[mar77i]

I don't get how you could think "interpreted XML" was a good idea. Great, you don't need context switching the way PHP does it, but instead of properly splitting templates and code, ColdFusion still mixes both while managing to be less readable.

Added to that I feel unable to imagine a piece of indented 80 column wide XML that doesn't somehow curl up on the right edge. It's certainly not for me, but I won't tell you not to use anything.

Paraphrasing a thing I heard on the internet: XML is like violence, if it doesn't solve your problem, maybe you need to use ColdFusion?

[bdcravens]

CFML isn’t just tagged based. It also has a c-style syntax (cfscript). A best practice is to use cfscript for models and controllers, and tags for your views.