XML File creation

[javman]

I am generating xml output from a cfquery.
<cfxml variable="Contact" casesensitive="yes">
<Contact>
<cfoutput query="GetName">
<phonenum phone="#Phone#">
<first>#FirstName#</first>
<last>#LastName#</last>
</phonenum>
</cfoutput>
</Contact>
</cfxml>
<cfoutput>#Contact#</cfoutput>
When I use cfdump on the variable contact everythings seems perfect.
However <cfoutput>#Contact#</cfoutput> returns
coldfusion.xml.XmlNodeList@1497dd2 and that is about all.
There should be a nice xml file with about 15 entries and there is nothing at
all?
Writing the file to the server returns exactly the same thing. What am I doing
wrong.

[BSterner]

"Contact" is an xml document variable, not a simple string. Use 'toString' to get the string representation.

<cfoutput>#toString(Contact)#</cfoutput>

[javman]

I appreciate the reply and suggestion but that did not make any difference at all. the output is the same as before.

[BSterner]

The output to what, the screen, the file or both? Your cffile output should
look like...

<cffile file="#GetDirectoryFromPath(ExpandPath("*.*"))#\de lete.xml"
output="#toString(Contact)#" action="write" />

Can you post the exact code you are using. I tried this several times and it
worked fine. What version of CF r u using?

[javman]

I kept working on this and you did have the answer. Many thanks.
I think the old failing results must have been cached by my browser.
I changed the code a little bit to
<cfset XMLContact=ToString(Contact)>
and reloaded the page, closed my browser and went online again and everything
worked fine.