Lines 34-45 handle looping over any properties in ColdFusion's metadata, if any exist. For each property, I make a call to getXMLProperty(), which pulls the property node out of the XML document. Then I merge the results in with ColdFusion's metadata.

//loop over each property in meta data structure
for(z=1; z lte arraylen(arguments.stMetaData.properties); z=z+1){
   propertyName = arguments.stMetaData.properties[z].name;

//retrieve property meta data from XML document
   stPropertyDetail = getXMLProperty(property=propertyName);

//append each XML Meta Data to CFC property
   for(x in stPropertyDetail){
arguments.stAllProperties[propertyName][x] = duplicate(stPropertyDetail[x]);
}
}

Lines 60-89 shows how I read the XML file in getXMLProperty () and search for the property using XPath query and how I return a structure containing the property's attributes:

<cfscript>
//parse XML file into a CF XML Object
xmlMetaData = xmlParse(strXML);
//search for passed property in XML Document
arProperty = xmlSearch(xmlMetaData,"
//properties/property[@name='#arguments.property#']");

//retrieve property attributes
stAttribs = arProperty[1].xmlAttributes;
return stAttribs;
</cfscript>

The net result is a merge of property metadata stored in an XML document with ColdFusion's metadata (see Figure 2). Once I have the merge complete, I can use this data to generate all of the cool functionality provided by cfcPowerTools.