if (xhr) {
        xhr.open("GET", url1, true);
        xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
          showContents();
          };
        xhr.send(null);
        //setTimeout("reftdata()", 200000);
  }
        else {   alert("lre");
        //document.getElementById("messageArea").innerHTML = "Sorry, but I
couldn't create an XMLHttpRequest";
        }
        }

function load() {
<some code>
      }

function showContents() {
if (xhr.readyState == 3) {
document.getElementById("msgArea").innerHTML = "Recieving........";}
  alert("KKK :"+xhr.readyState);   ///
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<this alert gives me 'undefined'
after readystate 1. and there are lot of alert
                                                 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
at   this point when undefined comes. as is it hs got tuchk in a
infinte while loop.
        var outMsg="";
        var i=0;
        if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
          //alert("l3");
xhr.responseText;
                if (xhr.status == 200)
                {
<some code>

On Sep 30, 2:48 am, Phill-X <gllphill...@gmail.com> wrote: