I have an XML object that was populated from an XML file. This XML comes from
an external system that I do not control. Here is the bit of XML that I'm
struggling with:
<parks>
<park>
<SiteAbstract>
<![CDATA[<font color="#045172"><b>Loveridge Bridge North</b></font>]]>
</SiteAbstract>
</park>
</parks>
I know this is valid XML...at least it works in the system that uses it.
I am trying to write an updated value to this SiteAbstract tag, and the result
will show up in this external system. As you can see, the HTML inside the tag
is NOT htmlencodedformat, it's just plain HTML. Since SiteAbstract is using
the CDATA tag, this is fine.
The trouble is that when I try to insert HTML into this tag, ColdFusion is
converting the HTML to entity tags. Normally this would be fine, as people
usually don't want plain HTML in XML. But with this external system I need to
preserve the HTML as is. I have googled and dug in the docs for a while now
and I can't find a way to force ColdFusion to leave the HTML as is.
The only solution I have come up with (and this is NOT what I'd prefer to do)
is to do <cfloop file="myXMLfile.xml", search for the XML tag I need to update
(this part will be painful) and then manually change the XML tag contents and
save the XML to disk.
Any better ideas?
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