http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-26T03:02:56 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000310.htm#65354 it seems like default value is required because i keep getting the following error:<br />This page uses the CFPARAM tag to declare the parameter ABC as required for this template. The parameter is not available.Please verify that you have passed or initialized the parameter correctly. If you wish to set a default value for the parameter you should use the DEFAULT attribute of the CFPARAM tag.<br /><br />when i have <cfparam name="abc" type="string"><br /><br />the documentation says that it is an optional parameter shahzad 0 0 2007-04-13T13:25:53 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000310.htm#27642 Thanks. I added bug 59809 for this. jrunrandy 1 1 2005-02-09T14:01:28 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000310.htm#27640 The type="xml" was added in CFMX 7, but not listed in the history. pete_freitag 0 0 2005-02-09T13:44:42