> > file and your original XML file are both well-formed?
>
> Even if they are not, the parser should be good enough to
> parse what it can and ignore with notes of what it can't.
> Same as when we write a program we need to add data
> validation element. Reasonable?
Unfortunately for you, that's not how XML parsers work. If a file isn't
well-formed, for any reason at all, the XML parser will not recognize it as
XML. In fact, you could argue that it's not XML if it's not well-formed - it
just looks a lot like XML.
This is one of the defining characteristics of XML, and is one of the
reasons for its ubiquity. XML parsers can be much smaller than HTML parsers,
for example, because they are intolerant of malformed documents.
> Besides, in this case, the XSL files are not up to me whether
> they are well-formed or not.
If you're getting them from somewhere else, they probably are well-formed,
but perhaps you're appending data to them accidentally. For example, it's
common to accidentally append debug output when serving XML documents via
CF.
> Thank for the great info. I haven't looked at / familarize
> myself with these new tags. Funny, when I viewed sample for
> the XMLtransform tag, I got an another MM error (they guys
> don't seem to give a sh?? these days or is it just me?)
> URL, http://examples.macromedia.com/coldfusion/xmltransform/?
I didn't see any errors there. Fortunately, there isn't much about
XMLTransform that you need to know to use it, usually.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
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