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Recent Blog Comments By David Lauridsen

• Ask Ben: Optimizing Tables For Printing

  Posted on Jul 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM

  @Mallik (or Ben), Did you ever get/figure out an answer to this question of selective display of header/footer? For a job at work, using CF 8.01 (all patches applied, as far as I know,) we are hoping that there is a way to manipulate the "cfdocumentitem" tag logic such as t... read more »

• My First Look At The XML ENTITY Tag In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Apr 4, 2012 at 12:25 PM

  Ben (or Eric), et al... I have another XML "entity declaration" question for you all: Since any entity or notation declarations inside the DOCTYPE definition at the top of an XML file do not appear to be accessible once that file is parsed as an XML object in CF, what is the... read more »

• XPath Support Expanded In ColdFusion 8

  Posted on Nov 30, 2011 at 5:11 PM

  Does anyone happen to know what specific version of xPath ColdFusion 8.0.1 uses? (Trying to pin down which xPath features CF 8 supports...) Thanks.... read more »

• Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java

  Posted on Oct 27, 2011 at 8:44 AM

  Geeks Are Sexy has a great video on Daylight Saving time and the great debate as to how useful it really is. Very well done. http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/10/26/daylight-savi... read more »

• Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java

  Posted on Sep 23, 2011 at 9:26 AM

  I second Dan on storing dates and times as UTC in the DB. In my case if we have to convert to "local" time, it is always back to EST/EDT, so its not too crazy...yet. The whole "Daylight Saving Time" thing is decidedly a hassle. Paul's timezone.cfc is great, but I have... read more »

• My First Look At The XML ENTITY Tag In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Sep 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM

  @Eric: Thanks. I am going ahead with the plan of replacing ampersands that are not already "&" when the file is initially read with a unique string marker (like "{**!**}" or whatever,) before the file contents are parsed as XML. XMLParse will then NOT replace the ori... read more »

• My First Look At The XML ENTITY Tag In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Sep 2, 2011 at 9:27 AM

  Ben - I have noticed something "interesting" about CF when dealing with entities in XML. Recently, I have had to do to fairly intensive processing of several XML files that involved replacing values, changing entire tags, etc. Some of these files contained custom entities as you n... read more »

• ColdFusion XML Object Will Auto-Convert To String Often, But Not Always

  Posted on Aug 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM

  Ben, have you ever seen or encountered a case where using ToString() and CFFILE to change XML from an XML object to a string (and then write to a file) mangles the results? Specifically, I've got a case where I am doing a great deal of chopping up a parsed XML file into separate strings t... read more »

• Nylon Technology Presentation: Introduction To XPath And XmlSearch() In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM

  SOL apparently means "So Overly Lucky". Just saw the: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2048-Finding-The-XPath-Of-A-Given-XML-Node-In-A-Col... read more »

• Nylon Technology Presentation: Introduction To XPath And XmlSearch() In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 10, 2011 at 11:20 AM

  Apologies, Ben. It looks like Brian asked essentially the very same question (10/28/2010) as mine, and I missed it in the comments. Let me know if anything has changed since your answer, otherwise it seems I am SOL on easily getting the node tree path of a searched for element.... read more »

• Nylon Technology Presentation: Introduction To XPath And XmlSearch() In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 10, 2011 at 11:04 AM

  Ben, Is there any way to get XMLSearch() to return the full node tree that the searched item was found under, when using the "//WHATEVER" search method? I am attempting to automate the conversion of some old very inconsistent SGML into XML, and am picking and choosing which... read more »