Displaying XML

[Carole MacDonald]

There have been lots of posts on this topic, but I haven't been able
to apply any of the suggestions to my situation.

I have an .aspx page with a form on it that has several submit buttons
on it. Clicking a button will cause a web service action that returns
XML. I would like to display this XML response on the page with the
form. I know I can display XML in an IFRAME by pointing its source to
an XML file. But I'm streaming the XML dynamically. I also saw a
suggestion to have the IFRAME's src point to the aspx page that loads
the XML. Again, that won't work because I'm displaying the response
to a form action in the IFRAME.

If someone could give me an example or pointers to displaying XML in
an IFRAME (or any other way) on a page with a form in response to a
form action, I would appreciate it. BTW, when I say "displaying XML",
I mean having IE render it the same as if you open an XML file
directly in IE.

Thanks,
Carole

 

[Kevin Spencer]

I also saw a

suggestion to have the IFRAME's src point to the aspx page that loads
the XML. Again, that won't work because I'm displaying the response
to a form action in the IFRAME.

Actually, that will work, as long as you set the Response.ContentType of the
ASPX page to "text/xml". Because the file requested has an .aspx extension,
you must inform the browser that it is not HTML, but XML.

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