You could open the file in any decent text editor. They often have an option to do this exact thing. I've never used Coldfusion, so I'm surprised if it doesn't have this kind of thing, because ...

Let's say we need a JavaScript function that will take a string of tagged text (that is, it contains Extensible Markup Language (XML) markup) and return only the tags (and not the text that the tags ...

Java Server Pages and XML represent natural partners for building Web applications that use heterogeneous data sources. XML’s DOM API provides a universal way to represent these diverse data sources.