Jim Collins

Putting support for XML processing in ColdFusion 6.0 was regarded as a major feature upgrade. With the switch to Java, ColdFusion could leverage the existing Java functions in Jakarta Commons and add support for things like Web Services (Axis). However, binding itself to Java also bound ColdFusion to the limitations of the Java feature set. When MX was released, the Xerxes XML parser was state-of-the-art. Java XML processing has advanced significantly since then. This article will discuss these new developments and show how you, the developer, can leverage them from ColdFusion. Some experience with creating and using Java objects with ColdFusion will help but isn't required. Conventional CFXML Let's look at a trivial example of using ColdFusion XML functions to parse an ... (more)