Note: It might be valuable to first work through the set of materials on the Renovation Galleries (link at bottom of this page). This shows much of what I went through on the presentation. Working through it can give a good overview to the parts of Spry.
Most of the other items on this page were prepared for the April presentation (which didn't occur) and some relate to creating the XML for Spry.
As these pages use XML as their input, the first 2 sets a couple of ways ColdFusion can be used to produce XML: either on the fly, or to be saved as an XML document.
The AJAX page is a very basic demonstration of how most systems such as SPRY make "calls" to xml so the data can be manipulated on the client side.
The final 2 sets show the basics of Spry generated pages. The first (merchandise) uses one XML static page to produce two datasets: one for some overview material (page title, etc) and the other set, one for items, which will have multiple "rows" of data.
The Galleries page gets two XML pages created on-the-fly with CF. It also illustrates how JS can be used to modify which gallery information is obtained to produce the picture page.
Convert Query to XML via UDFMost of the above was generated for presentation planned for in April '07. Here are a few items that might be of value that were specific to my presentation on Dec. 18th 2007.