Okay, if you post the document here I'll have a go loading it.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

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"JG" <jgeissman@s...> wrote in message 
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> Thanks Anthony, Joe and Martin in alphabetical order,
>
> I did some more research and see I'm using MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocument, not
> XML 6.  Turning off ProhibitDTD doesn't help with the !DOCTYPE.  It
> seems that  maybe because pDoc is a pointer to a pointer, (a) I can't
> look inside pDoc to see what the problem is, or maybe after throwing an
> exception on loadXML pDoc isn't in a fit state to examine, and (b) auto-
> suggest doesn't work so I can't find out what the name of
> ParseError.Reason is.  So I'm back to simply removing the two trouble-
> makers and giving up.  The !DOCTYPE probably doesn't work because it
> refers to a Fannie Mae DTD that's not on our system.  I wish I knew why
> the other one doesn't work, as it seems to in another place in the
> system that receives similar XML from a different service.
> Thanks again,
> Jim G
>
> In article <uHWABmolJHA.1248@T...>, mahotrash@y...
> says...
>> JG wrote:
>> > I'm updating a C++ app from VS2003, using MSXML6.  XML isn't one of my
>> > primary languages, so I'm having trouble with what is probably a very
>> > simple matter.
>> >
>> > I get XML replies from a web service that begin with <?xml ... ?> and
>> > then <! DOCTYPE ... > before we get to the root.  As long as those two
>> > are present, it refuses to load.  I can remove them from the string
>> > easily enough and then it loads, but I can't believe there isn't some
>> > parameter I could set that would cause them to be ignored.  Is there?
>>
>> With MSXML 6 for security reasons DTDs are disabled so you need to
>> enable them if you want to parse documents with DTDs (DOCTYPE). JScript
>> pseudo code
>>    var doc = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0');
>>    doc.setProperty('ProhibitDTD', false);
>>    doc.async = false;
>>    if (doc.load('file.xml'))
>>    {
>>      // now use file here
>>    }
>>    else
>>    {
>>      // check doc.parseError.reason
>>    }
>>
>>
>>