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lukecrouch — 2004-11-29T09:15:41

is there a way to have either the cfxml tag or the ToString function exclude markup for empty elements? so if an element is:

it won't be written out to the XML string at all?

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frinky!!! — 2004-07-14T05:21:25

Answer to jonwrob: you should use the XMLFormat() function, which is exactly made for this type of thing.

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jonwrob — 2004-06-30T14:10:32

Is there a way for cfxml to escape illegal characters such as "&", "<", and ">" as the document is being parsed?

It appears that cfxml throws an error if any xml element contains an "&" character. What it should do is escape the character, that is, return "&". The alternative to doing this automatically is to add a call to a replace function for every piece of data that is in the xml document. Needless to say, this is highly inconvenient.

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Simon Whatley — 2004-03-26T02:12:59

I have the following code (see below). When I close the file in DWMX6.1 and reopen it again for editing, all the xml tags are stripped of their names! Can anyone tell me why? Many thanks.

SELECT packid,welcome_1,welcome_2,welcome_3,rules_1,rules_2,title,category_a,category_b,category_c,category_d
FROM tbl_packData
WHERE packid = #form.packid#

SELECT packid,cardid,title,description,score_a,score_b,score_c,score_d,image_url
FROM tbl_cardData
WHERE packid = #form.packid#

#getGamePack.welcome_1#
#getGamePack.welcome_2#
#getGamePack.welcome_3#
#getGamePack.rules_1#
#getGamePack.rules_2#
#getGamePack.title#
#getGamePack.category_a#
#getGamePack.category_b#
#getGamePack.category_c#
#getGamePack.category_d#

#getGameCards.title#
#getGameCards.description#
#getGameCards.score_a#
#getGameCards.score_b#
#getGameCards.score_c#
#getGameCards.score_d#
#getGameCards.image_url#

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halL — 2004-01-30T09:03:45

In ColdFusion MX 6.1, the cfxml tag converts the its body text into an internal XML document object, which is always stored in memory Unicode.
You use ToString to reconvert the document object to a text string, at which time ColdFusion automatically prepends the XML declaration.
To change the declaration to specify another encoding, use the Replace function.
To specify the encoding of the text that is returned to a browser or other application, use the cfcontent tag.
The following example shows this use:

Belgian Waffles
Our famous Belgian Waffles

#mynewvar#

(By the way, the cfprocessingdirective tag prevents ColdFusion from putting white space characters in front of the XML declaration.)

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0034 — 2004-01-29T01:02:14

how i can chage the encoding parameter?
like

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cliffyman — 2003-09-27T17:40:46

Precisely, since you'd have to wrap the entire area inside the CFXML tag with CFOUTPUT since the CFSETTING you indicate will hide all output not inside a CFOUTPUT tag.

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alancole — 2003-08-13T08:58:36

Addendum to above comment. My file had a tag above the code example. This appears to cause the 'root element missing' error message - If I remove the cfsetting tag, then there is no error.

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alancole — 2003-08-13T08:36:31

This code example does not work. It produces the following error: "Document root element is missing." Anyone know a work-around for the CFXML tag??