Alan,
Your right on the money, that is exactly what WDDX is. But I have not
heard of Allaire's "Official" stance on WDDX or XML in the future. Maybe
its just because I'm on the outside looking in. But at least from this
article, and because WDDX is the foundation of Spectra I believe they are
sticking with it. In the article I think they are a little screwy, they
seem to use the acronyms XML and WDDX interchangeably.
Like in this statement:
"Allaire has gone further by adding development-processing functionality in
the form of a XML parser and processor. So, in addition to generating XML,
ColdFusion developers can consume XML, parse it, access it, use it in their
applications, and transform it into another form of XML."
http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?id=16524&Method=Full [thanks
Stephen]
Please tell what they mean by "XML parser and processor"? What tag is that?
Notice the key word of "gone". That is past tense and I know nothing about
an integrated _XML_ parser or processor. It sounds like marketing talking
out of there arse. They seem to be referring to cf_wddx as their parser and
processor, which is specific to the WDDX format only. It does not parse
generic XML.
Wddx.org is not to my knowledge an Allaire sponsored site. That maybe the
reason for the lack of updates. But to some credit to Allaire, I have seen
mention of WDDX in XML books (although not at great length). WDDX has seen
its window when it first was released (since they had a documented SDK), but
I believe that since then it has been passed over by the wide implantation
of XML parsers. I do believe it is dying. I would recommend the use of raw
XML over WDDX for any future enterprise applications. Don't get me wrong
though, WDDX has been a huge asset to ColdFusion, huge! But WDDX will never
gain wide support in other environments. What you will see happen is
"standardized" formats of XML (like WDDX) but with a more specific
intention. For example, a specific definition on how a stock quote is
described (Nastaq), business processes (BizTalk), and job postings (Human
Resources Markup Language [http://www.hrml.com/]).
In past discussions we have compared XML to Java and C++ (among others).
This view is wrong, XML is much bigger. XML is a common extension for any
language, its plain text! and that is the key to its wide acceptance and
success. Hell, we've even gotten nutty at SiteObjects and began talking to
each other in XML...
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<sig>
<msg>Happy Coding!</msg>
<name>Brett Suwyn</name>
<email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
<comment>Ok Im getting a little weird now</comment>
</sig>
| -----Original Message-----
| From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:45 PM
| To: Fusebox
| Subject: RE: XML / XSL editor / CFX / COM object
|
|
| Okay, I'm gonna dive in again.
|
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks to me like WDDX is really just an
| agreed-upon schema for storing complex datatypes. Perhaps Allaire is just
| planning on integrating more generalized XML stuff instead of the specific
| WDDX schema. That'd be my 5-cent guest.
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