User Guide

920 Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions

<name>Standard paint thinner</name>

</item>

</items>

</order>

The custorder.dtd file is as follows:

<!ELEMENT order (customer, items)>

<!ATTLIST order

id CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT customer EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST customer

firstname CDATA #REQUIRED

lastname CDATA #REQUIRED

accountNum CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT items (item+)>

<!ELEMENT item (name, quantity, unitprice)>

<!ATTLIST item

id CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT quantity (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT unitprice (#PCDATA)>

The CFML file is as follows. It uses a filename for the XML file and a URL for the DTD. Note

that the XML and URL paths must be absolute.

<cfset

myDoc=XMLParse("C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\examples\custorder.xml",

false, "http://localhost:8500/examples/custorder.dtd")>

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