Recent Web Log Entries By Ben Nadel
XStandard - Unable To Process License File
Posted: September 19, 2008 at 5:42 PM by Ben Nadel
As you may know, I use XStandard as my WYSIWYG editor of choice. In my eyes, it just puts the other editors to shame. It has its down sides, but none that make it less that attractive. Anyway, I've been using it happily for a few years now and then out of no where, I started getting this error: Unable to process license file. Please contact your ... read more »
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XStandard v2.0 Available: The Best WYSIWYG Editor Just Keeps Getting Better
Posted: July 5, 2007 at 4:04 PM by Ben Nadel
The XStandard development team just let me know that XStandard v2.0 is now a publicly available product. For those of you who don't know what XStandard is, it's the leading WYSIWYG XHTML editor around. Last year, I wrote a ColdFusion version of their web services . It looks like I am going to have to update that library to cover all the new coo... read more »
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Stripping XML Name Spaces And Node Prefixes From ColdFusion XML Data (To Simplify XPath)
Posted: January 28, 2007 at 1:31 PM by Ben Nadel
I want to start this off saying that I don't know all that much about XML standards. All I know is that sometimes they get in my way. In particular, XML name spaces and tag prefixes can make searching ColdFusion XML objects using XPath very difficult (at least for the layman like me). For instance, take a look at this chunk of XML SOAP request tha... read more »
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Creating More ColdFusion Solutions For XStandard Web Services
Posted: September 8, 2006 at 6:29 PM by Ben Nadel
I had a little time to kick around today for research & development so I thought I would take another look at the XStandard WYSIWYG editor. There are some very cool things that I never used before including the ability to lock down parts of the document using CSS only and the ability to include templates during WYSIWYG mode (but not output the... read more »
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XStandard Now Available For Safari On Mac OS X!
Posted: August 30, 2006 at 6:09 PM by Ben Nadel
XStandard.com just released a beta for the XStandard WYSIWYG editor for Safari on Mac OS X. Up until now, myself (and all my new clients) have been using the XStandard editor on Windows machines. This is not a problem as the world is on Windows machines (oh settle down!), but this new release just means that practically no one is limited! How fr... read more »
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XStandard Web Services And Random URL Parameters
Posted: July 26, 2006 at 1:16 PM by Ben Nadel
As I posted earlier, I was having some funkiness with XStandard caching data and showing up duplicates of stuff. I had originally thought that since my debugging (my custom XStandard configuration) was turned on, it was some how hamstringing XStandard on LARGE SOAP responses. I found out that this is not the case; after a temporary fix, the weir... read more »
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XStandard XHtml Code Templates
Posted: July 26, 2006 at 8:03 AM by Ben Nadel
I am just testing out XStandard's ability to add xhtml code templates. For instance, I have a the template file _image_border.cfm that has the code: <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="imageborder"> <tr> <td width="50%" rowspan="3"> <br /> </td> <td class="nw"> &n... read more »
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Responsed SOAP Message Doesn't Contain XStandard Namespace
Posted: July 24, 2006 at 4:56 PM by Ben Nadel
I was trying to add some new directory snippets (XHtml code templates that can be inserted into the generated content) when I kept getting the error: responsed SOAP message doesn't contain xstandard namespace It was driving me crazy because upon accessing the page directly, it worked fine and looked great. After about 45 minutes, I realized the ... read more »
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XStandard And Debugging ColdFusion Web Services
Posted: July 22, 2006 at 10:04 AM by Ben Nadel
The other day, I blogged about XStandard and weird caching issues . I think that I was wrong in my diagnosis. During all of this I had debugging turned on in my XStandard ColdFusion web services. In my debugging, it writes the SOAP request and response headers to htm files in a special debug folder. It basically does a CFDump on the XML object cr... read more »
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WooHoo! XStandard Pro On bennadel.com
Posted: July 21, 2006 at 2:26 PM by Ben Nadel
I finally got around to implementing XStandard PRO on my own website. Freakin' Sweet. Using my ColdFusion web services solution, I was able to dynamiclly link other blog entries (like the link earlier in this sentance) and I was able to upload this image via XStandard and have it integrate directly with my CMS. I don't know about you, but X... read more »
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XStandard And Browser Caching
Posted: July 21, 2006 at 9:34 AM by Ben Nadel
I am in the middle of implementing XStandard PRO for my site, bennadel.com . Believe it or not, I have been so busy with client that I haven't had the time to implement it for myself :( There is one issue that I have come across with what seems to be browser caching. It seems that even when I update my configuration files and refresh my pages, ... read more »
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XStandard Web Services And ColdFusion Security
Posted: July 21, 2006 at 8:36 AM by Ben Nadel
I was having a bit of trouble with security at one point while implementing the ColdFusion web services of XStandard . XStandard calls ColdFusion (.cfm) pages for my version of the web services. Below are some examples of the web service URLs: <!--- Attachment library. ---> <param name="AttachmentLibraryURL" value="#strXSDirec... read more »
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The '..' Characters Are Not Allowed In The Path Parameter For The MapPath Method
Posted: July 20, 2006 at 3:49 PM by Ben Nadel
I am covering for someone on vacation was given the task of configuring XStandard on a client site. The web services were not working and when accessed directly, the error they throw is: The '..' characters are not allowed in the Path parameter for the MapPath method The client is running off of the ASP version of the web services, not my ColdF... read more »
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Getting ColdFusion And XStandard Kickin' Into High Gear
Posted: June 28, 2006 at 6:10 PM by Ben Nadel
Dan G. Switzer, II has taken my ColdFusion web services solutions and enhanced it by implementing the spell checker . He is using the Jazzy Spell Checker Java API. Awesome work Dan! When I get some free time I am going integrate his code into my source. There are several other minor updates from his code that I will be integrating including som... read more »
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Updates To the ColdFusion XStandard Web Servicescoldfusion browser wysiwyg xhtml
Posted: June 22, 2006 at 1:33 PM by Ben Nadel
Dan G. Switzer, II pointed out some issues with my ColdFusion web service solution for the XStandard WYSIWYG editor. I am now completely clearing out all white space before the XML SOAP response get's written and I am also setting an XML content type for the response stream. Update RAR: xstandard_coldfusion_2006_06_22.rar ... read more »
