Of course, if you are using Rails as a guide, you should check out Joe¹s comments on the subject :->
http://www.firemoss.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8F2D5D6A-3048-55C9-4 315FAAD54617516 Best Wishes, Peter On 3/24/07 1:06 PM, "Thomas Messier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building an MVC framework and I'm making sure XML is NOT a part of it. I > don't think there's anything wrong with using XML or not, I think you can > build something well with or without it, it's down to preference. RoR doesn't > use it and that's one of the reasons I love it. If I put in static > configuration files, I'd probably use JSON before I used XML. > > -TM > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Todd Cullen > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Reactor for CF] XML Configuration Files > > Quick Question (or maybe not that quick): Why do most of the ColdFusion > frameworks around use XML configuration files rather than providing methods to > build the required data structure in ColdFusion? Something in line with what > RoR does. > > Have programmers, more experienced that I, found XML configs are more flexible > in the long run? Or perhaps they're just easier to setup at the beginning? > > I'm building an MVC framework and I've been trying to avoid the "XML situps" > at all cost. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. > > Sorry for the off topic post but most of the active contributors on this > listserv are very insightful. Thanks in advance. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List [email protected] Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
