Dear Odie,
May I make your example a bit more complicated by adding an additional complexType, please:
---Original ----
<DEPT>
<EMPID>1</EMPID>
<EMPNAME>Martin Chadderton</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>??</SALARY>
<SALARYq></SALARYq>
</DEPT>
----- New ----
<DEPT>
<EMPID>1</EMPID>
<EMPNAME>Martin Chadderton</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>??</SALARY>
<SALARYq></SALARYq>
<EMPLMNT_HISTORY>
<DEVISION>1</DEVISION>
<FROM_DATE>2011-01-01 </FROM_DATE>
<TO_DATE></TO_DATE>
</EMPLMNT_HISTORY>
</DEPT>
Your solution works perfectly for <SALARY>, but how would you suggest also to deal with <TO_DATE> ?
Massive thanks for your help!
N.B. Just to emphasise, in my case I have 3 levels (complexType > complexType > complexType) and many elements and I would like to know if there is any generic option to say
to remove all the empty elements from the result, as it causes to the SSJ (Systinet) Webservice to crash.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <chart showdates="true" today="08/12/2009"> <phases> <phase color="CCFFCC" name="Funded"/> <phase color="CDCD67" name="Concept"/> <phase color="99CCFF" name="Feasibility"/> <phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/> <phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/> <phase color="CC99FF" name="Close-out"/> <phase color="909090" name="Sustaining"/> </phases><program name=""> <project enddate=" 30/03/2007 " id="43250" startdate=" 28/02/2006 "> <version enddate=" 30/03/2007 " number=" 1" startdate=" 28/02/2006 "> <phase color="CCFFCC" currentdate="23/03/2006" name="Project Start" plandate="28/02/2006" type="phase"/> <phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="04/04/2006" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="31/05/2006" type="phase"/> <phase color="0099FF" currentdate="29/03/2007" name="Commercialization" plandate="30/12/2006" type="phase"/> <phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="30/03/2007" name="Project Closed" plandate="30/03/2007" type="phase"/> <phase color="909090" currentdate="" name="Obsolescence" plandate="" type="phase"/> </version> </project> </program> </chart>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><chart showdates="true" today="08/12/2009"><phases><phase color="CCFFCC" name="Funded"/><phase color="CDCD67" name="Concept"/><phase color="99CCFF" name="Feasibility"/><phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/><phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/><phase color="CC99FF" name="Close-out"/><phase color="909090" name="Sustaining"/></phases><program name=""><project enddate=" 30/03/2007 " id="43250" startdate=" 28/02/2006 "><version enddate=" 30/03/2007 " number=" 1" startdate=" 28/02/2006 "><phase color="CCFFCC" currentdate="23/03/2006" name="Project Start" plandate="28/02/2006" type="phase"/><phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="04/04/2006" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="31/05/2006" type="phase"/><phase color="0099FF" currentdate="29/03/2007" name="Commercialization" plandate="30/12/2006" type="phase"/><phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="30/03/2007" name="Project Closed" plandate="30/03/2007" type="phase"/><phase color="909090" currentdate="" name="Obsolescence" plandate="" type="phase"/></version> </project></program></chart>
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I have applied the solution what you suggested above (<cfprocessingdrirective suppresswhitespaces="yes"), still whitespaces are existing in my output.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<chart showdates="true" today="09/12/2009">
<phases>
<phase color="CCFFCC" name="Funded"/>
<phase color="CDCD67" name="Concept"/>
<phase color="99CCFF" name="Feasibility"/>
<phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/>
<phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/>
<phase color="CC99FF" name="Close-out"/>
<phase color="909090" name="Sustaining"/>
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<program name="">
<project enddate=" 01/01/2010 " id="12059" startdate=" 20/06/2003 ">
<version enddate=" 01/01/2010 " number=" 1" startdate=" 20/06/2003 ">
        <phase color="CCFFCC" currentdate="20/06/2003" name="Project Start" plandate="20/06/2003" type="phase"/>
        <phase color="CDCD67" currentdate="" name="Concept Closure" plandate="" type="phase"/>
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        <phase color="F0FF00" currentdate="26/07/2004" name="Beta Test" plandate="31/05/2004" type="milestone"/>
        <phase color="0099FF" currentdate="29/06/2005" name="Commercialization" plandate="08/12/2004" type="phase"/>
        <phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="24/02/2006" name="Project Closed" plandate="01/01/2010" type="phase"/>
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<version enddate=" 16/10/2008 " number=" 1" startdate=" 01/08/2003 ">
        <phase color="CCFFCC" currentdate="01/08/2003" name="Project Start" plandate="01/08/2003" type="phase"/>
        <phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="" type="phase"/>
        <phase color="0099FF" currentdate="15/06/2005" name="Commercialization" plandate="08/12/2004" type="phase"/>
        <phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="16/10/2008" name="Project Closed" plandate="16/10/2008" type="phase"/>
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<version enddate=" 31/12/2070 " number=" 1" startdate=" 01/01/2005 ">
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        <phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="01/07/2005" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="01/07/2005" type="phase"/>
        <phase color="0099FF" currentdate="31/03/2006" name="Commercialization" plandate="31/03/2006" type="phase"/>
        <phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="31/12/2070" name="Project Closed" plandate="31/12/2070" type="phase"/>
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</subproject>
</project>
</program>
</chart>
However this solution removes most of the whitespaces, I want exact output as flash file is expecting so..
Where ever I am calling the CF functions, there I am getting the whitespaces. like below cases.
startdate="#getProjectStartDate(sProjectIdList)#" -> output I am getting for this statement is -> " 12/09/2009 "
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Regards,
Manoz.

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