Every coldfusion tag that doesn't generate output (cfset, cfloop, cfif) is going to be a blank line in your output file. I suppose if you need to change it, you could surround those lines with
<cfsetting enableoutputonly="true"> <cfset something = "else"> <cfsetting enableoutputonly="false"> andy -----Original Message----- From: daniel kessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: extra lines in rss I have an rss feed and recently, while validating, I noticed that it has alot of blank lines in it - about 40 per item. I've not ben able able to figure out why so far. Any pointers would be great. Here's the code: <cfquery name="retrieve_xml" datasource="dch"> SELECT header,description,id,start_date FROM HH_CLNDR WHERE start_date >= sysdate ORDER BY start_date ASC </cfquery> <cfsavecontent variable="xml"><?xml version="1.0" ?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>The School of Public Health - Calendar of Events (The University of Maryland)</title> <description>This is the University of Maryland's School of Public Health Calendar of Events.</description> <link>http://sph.umd.edu</link> <cfoutput query="retrieve_xml"> <!--- just clean for the xml, not for the db ---> <cfset a_header = CleanChars(header)> <cfset a_desc = CleanChars(description)> <CF_RENoTags input="#a_desc#" variable="a_desc" > <CF_RENoTags input="#a_header#" variable="the_header" > <cfset a_desc = replace(a_desc,"&","and","all")> <cfset a_header = replace(a_header,"&","and","all")> <CFIF LEN(a_desc) gt desc_length> <CFSET desc = LEFT(a_desc,desc_length)> <cfset desc = ListDeleteAt(desc, ListLen(desc, " "), " ")> <!--- deletes to the last full word ---> <cfset desc = desc & "..."> <cfelse> <CFSET desc = description> </CFIF> <cfset the_header = "#the_header# DATE: #dateformat(start_date,'long')#"> <item> <title>#the_header#</title> <description>#desc#</description> <link>http://sph.umd.edu/calendar_event.cfm?id=#id#</link> <guid>http://sph.umd.edu/calendar_event.cfm?id=#id#</guid> </item> </cfoutput> <cfoutput> </channel> </rss> </cfoutput> </cfsavecontent> <cffile action="write" file="#CurrentDir#rss/calendar.xml" output="#xml#" addnewline="no"> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292943 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
