I'll plead guilty to having tortured more than my share of bytes into
completely unnatural configurations.
In the BX years (Before XML), if you had to share data with your business
partners you might have represented the data in comma-delimited text files.
If the data was too complex to fit one record to a line, you might have
created a proprietary design to hold the information.
Today you'd probably consider XML. Its consistency makes it possible to
create and parse text-based data files with standardized programming tools.
When deciding how to transfer your data to XML you'd have a choice of
programming approaches. Some would be hard, others easier, but until now none
would have been native ColdFusion.
That's changed with the release of ColdFusion MX. This is the secon... (more)
There once was a mild-mannered XML packet with greater ambitions. One day
I'll be presentable, it thought! I'll dress up as HTML - and as WML, and
maybe, just maybe, I can turn into WDDX!
Transformation looked scary, though, with lots of downloads, and
installation, and really complicated syntax. But then along came ColdFusion
MX, and the XML packet found that transformation wasn't such a... (more)
XML- it's here, and you have to deal with it. Whether you need to generate
XML files to share data with your business partners, extract content from XML
files, or transform XML into some other format...
...the ability to deal with XML has become a common requirement for
ColdFusion developers in the past couple of years.
Prior to the release of ColdFusion MX, the tag gave develop... (more)
When working out data-sharing systems with an organization's business
partners, you as a developer may be asked to send and receive data in a more
conventional XML format. This may be because those partners prefer to speak
more generic forms of the XML language. If so, there are a number of tools
available to developers in this situation.
If you're using ColdFusion 4.5, for example, you c... (more)
"It doesn't matter to me that you use my methodology," said the Fusebox
expert sitting across from me at lunch. "What matters is that you have a
methodology." And I thought back to my early experiences with ColdFusion...
I developed my first ColdFusion application by the seat of my pants. I opened
the manual, looked through the sample applications, and got started. On
looking back, I was ... (more)