Inside Coldfusion MX

Chapter 19, "Introduction to XML and ColdFusion MX," talked about what XML is and how to create DTDs and schemas and introduced you to some of the basic functionality that ColdFusion supports for working with XML. In this chapter, we are going to expose you to an in-depth review of ColdFusion's XML functionality, explain exactly what goes on behind the scenes, and introduce you to a number of XML recommendations and supporting technologies such as the XML DOM, SAX, XPath, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, and more. The technologies covered in this chapter are very complex, and we will not be able to go as in-depth as we would like on topics such as XSLT. If you need more information, we recommend New Riders' Inside XML by Steve Holzner as a companion to this chapter.