XML Content Deleted

[IncaWarrior]

I have an XML file that I use to store page hits for all the pages on my site through a script in the header of each page. A couple tiems so far the XML file has just been cleared completely and I've had to restore it from a backup.

Does anyone know what causes this? Would it be a scripting problem or a person or what?

[Khalid Ali]

tough call, though my first guess is that that there is some bug in the code that writes to XML file and in some cases it just empties it

[IncaWarrior]

There isn't much room for it to go wrong though, it just opens and closes it.

<%
On Error Resume Next
URI = Mid(Request.ServerVariables("URL"),11)
Set xmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load (server.mappath("pages.xml"))
Set cnode= xmlDoc.documentElement.SelectSingleNode("page[uri = '" & URI & "']")
cnode.childNodes(1).text = (CLng(cnode.childNodes(1).text)+1)
xmlDoc.save Server.Mappath("pages.xml")
%>

[Khalid Ali]

I am not a VB coder, but just a hunch, is there a code/command that you can use to append to a file rather re-writing it?
if so try that, I am guessing that should take care of if the problem is related to write...

[IncaWarrior]

there's an append but that adds things to the end of files.

This one opens the file, edits the appropriate node and saves the file.