Coldfusion and XML

Karen at Library Web Chic talks today about Coldfusion dealing with relative and absolute paths when transforming xml. I’ve found ColdFusion to be very picky about paths no matter what it’s doing. This includes scheduling tasks, uploading files, etc. Although that’s probably a good thing.

She has some ambitious projects coming up. I can sympathize because I’ve been working on the exact same things for our intranet. The great thing about ColdFusion is that it makes parsing and displaying RSS feeds so easy. There are quite a few powerful things you can do. Although we currently have the ability to push RSS content to our intranet pages we haven’t fully implemented it at the moment. I would like to allow individual staff in our offices to select RSS feeds for our intranet, perhaps as part of personalized pages, or as part of allowing users to push content to each other on shared/departmental pages. We haven’t quite worked it out yet, but it’s a project for the fall.

Karen also says she is working on adding Ajax to the mix. This is also something I’ve started looking at for our intranet, sparingly. I look forward to hearing what she’s able to accomplish and see the results when she’s finished.

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