Thanks again, I will try that. I have not managed to do away with the cfoutput tags however since often my XML return contains dynamically generated values, I think I therefore need the cfoutput.
But I discovered something else - and this is almost too stupid to comprehend and should be written on a warning sign when you install CF: in the CF admin under settings there is an option Enable Whitespace Management. Guess what - it wasn't checked. Seems unchecked by default. Checking it seems to eliminate *a lot* of leading whitespace issues I had. Could it be that without this checked the suppressWhiteSpace option of cfprocessingdirective does nothing at all? Regards, Stefan On 24 Mar 2009, at 16:10, Dave Watts wrote: > >> So basically I am not doing anything inherently wrong, correct? > > No, not really. > >> When you say 'easier just to get rid of whitespace at design time >> if I care about it, ' >> what do you mean by that? Design time as in when it arrives on the >> FMS side? > > No, I mean on the CF side: > > <cfxml variable="userXML"><result action="none" > status="error"><message>no action defined</message></result></cfxml> > > <cfcontent reset="yes"><cfoutput>#userXML#</cfoutput> > > The CFCONTENT tag will clear the output buffer so that you don't have > any whitespace from the previous empty lines. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/flex/message.cfm/messageid:5835 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/flex/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.37
