Re: posting xml to xsv

Donna Bergmark <bergmark@CS.Cornell.EDU> writes:

> Hello, 
> I wish to use xsv to validate submissions to the Open Archive Initiative.
> Therefore, I would like to use your service from a cgi script.  I have
> attempted a POST to your url, with the content set to docFile=filename,
> style=text.  What I get back from the validator is:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/Jigsaw/Jigsaw/WWW/cgi-bin/new-xmlschema-check", line 250, in ?
>     serveRequest()
>   File "/usr/local/Jigsaw/Jigsaw/WWW/cgi-bin/new-xmlschema-check", line 155, in serveRequest
>     data = upFile.file.read()
> AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'read'
> 
> It would appear that it is not picking up the docFile value.  To check
> it out, I decided to use the form itself, interactively.  It did nothing.
> The file in question is world-readable.  
> 
> What could be wrong?  Donna

Arghh -- are you using Netscape?  I just discovered that although the
Browse/Upload/POST approach is working from my IE5/Win2K box, it is
_not_ working from my Netscape-4.76/UN*X box -- too late in the day to 
debug this now -- any additional information from anyone else out
there would be welcome.

ht
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Received on Monday, 8 January 2001 13:19:05 UTC