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  3. June 2008

Re: Automating foreign currency exch. rates

Adam West wrote:
There is this one web site that provides free [RSS] feeds on the exhange rates daily.

What would be a way to get this type of data, onto an Iseries Physical file?

RSS feeds are just XML documents in a certain format that can be accessed using HTTP. See, for example, http://xkcd.com/rss.xml.

If I were doing it, I'd write an RPG program that called Scott Klement's HTTP API to retrieve the XML . Then I'd have another program that used RPG's built in XML support to parse the XML document and write the info to a file.

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