Chapter 41 Working with XML
IN THIS CHAPTER
Reading and Creating XML Documents 514
Using Special Characters in XML 521
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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