RPG to XML - XML - RPG +/-

Got a question asked of me and I thought I would pass it to the group for
more input.

 I have a question concerning
generating an XML document from an RPG program.  I am trying to accomplish
a task of generating XML data from an AS/400 UDB database file to send  to
insurance carriers and receive back XML data and populate the AS/400 UDB
database file with the results.  Here are some additional facts concerning
this issue:  We are going to be requesting real time insurance quotes from
our insurance carrier partners.  One of our insurance carriers has a
framework in place that accepts and sends quote requests via XML.  My
question is how can we take an AS/400 file that has been created by a RPG
ILE program and send it to the insurance carrier via HTTP in XML format??
The insurance carrier said we can send the data as one large text field and
they would take care of parsing it out on their end.  Also, how would we
receive the XML data back into the AS/400 and put it back into the AS/400
file??  I know there are some programs out on the IBM Alphaworks site to
deal with this, but very unclear.  The ideal solution would be to
accomplish this directly from our RPG ILE program that creates the file
that is in the format that the insurance carriers need.


John Carr


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