Ensure you XMLFormat() everything.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Barney Boisvert To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Apr 06 19:23:34 2007 Subject: Re: CFXML - What am I doing wrong Looks like you've got a #chr(28)# somewhere in your content. That's not a legal character in an XML doc, so you have to escape it somehow. cheers, barneyb On 4/6/07, Joel Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody tell me what's wrong with this code? > > I have a podcast that uses exactly the same format (with different tags, obviously) and works fine. With this one, however, I am simply trying to create a basic feed and I continue to get this error: > > An error occured while Parsing an XML document. > An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1c) was found in the element content of the document. > > The error occurred in updatefeed.cfm: line 32 > > 30 : </item> > 31 : </cfoutput> > 32 : </cfloop> > 33 : </channel> > 34 : </rss> > > > Here is my code: > > <cfquery name="Post" datasource="#request.dsn#"> > SELECT * > FROM Posts > ORDER BY PostDate Desc > LIMIT 10 > </cfquery> > > <CFXML VARIABLE="EDXML" casesensitive="no"> > > <rss version="2.0"> > <channel> > <title>Exist~Dissolve</title> > <link>http://www.existdissolve.com/</link> > <description>The Singularity of Being and Nothingness</description> > <language>en-us</language> > <pubDate><cfoutput>#Post.PostDate#</cfoutput></pubDate> > <lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:41:01 GMT</lastBuildDate> > <webMaster>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</webMaster> > > <cfloop query="Post"> > <cfoutput> > <item> > > <title>#Post.PostTitle#</title> > <link>http://existdissolve.com/index.cfm?postid=#Post.ID#</link> > <description>#Post.PostContent#</description> > <pubDate>#LSDateFormat(Post.PostDate, 'ddd, dd mmm YYYY' )# #TimeFormat(Post.PostDate, 'HH:mm:ss')# GMT</pubDate> > <guid>http://existdissolve.com/index.cfm?postid=#Post.ID#</guid> > > </item> > </cfoutput> > </cfloop> > </channel> > </rss> > </cfxml> > > <cffile action="write" file="#ExpandPath('existdissolvefeed.xml')#" output="#ToString(EDXML)#"> > <cflocation url="index.cfm"> > > > > > > Thanks! > > Joel > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:274707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4