Removing the XML declaration

[fx910]

(I accidentally posted this to the Getting Started forum - apologies for the duplication.)

I am setting up a CMS that will take articles stored in XML and insert them into the middle of a predefined HTML page. The concept is essentially as per the appended code.

However, this causes two problems: first, the XML declaration is outputted. Second, it outputs the <content></content> tags.

It is possible to overcome this by converting the XML to text with the toString() function then doing a find and replace, but that seems so messy.

Does anyone have any ideas of how to use native CF functions to return only the contents - tags and all - of an XML structure, but without the XML declaration or parent tag?

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[Newsgroup_User]

Does anyone have any ideas of how to use native CF functions to return
only the contents - tags and all - of an XML structure, but without the
XML declaration or parent tag?


If I understand your requirement correctly, I would probably just use
the CFML xmlTransform() function to process the XML data with an XSLT
string to return the formated data that I wanted to output.

This should give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

<cfsavecontent variable="someXSLT">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><!--
DWXMLSource="../../../ColdFusion/playground/test.xml" --><!DOCTYPE
xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
<!ENTITY copy "&#169;">
<!ENTITY reg "&#174;">
<!ENTITY trade "&#8482;">
<!ENTITY mdash "&#8212;">
<!ENTITY ldquo "&#8220;">
<!ENTITY rdquo "&#8221;">
<!ENTITY pound "&#163;">
<!ENTITY yen "&#165;">
<!ENTITY euro "&#8364;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl=" http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
doctype-system=" http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>

<xsl:template match="/article/content">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet></cfsavecontent>

<cfset outputString = xmlTransform(xmlDate,someXSLT)>