I work in the financial industry as a developer and not that the financial industry has any greater implementation of XML than any other, but web applications that utilize back office processing for loan applications, or new account opening processes, or retail internet banking applications all to some extent make calls to a host. Many times it’s a DB2 database, and many times some other process that returns account information or validation information in xml format.
One of the fun things that I found working in ColdFusion is the many ways you can manipulate xml data. I’m certain this type of process isn’t exclusive to ColdFusion, but I wanted to put it out there anyway. Many developers have a little apprehension about working with new technologies at first, or trying something that hasn’t been already tried and true and of course documented heavily. And frankly it’s hard to find the extra time with a heavy work load and deadlines to meet to go off experimenting But I managed to put aside some time to look at parsing XML into an object that developers are all familiar with, the Query object. As a developer, writing SQL is common place, so I...
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