>As far as I know, CF will not encode HTML unless you tell it to. Are >you 100% sure you aren't using htmlEditFormat on the data?
I have traced the XML value from start to end, and it appears that the place where the HTML is being converted is when I write the XML to disk. I am dumping the XML to the page all throughout the process, and it looks correct all the way until I write it to the file. Before the file write the XML has the plain HTML, but once written to the file the HTML is converted to entity characters. Here's what I'm doing: <cffile action="write" file="D:\parksMapFiles\parks.xml" output="#toString(parksXML)#"> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:336852 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm

