You could use XML for that sort of purpose. But within your own site you might as well use a database. The real advantage of XML is when you use the same XML name space (pretty much just naming conventions) as other sites, then you can share the data with ease.
If you want to use XML within your own site to push it through different templates, I would just use ASP instead of CF. Then you can just make XSL files that will do the same thing, and it is really designed for that. Otherwise, why use XML? >>> "Sandy Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/01/02 03:36PM >>> I'm using it to test out ideas of how to transfer data from CF as a backend server to multiple front end servers. (Flash, Fancy HTML, Section 508 compliant HTML) using XML, all the front ends need to do is request the data and parse what it is given for display. CF simply responds to the request (in XML) and returns the data in XML. Works great if a little slowly. -----Original Message----- From: swank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 9:40 AM To: CF-Talk 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? thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction. ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
