Xml XSLT To PDF How do I?

I took a stab at creating a framework to generate reports through XML and XSLT.
Now the problem I have is being able to allow the user who generated the report to print it in a PDF. I tried saving the generated html with a <cfsavecontent variable="xjy" > and output the info with a cfoutput
<cfdocument format="pdf" marginright="0" saveasname="xxx.pdf">
#XmlTransform(xmlObj,xslObj)#
</cfdocument>.
This is not working. I need help outputing this info into a pdf.

What did this actually end up generating?
DW

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