Trouble writing CFML to a file

Question

I am trying to create a CFC that will write a file with CFML in it using code like the following example...
    <cffile action="write" file="C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\T\test.cfm" output="<cfmenu name=""test"">">
but ColdFusion keeps trying to read what is in the output="". Is there any way to make it so that ColdFusion doesn't try to read the output text as CFML?

Answer 1

Yep.
Do it the way I showed you in that other thread.  Basically the way to get the CF compiler to not compile CFML instructions which are actually part of a string, rather than code, is to "escape" the tags.
Relevant snippet from other thread:
    <cfsavecontent variable="sMenus">
        <cfset sCfO = "<" & "cf">
        <cfset sCfC = "</" & "cf">
        <cfoutput>
            #sCfO#menu    type="horizontal">
                <cfquery name="qMenus" dbType="query">
                    [snip]
                </cfquery>
                <cfloop query="qMenus">
                    #sCfO#menuitem display="#label#" href="#CGI.script_name#?id=#id#" name="sub_#parentId#_#id#">
                        #getSubmenus(menuData=qMenuData, parentId=id)#
                    #sCfC#menuitem>
                </cfloop>
            #sCfC#menu>
Where sCfO and sCfC ("CF open" and "CF close") are variables holding "<cf" and "</cf" respectively.  So when creating your string, you have "#sCfO#menu" which will contain "<cfmenu".
Make sense?
Adam