How can I upload the XML file to the website using ColdFusion and read from it?

thk q for the help....i tested it out and it seems ok...but i haven't compiled with the rest of my codes yet...n hopefully there won't be any problem

The only thing I would add to the previous repy, is that if you choose to just display the raw XML, I would strongly suggest that you escape it so that you don't expose yourself XSS.

The htmleditformat() function makes that very easy.

Creating a file upload form can be done with CFINPUT TYPE="FILE".

Processing the uploaded file (saving it into disk) is handled with CFFILE ACTION="UPLOAD".

XML is just text, so if you want to show the XML, it's just a matter of reading the uploaded file and displaying it as text.

You can even create an XML document object of it, and use structure and array functions to access it. Or use CFDUMP to allow the user inspect the structure in more user friendly way, as in the code example below:

<cfif NOT isdefined("submit")>
    <cfform name="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <cfinput type="file" name="myfile">
    <cfinput type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload">
    <cfinput type="hidden" name="requestTimeout" value="240">
    </cfform>
<cfelse>
    <cffile action="upload" filefield="myfile" destination="#expandpath('./')#" nameconflict="overwrite" accept="text/xml,application/xml">
    <cfset myXMLDocument=XmlParse("#expandpath('./')##CFFILE.serverfile#")>
    <cfdump var="#myXMLDOcument#">
</cfif>

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