Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your suggestions, I've used the xmp tag and the DIV trick
and it now works a treat!

Thanks for your help

-Stu

On Jul 21, 3:07 pm, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21 juil, 15:47, Stuart_L <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Manolo,
>
> > Actually I think the problem may be due to the HTML form response
> > rather than the XML parser.
>
> > Our system works by using a FormPanel with a FileUpload object to
> > upload a zip file to a servlet. The servlet then processes this and
> > creates an XML file detailing the zip file contents. The FormHandler -
> > onSubmitComplete(FormSubmitCompleteEvent event) listener receives the
> > XML string response from the servlet.
> > However the problem is the FormSubmitCompleteEvent will only accept
> > content that is of MIME type text/html - it returns null if you try to
> > send back text/xml or application/xml.
>
> > So I think that as it is text/html being returned by the servlet it is
> > all being converted to lowercase as html is case-insensitive.
>
> Right, if you just send XML labeled as being text/html, it'll be
> parsed as HTML and then the FormPanel will re-serialize it with the
> help of the "innerHTML" property.
>
> > Does anyone have any other way to submit a zip file to a servlet and
> > return an XML string?
>
> You can try two things (amongst probably many others):
>  - prefix your XML with "<plaintext>" or wrap it within <xmp> (they
> are roughly equivalent to <![CDATA[]]> in the text/html world) and of
> course account for it when parsing with XMLParser
>  - HTML-escape your XML (i.e. &lt; instead of "<" and &amp; instead of
> "&") before sending it to the browser, that way it won't be parsed as
> HTML markup, but you'll have to un-escape it on the client side; to
> unescape, in your GWT code, you can create a dummy DIV element, set
> the form's result with setInnerHTML and get it back with getInnerText
> (or just do string replacements of &amp; and &lt;, but in my opinion
> the setInnerHTML/getInnerText is more robust re. non-Windows-1252
> characters, which the browser might convert into character references
> when serializing using innerHTML)
>
> ...of course, it's far easier to just not use square brackets and
> ampersands in your response... (e.g. JSON with \uXXXX-escaped "<" and
> "&"), and do not count too much on whitespace being preserved too.
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