dataset reading XML error...

OhioHoya · 04-26-2010

Okay - this is driving me crazy because I really need to get this working and have not been able to find the solution. Here is my setup:

1. I have an aspx page that simply generates an xml output stream. Code:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Response.Clear()
Response.ClearHeaders()
Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8

Dim xtwFeed As New XmlTextWriter(Response.OutputStream, Encoding.UTF

With xtwFeed
' Start the document
.WriteStartDocument()

'Do a sql data read and loop here. (will hard-code for now)
.WriteStartElement("News")
.WriteStartElement("NewsItem")
.WriteElementString("NewsID", "1")
.WriteElementString("Title", "Hobbits")
.WriteElementString("Image", "hobbits.jpg")
.WriteElementString("Text", "Hobbits fuel record DVD sales")
.WriteEndElement()

.WriteStartElement("NewsItem")
.WriteElementString("NewsID", "2")
.WriteElementString("Title", "Net favorite")
.WriteElementString("Image", "towers.jpg")
.WriteElementString("Text", "Online critics reward Two Towers")
.WriteEndElement()

.WriteStartElement("NewsItem")
.WriteElementString("NewsID", "3")
.WriteElementString("Title", "Here to stay")
.WriteElementString("Image", "cd.jpg")
.WriteElementString("Text", "Industry boss warning on illegal music")
.WriteEndElement()

.WriteStartElement("NewsItem")
.WriteElementString("NewsID", "4")
.WriteElementString("Title", "Eye spy")
.WriteElementString("Image", "Eye.jpg")
.WriteElementString("Text", "Pupils to be eye scanned at school")
.WriteEndElement()

' Close all tags
.WriteEndElement() ' News
.WriteEndDocument() ' Document
.Flush()
.Close()
End With
Response.End()

End Sub

2. The html code on this page is:

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="NewsFeed.aspx.vb" Inherits="NewsFeed" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head id="Head1" runat="server">

<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>

</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

3. The page that should be reading this xml stream has the following code:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

Dim ds As New System.Data.DataSet

ds.ReadXml("NewsFeed.aspx") ' <=== The following error happens here:
'Exception Details: System.Xml.XmlException: Name cannot begin with the '%' character, hexadecimal value 0x25. Line 2, position 2.

'(more code here but doesn't have anything to do with the error)

End Sub

Okay, I think I've tried almost every combination in changing these files. I have deleted the <html>, <head> and <body> tag areas. I have moved code around like crazy but still nothing works. If I call the xml (aspx) page in a browser it looks to work just fine. I have not moved this code to an actual web server - I have only been running this via dev. This shouldn't be an issue because I have a copy of xml output in a separate file called newsfeed.xml which works just fine on the dataset loadxml method. It just seems that I can't get rid of some prefix that is being sent when the NewsFeed.aspx page is called...

Can someone please help? I know this must be a simple thing to do and maybe I'm having a brain fart on this but I can't keep losing precious days of development on this problem.

Thanks, in advance, for the help!

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