CFDOCUMENTITEM, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me

I’m working on generating PDF reports in ColdFusion 8 using the quick and easy cfdocument tag, and discovered that I cannot open and close tables using cfdocumentitem headers and footers. Here’s what I would have liked to do…

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<cfdocument attributecollection="#cfdocAttributes#">
	<cfdocumentitem type="header">
		<table border="5">
		<tr>
			<th>ID</th>
			<th>Name</th>
		</tr>
	</cfdocumentitem>
	<cfdocumentitem type="footer">
		</table>
	</cfdocumentitem>
	<cfoutput query="qPeople">
		<tr>
			<td>#ID#</td>
			<td>#Name#</td>
		</tr>
	</cfoutput>
</cfdocument>

Apparently there is a work-around for this if one is using Open BlueDragon. If anyone out there has a ColdFusion 8 solution that they’d care to share I would appreciate it…and apparently so would fellow CF developer Renu Deshpande.