Data Islands with MSXML4.0

Try loading the data into the default DOMDocument object, retrieving its
contents as a string, and then using the loadXML method to explicitly load a
DOMDocument.4.0 object with the result. That should avoid the error message.

"Richard" <rpjolly@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3c7463fe$1@10.1.10.29...
>
> I've got an application that uses data islands to persist data on my page.
> I've got the IE5.5SP2 w/ MSXML4.0 parser running on the client machine.
> Here's the problem. When I try to access the setProperty method of the
> DOM object (in this case, my data island), I get the "invalid property or
> method" error message. I'm assuming that there is no way to tell IE which
> parser to use when loading the data island?? I know the MSXML4 parser is
> working because I can create DOMDocument objects in code(i.e. CreateObject
> "Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0"), but for my purposes, I need to use the data
island.
> Another idea I had was to load the xml from the data island into an
actual
> 4.0 DOMDocument, but my load method triggers an error that says, "Mixing
> MSXML Objects causes errors", or something like that... That's what made
> me suspect that IE is using an older version of the parser to load my data
> island...
>
> Any ideas?