Parse Input Stream into DOM object.

whats the code sending the post look like?

If I do the decode first then I'm OK.  No exception.

Now another question:  I have a document as a result of this line of code

Document doc = docBuilder.parse(input);

How do I iterate through the elements in the document?  So far, every attempt I have made results in EXCEPTION: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Not yet implemented

I'm using this code:
NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("parms");
    for(int i=0; i<nodeList.getLength(); i++){
        Node childNode = nodeList.item(i);
        Log_Message("XXXXXX = " + childNode.getNodeValue());
    }

I get this exception trying to excute
1) childNode.getTextContent(); OR
2) childNode.toString(); OR
3) childNode.getNodeValue()

> If I do the decode first then I'm OK.

how exactly are you 'decoding' it?

Here's the decode code:

       // Get the input string for the POST request object.
        InputStreamReader input = new InputStreamReader(request.getInputStream());

        // Get the length of the data, then create a buffer of that
        // size to handle it, then read the data that was POSTed.
        int read_len = request.getContentLength();
        char[] cbuf = new char[read_len];
        input.read(cbuf);

        // Convert it to a string and decode it.
        String Encoded_XML = new String(cbuf);
        String XML = URLDecoder.decode(Encoded_XML, "UTF-8");

are you url encoding it before sending?

yes. I have the problem fixed. Thanks!

what was it?

Sorry. The decoding.  I was not decoding it.  UTF-8.   I decode and everything is fine.

Why?   I thought I would need to.  Or is it that XML by definition does not need to be encoded because it's all ASCII.

Thanks!  

only needs to be encoded when using GET (as it needs to go into the url)
You can pass whatever you want in a POST

OK.  Thanks.  Why is there a POST and a GET?  What's the main differences?

Yes.  Thanks. No encoding/decoding works fine!!