I think you have a misconception about the uses of XML. XML is about the
data and you will always need some kind of mechanism to serve the XML
wrapped data. The general trend is away from proprietary XML tools and
databases to the more generic tool sets such as CF, ASP, JSP, etc. that are
database independent, so I don't see XML replacing any of those tools. I
do see those tools becoming more XML friendly perhaps, with parser
functions and XML markup tags as standard components.
Judith Campbell, CTO
Digital Positions, Inc.
At 04:55 PM 1/9/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've been reading up on XML because I want to learn more about what it is.
>It seems to me that it will probably replace cold fusion when it gets up
>to speed at where it wants to be. What is your opinion about this. Here
>are some points I found in my research that led me to believe this. These
>are things that cf seems to do now:
>
> * Applications that require a Web client to mediate between two or
> more heterogeneous databases.
> * Applications that attempt to distribute a significant portion of the
> processing load from a Web server to a Web client.
> * Applications that require a Web client to present different views of
> the same data to different users.
> * Applications in which intelligent Web agents attempt to tailor
> information discovery to the needs of individual users.
>Sal
>
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