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Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development
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Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

by Ben Forta
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
19h 15m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 41 Working with XML

IN THIS CHAPTER

XML Document Structure 511

Reading and Creating XML Documents 514

Using Special Characters in XML 521

XML Namespaces 523

Validating XML 526

More XML Resources 530

Extensible Markup Language (XML) files have become a common means of sharing and exchanging data between systems and applications, as well as between servers and browsers. In contrast to more traditional data exchange formats such as CSV and other flat-file formats, XML files describe data and organize it in a tag-based structure.

In ColdFusion, you may be interested in reading or writing XML files. These can take the form of flat text files, content generated in a Web page or Web service, data shared via an RSS feed (see Chapter 60, “Working ...

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