wzhao2000@g... wrote:

> forgot to mention how I checked returned char: if the char is correct,
> it's displayed as " ß " in the WScript.Echo message box, otherwise
> it's displayed as " ß "

I have created a test XML document that is UTF-16 encoded and uploaded 
it here:
<http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml>

Then I have written the following JScript program to be executed with 
WSH (e.g. cscript):

function checkXml (url) {
   var prefix = 'Msxml2';
   var versions = [ '3.0', '4.0', '5.0', '6.0'];
   var ids = ['XMLHTTP', 'ServerXMLHTTP'];
   var result = [];
   for (var i = 0; i < versions.length; i++) {
     var version = versions[i];
     for (var j = 0; j < ids.length; j++) {
       var id = ids[j];
       var programId = prefix + '.' + id + '.' + version;
       result.push('Requesting ' + url + ' with ' + programId + ':');
       try {
         var httpRequest = new ActiveXObject(programId);
         httpRequest.open('GET', url, false);
         httpRequest.send(null);
         result.push('HTTP status code: ' + httpRequest.status + ' ' + 
httpRequest.statusText);
         if (httpRequest.responseXML && 
httpRequest.responseXML.parseError.errorCode == 0) {
           result.push('responseXML serialized:');
           result.push(httpRequest.responseXML.xml);
         }
       }
       catch (e) {
         result.push('Error ' + e.message + ' with ' + programId);
       }
       result.push('\r\n');
     }
   }
   return result.join('\r\n');
}

function main () {
   for (var i = 0; i < WScript.Arguments.length; i++) {
     WScript.Echo(checkXml(WScript.Arguments(i)));
   }
}

main();

When I run that here from the command line as passing in the above URL 
as an argument I get the following flawless results for MSXML 3, 4, 5, 6:

Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.4.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.5.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



Requesting http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2005100101.xml 
with Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0:
HTTP status code: 200 OK
responseXML serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root>
         <text xml:lang="de">ß</text>
         <text xml:lang="de">ä</text>
</root>



So at least with responseXML I can't reproduce any problem. Do you get 
any different result for the sample XML document with your version of 
MSXML 4?
If not can you post a URL to an XML document that causes the problem 
with MSXML 4 ServerXMLHTTP?


Note the followup-to is set to microsoft.public.xml only.


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	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/