XMIIMessageListener Issue in MII 14.0

[Former Member]

Hi Group,

I am trying to send an XML from my localhost to SAP MII server using the HTTP post.

I made a processing rule of transaction type and linked a transaction that has XML as input and string as output.

I made sure that the Message name is same as what I send in the URL.

But i get the following error:

Invalid XML in the payLoad; XML is not well formed

I am sending the code that I wrote. Please help me understand where I went wrong, as I have gone through all the forums about this and got the code etc from those forums only.

Please help, as this is an urgent requirement.

The code I am using is a php code:

<?php

//paste your XML file here

$xml = '

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE>

<shiporder>

  <orderID>1234</orderID>

  <orderperson>John Smith</orderperson>

</shiporder>';

$headers = array(

    "Content-type: text/xml",

    "Content-length: " . strlen($xml),

    "Connection: close",

);

// give the path of the Third party site

$url = "http://<server>:<host>/XMII/Illuminator?service=WSMessageListener&mode=WSMessageListenerServer&NAME=shiporder&IllumLoginName=<name>&IllumLoginPassword=<pswd>";

echo $xml;

echo $url;

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);

//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$output = curl_exec($ch);

echo $output;

curl_close($ch);

?>

Regards,

Gita

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Gita,

Are you sure there is no space when the XML is formed? when I use your XML ,

$xml= "
 <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>
<!DOCTYPE>
<shiporder>
  <orderID>1234</orderID>
  <orderperson>John Smith</orderperson>
</shiporder>";
echo '<pre>', htmlentities($xml), '</pre>';

the output gave me an XML with a space in front of it. This could be because of an extra line in the xml declaration.

Regards

Tufale Ashai.

[rutika_bodas]

Hi Gita,

Your xml is incorrect. Try pasting it in a notepad, save as abc.xml and run in a browser. You will see that it doesn't render in browser.

The reason is the <!DOCTYPE> tag in the xml! This is an HTML tag and is not valid in an xml.

Remove that and I guess your problem will be solved

Thanks,

Rutika

[Former Member]

Hi Rutika,

I would like to clear here that <!DOCTYPE> is a declaration (known as DTD) and can be used in XML as well. But for an XML, addition of the root element is a part of this declaration which is not there in the XML pasted by Gita, so if you correct that as I have mentioned in my earlier post, then also you can see the XML in your browser. Well, removing it will anyways solve the issue 🙂

Thanks & Regards,

Anuj

[rutika_bodas]

Anuj,

You are right. <!DOCTYPE> can be used in xmls also, with the root element.

I stand corrected.

-Rutika

[Former Member]

Hi Gita,

The error you are getting suggests that something is wrong with your XML structure.

As I can see, the DTD in your XML seems to be incorrect as it should be in the below format

<!DOCTYPE rootElementName>

so, in your case, it should be <!DOCTYPE shiporder>

Give it a try, hope it resolves your issue.

Best Regards,

Anuj

[Former Member]

Hi Anuj,

I tried doing that, but no change.

Have you done this before in 14.0 without any issues? is it necessary to mention a Schema, XPath for Message Name, XPath for Message UID in the configurations tab of Message Listeners?

I tried with and without it, does not help.

Experts please help.

Regards,

Gita

[Former Member]

Hi Gita,

No, I have not tried this in 14.0 and the possibilities for Schema, XPath etc. of Message Listener, you have already checked 😞

Regards,

Anuj