Ben Nadel • 4/9/2026

Using jSoup To Translate User-Generated Content Into CFMailML Custom Tags

This article explores a technique to integrate user-generated content (UGC) into CFMailML, a ColdFusion-based domain-specific language for email templates. The author uses jSoup to parse UGC HTML, walk the DOM tree, and dynamically invoke CFMailML custom tags to apply email-specific styling and formatting. The goal is to overcome the limitation of raw HTML interpolation in email templates, ensuring cross-client compatibility and proper rendering. The article includes code examples and explains the challenges of email client support, particularly Outlook Desktop.

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#coldfusion #Dsl #Email Templates