Spry XML question

can spry read in XML as a string? I have an xml page
generated by a coldfusion query (.cfm) The page parses correctly as
an XML file, but when spry reads it in, it does not read it as XML.
I can save the .cfm results (view source) as an XML file and it
views perfectly through spry. Wondering if there is a way to do
this with the original cfm file. NOTE: the example linked
here
does not work

I use CF to generate XML all the time.
You have to make sure you set the content-type to XML and
make sure to remove whitespace:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/utils/query2xml.html
But to answer your questions: yes, Spry can read XML strings:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/XMLStringSample.html
Hope this helps.
Don

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