Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Development Manual page 794

DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Requesting and Presenting Information
Prefix URL
xf http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms
ev http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events
cf
XML structure
For each CFML tag, ColdFusion converts attributes and element values to XML in the XForms
in individual control elements, such as the XForms
ColdFusion generates XForms XML in the following format. The numbers on each line indicate the level of nesting of
the tags.
1 form tag
2 XForms model element
3 XForms instance element
4 cf:data element
3 XForms submission element
3 XForms bind element
3 XForms bind element
3 .
3 .
3 .
2 (end of model element)
2 XForms or ColdFusion extension control element
2 XForms or ColdFusion extension control element
.
.
.
1 (end of form)
Data model
The XForms data model specifies the data that the form submits. It includes information on each displayed control
that can submit data, including initial values and validation information. It does not contain information about
or
cfformgroup cfformitem
• One element
xf:instance
• One
element
xf:submission
• One
element for each form control that can submit data
xf:bind
xf:instance element
The XForms element contains information about the form data controls. Any control that can submit
xf:instance
data has a corresponding instance element. If the control has an initial value, the instance element contains that value.
The element contains a single
xf:instance
most tag types,
cfinput cfselect
CFML tag's attribute. For applet and Flash format
name
parameter of the tree or grid's Java applet object. Only
cf_param_name
do not have instance data, because they cannot submit data.
andbutton
Used for
XForms model (including initial field values) and XForms elements that
correspond to cfform tags.
System events. Used for the
All ColdFusion extensions, including passthrough of attributes that do not
correspond to XForms elements or attributes.
xf:input
tags. The data model consists of the following elements and their children:
element that contains an element for each data control:
cf:data
, ,
cfslider cftextarea
cfgrid
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cfinput type="reset".
, , or
xf:secret xf:group
, and . Each element name is the corresponding
cftree
and tags, the element name is the value of the
cftree
tags of types
cfinput
element, or
xf:model
elements.
,
cfgrid
, ,
submit image reset,
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