You can get the DFA from Simon Horwith (http://www.horwith.com).  He has 
made some updates too I believe.

Nic

Dave Watts wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to get a hold of the DRK3 (developers 
>> resource kit vol 3) at this point in time? I'm interested in 
>> the DFA API, and am wondering if this is available anymore. 
>> (I'm researching translation of csv files into XML.) As seen 
>> on Adobe's site at:
>> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/mchambers_newreleases.html
>>
>> DFA: Data File Access (DFA) is a ColdFusion MX component and 
>> a set of custom tags that lets you interact with an XML- or 
>> comma-delimited file as if it were a database. Storing data 
>> in flat files is always tempting because it is so convenient, 
>> but often gets unwieldy and complex as your record sets grow 
>> and your requirements change. DFA puts a simple, familiar tag 
>> interface on top of XML or a comma-delimited file, letting 
>> you retrieve data using Xpath or SQL.
>>     
>
> I doubt these are available at all any more.
>
> But if you have CSV files, you can easily convert them into query objects
> using CFHTTP - your CSV file has to be web-accessible - then do whatever you
> want with them. Honestly, it can't get much easier, although it strikes me
> as something that might not perform so well in a high volume environment.
>
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