One point that should be made is that CFML is not XML, no matter how it's written. CFELSE, CFSET and CFRETURN are three examples of tags that simply cannot be valid XML. If you use a subset of CFML, you could make for a valid XML document, but you'd be crippled.
This is one interesting feature of recent versions of JSP. JSP documents are valid XML, so you can do some neat things with XSLT and such to actually manipulate the code of you app, not just the data it manages. cheers, barneyb On 7/28/05, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I write code that way because it is required when writing XML and valid > XHTML. It's simpler for my poor old brain to remember to always do it > that way than to do it one way in most tag based languages and another > in ColdFusion. > > It also makes code more readable for me because it is a more declarative > style. > > If I see this: > > <cfhttp url="blah"> > > There may or may not be a </cfhttp> somewhere further down the page, > whereas if I see this: > > <cfhttp url="blah" /> > > I know there isn't one. > > Spike > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 50 invites. ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). CFCDev is supported by New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
