Archive: May 2006

5 posts

XML external entities bug in CF

by kai on 17/05/2006

I've experienced a strange behaviour in CF when dealing with external XML entities. What I wanted to do was basically to break down an XML document into several smaller chunks of XML. Shouldn't be too difficult, hmmm? I had two xml files, both located in the same folder: a.xml: &config; b.xml: abc Following the…

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XML parsing error

by kai on 16/05/2006

Ever ended up with the following error? "An error occured while Parsing an XML document. The processing instruction target matching "" is not allowed." It happened to me today when I was trying to parse a highly complex chunk of XML with XMLParse(). Eventually I found out that it came down to basically a SAXParseException and it was reasonably easy to solve by changing my code…

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Mystic beta 3 and Multiserver installations

by kai on 14/05/2006

Today I was trying to set up Mystic beta 3 for my multiserver configuration on my work machine. I run CF 7, Flex 1.5 and some more instances containing Java apps on JRun 4 (Windows box, default installation on C drive). When I was stepping through the installation wizard of Mystic all was fine up to the point when I had to decide for standalone or multiserver. I know that standalone works fine,…

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CFLOGIN madness

by kai on 12/05/2006

Something really interesting - well, at least if you try to fix it and it doesn't work :)... I've tried to use GetAuthUser() within a new ModelGlue application I'm just writing. The idea was to put the username of the person currently logged in into the event by using arguments.event.setValue within a controller method. For whatever reason it stayed blank and contained the correct user not before…

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Back to BIB

by kai on 12/05/2006

It was rather quiet during the last 1.5 months. Well, sorry for that, some things regarding life outside internet and web caught my attention :-) Basically I was really busy continuing our settlement process in New Zealand, got a mortgage, bought a house and got some visa conditions removed. But now, I'm pretty much ready to continue :)