Returning XML from CF for xmlHttpRequest

Greetings,
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but I can't seem to get
a .cfm page to return the necessary xml for use in my
xmlHttpRequest javascript code. I know the problem doesn't exist
within my javascript code......if I build the URL to connect to and
point it at an actual XML document, all is well.....I get a proper
XML DOM document back and I can do what I want. However, if I point
it at a .cfm page that is generating XML, it doesn't work.
I've tried a few different ways (<cfcontent> etc)of
trying to get CF to return the results of the .cfm page as XML, but
it's not working.
Suggestions?

Well, there you go. Turns out there's some slightly
contradictory info in the help for <cfxml>. In the main help
for the <cfxml> tag, there's no mention of the fact that you
should not use the standard <?xml version="1.0" etc> xml
processing directive when you're using that tag. It is, however,
mentioned on one of the associated help pages. So, now that I've
removed the directive, all is well.

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