Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML

Chapter 30
Using XML and WDDX

This chapter describes how to use ColdFusion to create, use, and manipulate XML documents. This chapter also presents Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX), an XML dialect for transmitting structured data, and describes how to use it to transfer data between applications and between CFML and JavaScript.

This chapter does not present XML concepts. Before you read this chapter you should become familiar with XML.

Contents

• About XML and ColdFusion
• The XML document object
• ColdFusion XML tag and functions
• Using an XML object
• Creating and saving an XML document object
• Modifying a ColdFusion XML object
• Transforming documents with XSLT
• Extracting data with XPath
• Example: using XML in a ColdFusion application
• Moving complex data across the web with WDDX
• Using WDDX

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