Mike Rankin

Recent Blog Comments By Mike Rankin

• XSLT And XMLTransform() Work Properly With XHTML In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM

  One thing to keep in mind is that CF8 still ships with the old Xalan processor from Apache. Unfortunately, that parser only supports xslt 1.0 and hasn't had any active development in years. What Adobe really needs to do is upgrade that library to the Saxon-B parser so that it supports XSLT 2.0, XQ... read more »

• OOP Getters() And Setters() - A New Programmer's Frustration

  Posted on Oct 14, 2008 at 2:00 PM

  I tend to go one step a little further and pass in the dsn for any data accessing object. That way, you can actually decouple an object from it's application if it's contained in one. It's great help for unit testing as well, since you can pass in a different data source if the object is called fr... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tags Are Significantly Faster Than XML Parsing

  Posted on Sep 4, 2008 at 1:24 PM

  oops. I was afraid something would go wrong there. The first xsl:text element should contain: 
(carriage return) and the second should contain: 	(tab)... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tags Are Significantly Faster Than XML Parsing

  Posted on Sep 4, 2008 at 1:21 PM

  @Ben, you're right that you need to start with an XML document to use xslt, but you don't necessarily need to end up with an XML document. For anyone that's a little curious, here's a very short stylesheet that can be applied to your example xml document above. While this has an extra tab at the e... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tags Are Significantly Faster Than XML Parsing

  Posted on Sep 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM

  I bet you would see a big improvement with the xml parsing method if you used xslt instead of doing all that looping in the custom tag.... read more »

• Ewwww - Watching Olympics On NBC.com Requires Microsoft Silverlight

  Posted on Aug 19, 2008 at 10:20 PM

  It didn't make a difference to me, since I'm already boycotting NBC, lol. For the record, I haven't seen a single Olympic event and I could not care less. I stopped watching NBC when they pulled their content off of iTunes.... read more »

• ColdFusion Functions Declared Inside CFScript Have Output

  Posted on Jul 10, 2008 at 6:28 PM

  This is a little off your topic, but I wish somebody could make a convincing argument for the benefits of the BGS (Big Giant Switch) approach that so many places use to build websites. I only brought it up because of the discussion you're having about using the OnRequest method of Application.cfc. ... read more »