I swear, every time I find some­thing about Cold­Fu­sion MX 7 to fall in love with, I get slapped across the face two min­utes later. Really!

This time it was XML CFFORMs. After I real­ized Flash CFFORM wasn’t going to cut it for my nefar­i­ous pur­poses, I started play­ing with XML CFFORMs. Pic­ture this: I’m deep in the process of cre­at­ing my own XML CFFORM skin — it’s tak­ing a while as I’ve never played with XSLT before, but it’s look­ing nicer and get­ting there (who­ever designed the built in skins and made them all iden­ti­cal except for the hideous colour scheme must have had a real sense of humour). I’m about to get adven­tur­ous and try inte­grat­ing the awe­some WebFX tab pane — it seems like the per­fect use for CFFORMGROUP “panel” type. I’m hav­ing fun!

So then I get to con­vert­ing a CFFORM that I had cre­ated in Flash for­mat. It used the very cool CFCALENDAR tag. I change the type to XML and it doesn’t work anymore.

Huh? A quick Live­Docs con­sul­ta­tion con­firms that CFCALENDAR is only sup­ported in Flash and HTML forms, not XML forms. I can’t imag­ine why. I’m on the verge of going back to do-it-yourself HTML forms. In fact, if it wasn’t for the way cool­ness of XSLT and the poten­tial things I could do, validation-wise, I prob­a­bly would.

Argh, why is my life so com­pli­cated? I wanna love CFMX 7, really I do! But it’s tough!