Root element is missing

[deepak]

Hi All,

i am getting the error "root element is missing in the below code at line
xdoc.LoadXml(Trim(sxp_message))..Kinldy help me if i need to chnage this
code...This code is giving me correct xml (i checked in quickwatch) and it
seems that it has every thing corrrect then why this error coming.
Is it due to use of Request .InputStream?SHould i need to write these 5-6
top lines(in page load) code in diffrent way?

Kindly tell me please as i am new to .net.If pssoible then tell me by
writing the exact code please as i am stuck here from 2 days.

****************CODE************************************
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim smsrequest As New SendRequest
Dim smsservice As New SmsApiService
Dim smsresponse As SendResponse

Dim strmread As StreamReader
Dim sxp_message As String
Dim all_message As String
Dim error_message As String

Dim sms_text As String
Dim assign_start As DateTime
Dim engno As String
Dim sms_title As String


Dim xdoc As New XmlDocument
Dim root As XmlElement
Dim xnodes As XmlNodeList
Dim xnode As XmlNode

Dim username As String
Dim password As String
Dim tariff As String
Dim accname As String
Dim charFilter As String
Dim Messagelen As Integer


Try
username = Request.Params("USER")
password = Request.Params("PASSWORD")
tariff = Request.Params("TARIFF")
accname = Request.Params("ACCNAME")
charFilter = Request.Params("CFILTER")
If charFilter = "" Then ' by default set character filter as OFF
charFilter = "OFF"
End If

strmread = New StreamReader(Request.InputStream)
sxp_message = strmread.ReadToEnd
strmread.Close()

all_message = System.DateTime.Now & vbCrLf & "SXP from Click
IM:" & vbCrLf & sxp_message & vbCrLf
xdoc.LoadXml(Trim(sxp_message))

root = xdoc.DocumentElement

xnodes = root.GetElementsByTagName("Engineer")
assign_start = root.Item("Assignment").InnerText
root = root.Item("Task")

If root Is Nothing Then
Throw New local_exception("Unable to locate Task tag")
End If

sms_text = "ID: " &
root.Item("NOCRefID").InnerText.TrimStart("0") & vbCrLf
sms_text = sms_text & "Eq.Typ: " &
Trim(root.Item("EquipmentType").InnerText) & vbCrLf
sms_text = sms_text & "Site: " &
Trim(root.Item("Site").InnerText) & vbCrLf
sms_text = sms_text & "Prio: " &
Trim(root.Item("Priority").InnerText) & vbCrLf
sms_text = sms_text & "Start: " & Format(assign_start,
"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") & vbCrLf
sms_text = sms_text & "Act: " &
Trim(root.Item("SubType").InnerText) & vbCrLf

sms_title = root.Item("Title").InnerText
If charFilter = "ON" Then
filterSMSChar(sms_title) ' if character Filter is ON. Filter
SMS title
End If

sms_text = sms_text & "Title: " & sms_title

smsrequest.correlationId = "WFMSMS"
smsrequest.originatorAlpha = True

smsrequest.originatingAddress = "WFM" '"#MSISDN:"
smsrequest.dcs = 25 'Changed from -1 to 25 for extended
character support
smsrequest.pid = -1
smsrequest.relativeValidityTime = -1
smsrequest.statusReportFlags = -1
smsrequest.deliveryTime = "#NULL#"
If accname = "" Then
smsrequest.accountName = "bronze" 'use bronze channel if
nothing is specified
Else
smsrequest.accountName = accname
End If

smsrequest.blocking = True
smsrequest.tariffClass = Trim(tariff)
smsrequest.referenceId = "#NULL#"
smsrequest.contentCategory = "#NULL#"
smsrequest.username = Trim(username)
smsrequest.password = Trim(password)

smsservice.Timeout = 60 * 5 * 1000
smsservice.Proxy = New
System.Net.WebProxy("www-proxy.ericsson.se", 8080)


For Each xnode In xnodes
engno = xnode.InnerText
engno = Replace(engno, "+", "", , , CompareMethod.Text)
engno = Replace(engno, " ", "", , , CompareMethod.Text)
engno = engno.TrimStart("0")
smsrequest.destinationAddress = Trim(engno)
'-------------------------------------------------------------
smsservice.RequestEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode
smsrequest.userDataHeader = "0500030F"
Dim no_of_packets As Integer
Dim sequence_no As Integer
no_of_packets = Math.Ceiling(sms_text.Length / 68)
For sequence_no = 1 To no_of_packets
smsrequest.userData = Mid(sms_text, (68 * (sequence_no -
1) + 1), 68)
smsrequest.userDataHeader = "0500030F" &
no_of_packets.ToString("D2") & sequence_no.ToString("D2")

'-------------------------------------------------------------
smsresponse = smsservice.send(smsrequest)
If smsresponse.responseCode <> 0 Then
Throw New local_exception("IPX response (" &
smsresponse.responseCode & ") " & smsresponse.responseMessage)
End If
smsrequest.tariffClass = "SEK0"
Next
Next
'-------------------
all_message = all_message.Concat(all_message, vbCrLf & "Date
time: " & System.DateTime.Now & vbCrLf, "Response from IPX:" & vbCrLf &
smsresponse.responseCode & smsresponse.responseMessage & vbCrLf & vbCrLf)
'------------------
write_logs(all_message, "", "SMSContentProviderLog_" &
Format(System.DateTime.Today, "yyyy_MM_dd") & ".txt", "Outbound")
Response.Write("<MessageResult Status=""1"" />")
Catch ex As Exception
error_message = ex.Message
write_logs(all_message, error_message, "SMSContentProviderLog_"
& Format(System.DateTime.Today, "yyyy_MM_dd") & ".txt", "Outbound")
Response.Write("<MessageResult Status=""2"" />")
End Try

End Sub
Function filterSMSChar(ByRef sms_title As String)

Dim titleBuffer As Char
Dim validChar As String =
"@ΔSP0¡P¿p£_!1AQaq$Φ""2BRbr¥Γ#3CScsèΛ¤4DTdtéΩ%5EUeuùΠ&6FVfvìΨ'7GWgwòΣ(8HXhxÇΘ)9IYiyLFΞ*:JZjzØ1)+;KÄkäøÆ,<LÖlöCRæ-=MÑmñÅß.>NÜnüåÉ/?O§oà|^€{}PB[~]\"
Dim titleEnum As CharEnumerator
titleEnum = sms_title.GetEnumerator
Do While titleEnum.MoveNext
If validChar.IndexOf(titleEnum.Current) = -1 Then
sms_title = sms_title.Replace(titleEnum.Current, " ")
End If
Loop
End Function

End Class

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Again Thanks in advance and helping me,
Deepak