xmlParse() claiming "document root missin"

[mate of the state]

In another thread previously I tried to address this issue. Somebody claimed
that removing the term PUBLIC from my internal DOCTYPE declaration solved the
issue, but it is not working for me still. In case it would help in outside
eyes debugging this, I've included all code that executes prior to the point of
failure. First, of course, we have Application.cfm. If this finds the XML
config file, it instantiates the master CFC and calls that CFCs init method,
which should then attempt to parse the config file.



<CFapplication
name="lindholm-front"
sessionmanagement="yes"
sessiontimeout="#createTimeSpan(0,1,0,0)#"

>

<!--- // UDFs (beefy!) //
<CFinclude template="includes/udf.cfm"> --->

<!--- // INIT THE SYSTEM! // --->

<CFscript>

// establish path to config file
configPath = expandPath('config.xml');

if (fileExists(configPath)) {

// instantiate the app
lindholm = createObject('component','cfc.lindholm');
lindholm.init(configPath);

} else {

// oops!
writeOutput('Critical error: The XML configuration file is missing!');
}

</CFscript>

<!--- // INCLUDE SITE-WIDE HEADER (top piece of bread in our site sandwich) //
--->
<CFinclude template="templates/header.cfm">

...

<!--- // LINDHOLM.CFC // --->

<CFcomponent hint="Root CFC">

<!--- // PROPERTIES // --->



<!--- // METHODS // --->


<!--- loadXML() --->
<CFfunction
name="loadXML"
returntype="void"
hint="Simplifies first two requisite steps for processing XML data."

>

<CFargument name="configPath" type="string" required="yes" />
<CFargument name="encoding" type="string" required="no" default="utf-8" />

<CFfile action="read" file="#arguments.configPath#" variable="config"
charset="utf-8" />
<CFset config = xmlParse(arguments.configPath) />
<CFreturn config />

</CFfunction>


<!--- init() --->
<CFfunction name="init" returntype="void">

<CFargument name="configPath" type="string" required="yes" />

<!--- HTTP headers --->
<CFheader name="Content-Type" value="text/html; utf-8" />

<CFscript>

// load the config file
this.configXML = this.loadXML(arguments.configPath);

</CFscript>

</CFfunction>

</CFcomponent>

[mate of the state]

Ugh... I was trying to parse the path to the file, not the variable returned by <CFfile />...

D'oh. ;)

CARRY ON