CF9 - display .rtf file inline (conversion to something else okay)

Hello, everyone.
Just wondering if there is a way to display an .rtf file in a browser? Every method I've tried, so far, just asks the user to download the .rtf file.
If I have to convert it to something else (like XML), first, I can do that. The .rtf file does not reside in the filesystem, it's a binary in a BLOB in an Oracle database.
Thank you,
^_^

I'll look at the spec, thank you.
I Googled:
ColdFusion "convert rtf to xml"
"convert rtf to xml"
ColdFusion "display rtf inline"
... and a few others that I'm not recalling, right now. Most of the links I found (99%) were for "FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD", which I can't go anywhere near.
One of the links was to a forum where someone mentioned what I posted, earlier, about converting to XML, then using some built-in CF XML tag to parse. Can't find it, now, though.
^_^

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