Paul McCombie

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• Ask Ben: Parsing Very Large XML Documents In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 6:46 AM

  Strewth; my spelling's bad.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Parsing Very Large XML Documents In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 6:14 AM

  re Adam: I'm guessing that Coldfusion's string handling is particularly slow when it comes to large streams such as the one being discussed. Using the Java string handling expidites the process dramatically. Or I could be talking nonsense :(... read more »

• ColdFusion Optimizing Case Study: Writing Orders To A CSV File

  Posted on Mar 12, 2008 at 11:27 AM

  Yeh, that's what I was thinking. The page was producing an Excel worksheet using MS' Open XML nonsense, which allows you to format columns/rows/cells til your hearts' content. But the bl**dy client's decided (after it's finished) that they want it in CSV.... read more »

• ColdFusion Optimizing Case Study: Writing Orders To A CSV File

  Posted on Mar 12, 2008 at 11:10 AM

  Hi there, I've used a similar (**coughs** identical) method to create a csv file, but have ran afoul of Excel's 'helpful' cell formatting - I have columns from a dataset in the form of number-hyphen-number, eg. 12-1. When opening the CSV in Excel, it decides to format this to 12-Jan. The CSV file... read more »