I found the answer after some trial and error and digging around! It turns out, this character which is creating problem is something called as Byte-Order-Mark and in an XML document, it is used to flag the encoding type of the XML. Unfortunately, ColdFusion does not appreciate the use of this Byte-Order-Mark, or BOM. In order to get this kind of XML feed to play nicely with ColdFusion, we have to remove the BOM before we parse the document. Luckily, getting rid of this requires nothing more than a simple regular expression that strips out all characters before the first bracket. Source and credit goes to: http://blog.webvirtue.com/2009/05/coldfusion-xml-parsing.html
Finally here is the code that worked: <cfhttp url="http://www.empiretheatres.com/rss/showtimes/43"; method="get"></cfhttp> <cfset RSS = REReplace( cfhttp.filecontent, "^[^<]*", "", "all" )> <cfset objRSS = xmlParse(RSS)> Rick Webenergy www.webenergy.ca -----Original Message----- From: Rick Sanders [mailto:c...@webenergy.ca] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 10:57 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Parsing RSS feeds Hey all, I have code for parsing feeds that works very well on several feeds. <cfhttp url="http://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada-novascotia.xml " method="get"></cfhttp> <cfset objRSS = xmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent)> <cfoutput>#objRSS#</cfoutput> <cfdump var="#objRSS#"> However, when I use the same code to parse the following feed it causes an error: <cfhttp url="http://www.empiretheatres.com/rss/showtimes/43"; method="get"></cfhttp> <cfset objRSS = xmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent)> <cfoutput>#objRSS#</cfoutput> <cfdump var="#objRSS#"> The error: Content is not allowed in prolog. The error occurred in E:\Websites\ConnectNS\testrss.cfm: line 11 9 : <p>Empire Theatres RSS:</p> 10 : <cfhttp url="http://www.empiretheatres.com/rss/showtimes/43"; method="get"></cfhttp> 11 : <cfset objRSS = xmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent)> 12 : <cfoutput>#objRSS#</cfoutput> 13 : <cfdump var="#objRSS#"> Can anyone help point me in the right direction? I'm perplexed! Google, Yahoo, and the browser parse the feed fne! Thanks, Rick Webenergy www.webenergy.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341296 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
