First, welcome, and wrap your code in <code></code> tags.

From your description, it seems like all you needed to post was the first 7 or 8 lines of code, and I have no idea what xmlFileData() is doing, but my guess is that it's not returning what you want it to return, maybe because you're not passing what you think you're passing to it. I'd check the values of the arguments you're passing to it to make sure they are what you think they are (maybe an errant linefeed or other control character is sneaking in?) Is "getConfig()" supposed to be a string, or should it be a function call?.

In reply to Re: problems with xml data being returned by runrig
in thread problems with xml data being returned by grashoper

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