This is the "right" way to do it, in general: <cfsavecontent var="content"> #chr(60)#cfoutput> <li>...</li> #chr(60)#/cfoutput> </cfsavecontent>
It's kind of ugly, however, and this will often work: <cfsavecontent var="content"> [cfoutput> <li>...</li> [/cfoutput> </cfsavecontent> <cfset content = replace(content, "[cf", "<cf", "all") /> cheers, barneyb On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:02 AM, daniel kessler <dani...@umd.edu> wrote: > > I want to generate a file (by code) that has CF tags in it so that it can be > included into another file. I can write in the # by escaping them, but I > also want to escape the cold fusion tags so that they're not enacted when I > write the file, but rather when that generated file is included in another > file. > > <cfsavecontent variable="xml_counts"> > <ul style="margin-top:-10px;"> > <cfloop condition="ea_date gte start_date"> > > <cfoutput> > <--- > I don't want the following cfoutput tag to be enacted by rather written into > the file, > so that when it's included into another file, it has the cfoutput > tag to work. I need to escape the tag. How to do that? > ---> > <cfoutput> > <li><a href='##the_page##?archive=#the_content#</li> > > </cfoutput> > </cfloop> > </ul> > </cfsavecontent> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333859 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
