The following asp code sets up an object (xmlReq) to receive the XML file from the client:

Set xmlReq = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") xmlReq.load(Request) if xmlReq.parseError <> 0 then    Response.write xmlReq.parseError.reason end if

The object-name.load(Request) method takes the xml sent from the client using XMLHTTP and loads it to an XMLDOM object.

Once the XML is loaded to an object, the XML can be parsed. One can now

1. write it back to the client
2. save it to SQLServer
3. write it to a file

Here is an XML file stored as a textarea.

We can get a string of XML several ways:

1. A user may return an XML file as a string as part of a request (i.e., a string stored as the value of a name-value pair in a POST or GET request)
2. We can construct a string of xml in the asp program by building the string logically
3. We can build the XML string by retreiving data from SQL

To utilize the XMLDOM to manipulate the tree we must hand the XML string to the XMLDOM (regardless of how we created the XML string). Like this:

xmls="<toptag><first>1</first><second>2</second><third>3</third></toptag>" Set xmla = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") xmla.loadXML(xmls)

If the XML file is locally stored on the server, you can load the data from the file to the XMLDOM by using:

Set xmlsample = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") xmlsample.validateOnParse=True xmlsample.async=False xmlsample.load(Server.MapPath("xml4b.xml"))

Note that the Server.MapPath assume the XML file is stored in the same directory as the asp. Otherwise you must use the full path name (e.g., "c:\somedir\actualfilename.xml").