Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

Chapter 45. Working with XML

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• XML Document Structure E181

• Reading and Creating XML Documents E184

• Using Special Characters in XML E191

• XML Namespaces E193

• Validating XML E196

• More XML Resources E204

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XML files (eXtensible Markup Language) have become a common way to share and exchange data between systems and applications, as well as between servers and browsers. In contrast to more traditional data exchange formats, like CSV and other flat-file formats, XML files describe and give structure to content by embedding it within tags.

In ColdFusion, we may be interested in reading or writing XML files. They can take the form of flat text files, content generated in a web page or web service, data shared via ...