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Application Development
Because application development technologies frequently change, this is the area in Dreamweaver that you would expect most of the additions. In Dreamweaver 8, Macromedia did not disappoint, expanding on its already feature-rich application development framework by enhancing support for ColdFusion MX 7, adding code hinting for PHP 5, and most importantly, integrating robust and intuitive functionality for authoring XML data visually.
Visual Authoring with XML Data
One of the most exciting additions to Dreamweaver 8 is its support for visual authoring of XML pages and creating XSL transformations (XLST) quickly and intuitively. Beginning with the New Document dialog, shown in Figure 1.19, Macromedia added drag-and-drop support from the Bindings panel for integrating XML data into web pages, enhanced support for XML and XSLT in Code view, and improved rendering for XSLT and XPath.
Figure 1.19. The Basic Page category in the New Document dialog includes skeleton files for XSLT and XML pages.
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Figure 1.20. The Bindings panel displays all the nodes contained in the XML file.
Figure 1.21. Nodes from the XML file are dragged and dropped onto the XSL page.
Figure 1.22 shows, the XSL transformation occurs, a temporary HTML file is created, and the data contained within the XML file is displayed, formatted, in the browser.
Figure 1.22. The data contained in the XML file is displayed a229 in the browser.
Figure 1.23. The Repeat Region object allows a parent node to constantly repeat down the page.
ColdFusion MX 7 Support
Users familiar with the ColdFusion application framework will be pleasantly surprised by the number of additions and enhancements made to coincide with ColdFusion MX 7. Specifically, these additions and enhancements are outlined here:
- Updated existing features to coincide with the ColdFusion MX 7 API. These features include updating the tag libraries, code hints, code coloring, and validating.
- In the Components panel, only your application CFCs now display instead of all the CFCs on the server.
- The capability of inserting objects and PIs for CFForm items have been added.
- CFC Recordsets have been added so that CFC Queries can be reused.
- A user authentication wizard to password protect a directory on your site has been included.
- The ability to create database connections directly from the Database panel has been added. Traditional methods forced the developer to use the CFIDE server.
