Form emailer and xml

[wegoodwin]

I have a form set up and if a user inputs their first name I want the email sent to have their first name surrounded by XML. I have tried this but it doesn't work(the email gets sent with the xml stripped out):

<cfoutput>
<firstname> #form.firstName# </firstname>
</cfoutput>

[Dan_Bracuk]

First, you don't need the cfoutput tag, cfmail includes this.

Second, are you sending the mail as text or html? If you are sending as html change the angle brackets to &lt; and &gt;.