AnythingToXML in Mura CMS

Brian Rinaldi over at RemoteSynthesis.com contacted me today and told me something that got me pretty excited. Evidently Mura CMS uses my AnythingToXML as part of its core requirements. I had to download Mura and see for myself; it does!

From the stats on RIAforge I can see that a few people have downloaded AnythingToXML but I never know if it worked out for them. Its great to see something that you built to get you out of a jam taking on a life of its own and helping other people out.

I have yet to work on a project using Mura, but from what I hear its a great content management system and is developer friendly. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to work with it soon.

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AnythingToXML and XMLToAnything Updates

I spent some time updating AnythingToXML last month with a feature that allows for type hinting. I was trying to avoid this, but XMLToAnything really can not be made smart enough to know that something was once an array with only one element in it. Instead it will interpret it as a Coldfusion struct. Since XMLToAnything was written to reverse XML created with AnythingToXML I added the type hinting to the XML generation. If there is no type hinting it will still work as before and attempt a best-guess on what the XML should become.

Converting arrays, structures, queries, and components to XML in Coldfusion

Back in 2008 I needed a way to convert mixed CF data into XML documents. I had seen Ray Camden’s “toXML” script, but the functionality was too limited for me. I had to write my own from scratch that not only gave me full control over the creation of the XML document, but also allowed me to send in all of the Coldfusion datatypes, including cfc components. The results was AnythingToXML.

Example Code:

#myXML#

The results would look something like:

    Doll
    $10.00


    Game
    $16.00


    Puzzle
    $12.00

If you structure your data and then pass it to AnythingToXML along with the optional Root Node name and optional list of XML attributes. AnythingToXML will convert your data to a complex and well-formatted XML documents. It will accept any combination of Arrays, Queries, Structures, Objects, and Simple Types as input.

Future upgrades include adding schema and namespace support.

You can download AnythingToXML Here
More Examples of using AnythingToXML are Here