Maybe the best way to get your head around how nifty XML or WDDX is would be to do a small, quick and dirty little app where you need to get a set of data from your server to a business partners server. All without having to have both parties have identicle db designs or schema mirrored on both servers.
Data movement can be greatly simplified .... stylesheet and layout type usage - I havent messed with. HTH, Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "swank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 2:08 AM Subject: How XML benefits ColdFusion developers > Hi, > > I've been searching high and low to find a good explanation of this with > no luck... > > What benefit does XML give over the standard non-CF database driven site? > > I am new to XML, but as I understand it XML's greatness is that it gives > greater meaning to data, removing the visual presentation mark-up of > html making the data more portable. > > In many ways, this seem to be doing the same thing that my "old" CF apps > were doing, stuffing data into mySQL... > > In fact, many of the explanations of XML i've read, attempt to explain > XML by comparing to the structure of a database... Each row of a > database is made up of fields which describe the the data that they > contain....just like XML... > > So, my question is how does XML relate to the database? ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
