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ColdFusion doesn't seem to get the respect it deserves amongst the dedicated Java or .NET or even PHP development circles, but having worked in all of those environments, I'd like to state for the record, that completing a large scale development project AHEAD of schedule, keeping your Busine

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

ss Managers and Projects Managers happy, and let's not forget the most important of all... THE CLIENT...Well, that's priceless. Well worth any investment made towards ColdFusion.

Web services, RSS, XML, SOAP to name several, are all welcomed friends to the ColdFusion web development languag

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

. This article will focus on the likes of RSS and XML.

Definition:

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts. Consumers of RSS content use special browsers called aggregators to watch for ne

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

content in dozens or even hundreds of web feeds. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:

Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)

RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic s

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ecification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed", "webfeed", "RSS stream", or "RSS channel".

That's the Wikipedia definition for an RSS feed. What's not mentioned is that developers are able to take advantage of the content provided by these RSS

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

feeds to display current and changing data on their websites, which adds value to the website and hopefully bring return visitors for more of the information that you provide.

Consuming an RSS feed in ColdFusion can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. There are several ways

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

r more, to do this in ColdFusion. Parsing through array elements and defining the parent elements to children and testing for grandchildren elements, and recursive behaviors etc. But this article is not for the experienced ColdFusion developer. This article is for someone who might like to

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

see some of the "ease of operation" of ColdFusion and how it relates to a popular web practice known as RSS.

We'll look at a fun and popular feed from RollingStone Magazine. Located here http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/album_reviews.xml as of the time of this article.

It's a feed that I

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ave implemented on several of my websites. Now it's important to note that you should select feeds that are relevant to your website, I have several music based websites and thus having an "Album Review" feed was appropriate. Ok, so now what do we do with this feed you ask? Well, basically t

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ere are only 3 steps to consuming and parsing an XML/RSS feed.

1. Read the Feed in
2. Loop through the elements of the feed
3. Display the feed

Am I simplifying things a bit? Not really, the purpose here is to show how ColdFusion can do much of the 'heavy lifting' as it pertains t

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

application development making many day to day programming tasks much less tedious.

Here's an example:

In ColdFusion we read the feed in like this.

< cfhttp url="http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/album_reviews.xml" method="GET" resolveurl="No">< /cfhttp >
< cfset album_reviews_xml

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

XMLParse(cfhttp.FileContent) >

What this does is utilize the CFHTTP tag in ColdFusion which has many many uses, in this case it performs the request for the XML document on the server.

The second line defines a variable called "album_reviews_xml" and gives it the value of the http response.

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

Using the built in function "XMLParse()" in ColdFusion takes the http response and delivers it to your browser in XML format or as an XML Object for you OOP guys.

If you would like to have ColdFusion show you a 'pretty' presentation of the XML you can simply add a cfdump statement to your do

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ument and you will see a nicely rendered and easy to read xml structure.

The next step is parsing or looping through the elements of the XML Object.

You do that like this:

< cfoutput >
< cfloop index="x" from="1" to="#ArrayLen(album_reviews_xml.rss.channel.item)#" >
Title: #album

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

_reviews_xml.rss.channel.item[x].title.xmlText#
Link: < a href="#album_reviews_xml.rss.channel.item
[x].link.xmlText#" >click here< /a >
Description:#album_reviews_xml.rss.channel.item[x].description.xmlText#

< /cfloop >
< /cfoutput >

This loop as shown, itera

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

es through all of the elements of the document and displays the most common items in an RSS feed which are the TITLE, LINK and DESCRIPTION. Some feeds aren't formed entirely to standard and may have other elements designs, and of course this is not all of the data that you can get from an RS

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

feed, again it's just the most common and standard elements returned through RSS. But if the document provided by the RSS feed generator is to standard and well formed, you will see these 3 elements in most every RSS feed.

As you can see displaying an RSS feed in ColdFusion is easy and pro

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ides real time up to date information that you can provide to your visitors on your website.

You can apply style sheets and html formatting to your feeds and present the information in a pleasant looking way that visitors will enjoy reading.

An example where I use these feeds can be seen in

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

action here http://www.news-junkie.net. This is a personal site that I had developed a while ago that is a simple news aggregation website with a number of different topics. I found it fun to develop and good practice working with xml and ColdFusion. The information is constantly updated a

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

d visitors to my site see fresh new articles everyday, and all I have to do now that it is built, is keep the domain name active and maybe switch around a few of my affiliate links which hopefully provide a little income to pay for the hosting of the site.

Thanks for reading and Happy Coding

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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