Re: Is it necessary to parse XML in order to use it as a datasou

2002-09-04 Thread bryan.hogan

What version CF you using?

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From: "Blum, Jason (SAA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:  Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:35:00 -0400

Another newbie question:

I am just trying to figure out how this whole xml thing works - I keep
seeing examples of serializing in WDDX in which the sample code creates
a text file like:


 
  
 Blum
 Jason
  
  
 Costanza
 Goerge
  
 

and then serializes it... and then takes output and deserializes it back
into a structure.

At what point does this involve "parsing"  Isn't WDDX just recognizing
the beginning and end tags and forming a structure out of them dumbly
without being aware of what those tags mean?  That's all I'm after
because then I can loop through the structure and output it different
ways...

I guess I understood the whole point of XML to be to allow the client to
do that "outputting in different ways" but since I can't assume the
client is the latest version of IE, I figured I should do it for them by
hitting the server.

When I hear talk of installing a parser in ColdFusion, my head spins,
particularly because all I want to do is access this xml file like a
datasource and I know I could just write a custom tag to create a
structure out of the fields...

That said, I know I am "missing the point" so I figured who better to
ask then the cf community!

Thanks for your help!

-Jason

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Is it necessary to parse XML in order to use it as a datasou

2002-09-04 Thread Blum, Jason (SAA)

Another newbie question:

I am just trying to figure out how this whole xml thing works - I keep
seeing examples of serializing in WDDX in which the sample code creates
a text file like:


 
  
 Blum
 Jason
  
  
 Costanza
 Goerge
  
 

and then serializes it... and then takes output and deserializes it back
into a structure.

At what point does this involve "parsing"  Isn't WDDX just recognizing
the beginning and end tags and forming a structure out of them dumbly
without being aware of what those tags mean?  That's all I'm after
because then I can loop through the structure and output it different
ways...

I guess I understood the whole point of XML to be to allow the client to
do that "outputting in different ways" but since I can't assume the
client is the latest version of IE, I figured I should do it for them by
hitting the server.

When I hear talk of installing a parser in ColdFusion, my head spins,
particularly because all I want to do is access this xml file like a
datasource and I know I could just write a custom tag to create a
structure out of the fields...

That said, I know I am "missing the point" so I figured who better to
ask then the cf community!

Thanks for your help!

-Jason
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