http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T13:18:47 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt2122.htm#57633 A bug report has been submitted against the BOM issue reported by GWF. halL 1 1 2006-12-11T13:04:41 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt2122.htm#57628 XMLPares() will throw an error if the .XML contains the UTF-8 BOM. It should just ignore this. GWF 0 0 2006-12-11T11:04:53 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt2122.htm#53998 This is helpful to see a quick view of your returned xml doc.<br /><cfdump var="#myXMLDocument#"> 0 0 2006-10-07T09:58:08 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt2122.htm#24361 To clear up the above statement. It seems the problem arose from a file I got with an incorrectly formed 'doctype' tag. 0 0 2004-11-23T07:49:22 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt2122.htm#24192 Something I was just made painfully aware of (you know how hard it is to debug the very detailed NullPointer exception) is that if you parse a malformed XML, CFMX won't throw an error. My XMLSearch funcs were giving me NullPointers. Word to the wise: Use IsXmlDoc after XmlParse, because try/catch doesn't work in this situation!! 0 0 2004-11-19T06:12:47 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt2122.htm#2117 To convert an XML document object (struct) back into a string, use ToString(). cameroncf 0 0 2003-09-24T10:31:41