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ColdFusion7's hidden tags, what were they again?

I just saw the blog entry over on http://coolskool.blog-city.com/cfant__undocumented_coldfusion_tag.htm about an undocumented ColdFusion tag called "cfant".

This got me thinking, "I wonder what other undocumented tags there are? I wonder how I find them?"

My logic was something along the lines "there must be a list or config file for them somewhere...", so a hunting I went, and after a good solid 2 mins I found the file "taglib.cftld", and opened it with notepad. It looked like XML, so I made a copy of the file, changed the extension to ".xml" and opened it and lo-and-behold, the complete list of ColdFusion tags with attributes, including the "secret" undocumented tags...eg: "CFDATASOURCE" anyone? how 'bout "CFOLDREPORT"?

So, when you have nothing better to do, go to: "WEB-INF\cftags\META-INF" make a copy of the "taglib.cftld" and rename it with a ".xml" file and have a read...

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Or just open it in a text editor - really no need to rename it.
# Posted By todd sharp | 5/25/07 1:06 AM
true, but the main reason for the ".xml" is that I find XML easier to view if it is opened by a program that deals with XML. Collapsing nodes etc
It's a big file in the text editor I use (notepad) ;-)
# Posted By David | 5/25/07 8:29 AM
The taglib.cftld isn't an entirely accurate representation of all the tags in ColdFusion. I've found, for example, the cffunction tag is missing as is cfargument!
# Posted By Simon Whatley | 11/22/07 8:11 PM