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XML Error -1072896682 What is wrong, never had an error in two months, not it does.

I have an XML feed coming in from the outside to post information on my website:

http://secure.pharmacytimes.com/services/Recent_Courses.asp

Now out of nowhere after two months of getting the feed and displaying it properly, I get this error this morning... I saw it working perfectly fine as of last night and didn't touch anything. Now this morning I am getting this error:

-- ErrorCode: -1072896682
ErrorReason: Invalid at the top level of the document.

Here is my code that displays the page:
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<CFHTTP method="GET" url="http://secure.pharmacytimes.com/services/Recent_Courses.asp?count=5" path="D:\InetPub\pharmacy\web" file="pt_ce_recent.xml" timeout="30" >

<cfobject action="CREATE" type="COM" class="Microsoft.XMLDOM" name="objXMLDOM">

<cfset XMLInputFile = "D:\InetPub\pharmacy\web\pt_ce_recent.xml">

<CFSET objXMLDOM.LOAD(XMLInputFile)>

<CFSET colBookList = objXMLDOM.getElementsByTagName("course")>

<TR valign="top">
<TD> </TD>
<TD class="blurbs"><strong>Course Name</strong></TD>
<TD class="blurbs" align="center"><strong>Course Units</strong></TD>

</TR>

<CFLOOP COLLECTION="#colBookList#" Item="course">

<CFSET CE_Title = course.SelectSingleNode("course_name")>
<CFSET CE_URL = course.SelectSingleNode("course_url")>
<CFSET CE_Units = course.SelectSingleNode("course_units")>
<CFSET CE_Fee = course.SelectSingleNode("course_fee")>

<CFOUTPUT>
<TR valign="top">
<TD width=7><IMG alt=* hspace=5 src="../images/imgArwrt.gif" vspace=5 border=0 width="7" height="7"></A></TD>
<TD class="blurbs"><a href="#CE_URL.Text#" target="_blank">#CE_Title.Text#</a></TD>
<TD class="blurbs" align="center">#CE_Units.Text#</TD>

</TR>
</CFOUTPUT>

</CFLOOP>


<cfset XMLErr = objXMLDOM.parseError>
<cfoutput>
<cfif XMLErr.errorcode NEQ 0>--
ErrorCode: #XMLErr.errorcode#<br>
ErrorReason: #XMLErr.reason#
</cfif>
</cfoutput>

jeffmace

ASKER

Now I refreshed the page and its all better. About an hour passed and it fixed itself.. Whys that??

CFXPERT

Thats a strange one alright. Was the browser left open to any specific page that might be using sessions or application variables?

jeffmace

ASKER

Now I refreshed the page and its all better. About an hour passed and it fixed itself.. Whys that??

jeffmace

ASKER

I tried this it on about 4 different computers. Even two that were never to this page one time.... The problem existed for about 3 hours and I never corrected one line of code.. I have no idea on how it can fix itself or why it would error in the first place.

jeffmace

ASKER

now one works and one doesn't.... this is killing me.. this is only like 20 minutes later

Yog

verify if XML is in proper format, the reason tells the XML is in correct format which means you are not getting an XML file sometimes.

When you are getting the error, just see how the XML file looks and we will be able to correct from there.

jeffmace

ASKER

when you say not getting an xml file sometimes, do you mean that i am not getting the feed from the provider correctly or my code above is not producing the file correctly??

Yog

not getting the feed from provider correcly , not loaded properly..

Yog

coz the top line is <?xml version="1.0" ?> and it might not be getting it as an XML file

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jeffmace

ASKER

I am going to try this... I still don't understand though how this can work without problems for over two months and then all of a sudden two completely diffent feeds get affected overnight without anything being touched.

jeffmace

ASKER

jeffmace

ASKER

Also do you have any examples on how to read the file so that I can parse it and give it the look I created... Also does anyone maybe have a better Idea on how to handle the XML feed? Is the code I am using not the best way to do this?

jeffmace

ASKER

Wow.. how stupid was this... It wasn't anything wrong on my end... My ISPs DNS servers weren't allowing this in... So they rebooted their DNS servers and everything is back to normal.. I know it had to be something strange for this to stop working so suddenly.

Thanks anyhow
Jeff

jeffmace

ASKER

Thank you for your time.