need help with responsexml

Hi all,
 
I am having an issue with being able to work with an .xml across the network (will be a web service).
I have a function that takes in a object that has a url in it.  I do not have any issues getting to the web addresses and I know this because if I use  wscript.echo http.responsetext    it will show all of the xml file on the screen.
However when I try to use set xmlData = http.responsexml  so that I can start parsing the file, I keep getting object required errors.
 
for testing I did try doing a wscript.echo xmlData.xml  and this actually displayed xml for only 1 of the 4 addresses I passed to it.
I also tried using the other option of microsoft.xmlhttp       MSXML2.XMLHTTP and still same errors. 
 
Public Function isUpdated(update)
Dim HTTP, xmlData
Set HTTP = CreateObject("Microsoft.xmlhttp")
http.open "GET", update.uri, FALSE
http.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
http.send

set xmlData = http.responsexml
set childnodes = xmldata.documentelement.childnodes ' THIS IS WHERE I GET OBJECT ERRORS ON DOCUMENTELEMENT
 for each node in childnodes
    wscript.echo node.nodename
        next
set http = nothing
end Function
 
 
part of one of the xml files I am trying to parse is (I can't show all of the files as this is work related):
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <manifest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" manifestId="22739229-7e40-4e93-936f-6a35523b59fb" mandatory="No" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:PAG:updater-application-block:v2:manifest">

   </manifest>
 
I am only trying to grab the manifestId out of the files.... Any ideas?
Thanks!

Maybe a silly question, but is there actually a root element or are all of these elements just in the body of the XML document after the processing instructions?

I am not sure if I am following your question but here is more of what the xml's look like.
 
<manifest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" manifestId="22739229-7e40-4e93-936f-6a35523b59fb" mandatory="No" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:PAG:updater-application-block:v2:manifest">

  <description>Update - 12/9/2011 9:08:51 AM</description>

- <application applicationId="Client">
  <location>Incoming</location>

  </application>


-  <file source="XMLSchema.zip" transient="No" />
  <file source="ClientSettings.txt" transient="No" />

  </files>


- <activation>
</activation> - <tasks>
</tasks>



</manifest>
I have to omit a lot of the file information as Im not sure if I can get into any trouble from work, but that is the basic format.
I just tried this here again and it appears that I am having issues returning from 1  server (possibly different segment?).
If I do the following:
Public Function isUpdated(update)
Dim HTTP
Set HTTP = CreateObject("Microsoft.xmlhttp")
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.xmlDOM")
http.open "GET", update.uri, FALSE
http.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
http.send
xmldoc.async=false
xmldoc.load(http.responsexml)
set xmldoc = nothing
set xmlData = http.responsexml


 
 
 
It will print the xml from all the servers except one, it prints blank (probably null returned).
What doesn't make sense though is if I do set xmldata = http.responsetext
 
It will show the text from all servers if I print it.....
 
these .xmls  are all set up the same just in different locations in the network.

thenson81

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It will print the xml from all the servers except one, it prints blank (probably null returned).
What doesn't make sense though is if I do set xmldata = http.responsetext

It will show the text from all servers if I print it.....

these .xmls  are all set up the same just in different locations in the network.

The server is probably not giving you the proper content-type. Even if the file is a properly formatted xml, if the content-type does not match it will not be interpreted properly.

For example:

 Dim Dom : Set Dom = CreateObject("MSXML2.DomDocument.6.0") 
 With Dom 
 .async = False 
 .load "http://validator.w3.org/"  'Fail 
 .load "http://ht2012.org/" 'Success 
 WScript.Echo .documentElement.xml 
 End With 

Even though <http://validator.w3.org/> is a properly formatted XML file, the content-type is not set to be xml by the server, so it won't be interpreted as such.
<http://ht2012.org/> on the other hand is served with the proper mime-type by the server and works fine.

What to do? You could fix the server to return the proper mime-type. Alternatively, you could use XMLHTTP to get the .responseText and then pass that directly to

CreateObject("MSXML2.DomDocument.6.0").loadXML "xml string"

similar to how I have done above.

thanks for the replay.
What I have tried is saving them to temp . xml file and then loading that into xml object. 
 
I am not sure how your syntax is supposed to work but I tried it and it just gives me errors.
 
Thanks for your help
 
And now I am having issues with not being able to pull the manifestID line from here:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" manifestId="{1e95ea16-d7fc-422f-92f9-15f991a59f09}" mandatory="Yes" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:PAG:updater-application-block:v2:manifest">
 
isn't this just an attribute?  when it try to get attributes it says its an invalid method. 
 
 
 
set manifestNode = xmlDoc.getelementsbytagname("manifest")

for each n in manifestNode
wscript.echo  n.nodename
does print out "manifest"    buttrying to set  m = manifestNode.attributes   says its invalid

For the attribute, you have to use the .GetAttribute("attributeName") method of the xml node.
 
Is there a tag that contains the Manifest node?  As for the content-type, that should be something the webserver is passing to you.  I am not the most experienced with retrieving web XML data though.

set manifestNode = xmldoc.getelementsbytagname("manifest")
manifestProperties = manifestNode(0).getattribute("manifestId")
 
worked thanks a lot!  I didnt' know of the getattribute