Re: Get string representation of DOM_Document

Aaron,

I am afraid I cannot help you here, as my XML project (self initiated) is put 
on hold due to other priorities.

I think it has to with the encoding to Unicode. And I agree with you on this: 
it is very cumbersome. For instance chEqual is a programme variable/constant 
containing one character: "=". You can build such a string easier with Eval, 
%string it and put that string in the DOM-tree, using AttrName2@x

But then it has been said: OO languages are more suited for XML, than RPG. I 
doubt that statement. Looking plainly at the output of an XML document you can 
do it with a recursively called procedure, whether or not you're using the XML 
parser API's.

Having said this, let's not start another OO thread.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler


*********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********

On 14-5-03 at 11:23 Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) wrote:

>I am working on some serialization sub procedures and am looking at how to get 
>the string representation of an XML document
<SNIP>
>After studying the API's it seems you must got to great lengths to get a 
>string representation of an XML document regardless of >whether you use SAX or 
>DOM.  For instance here is some code to produce the 'id' attribute in Order.
>
>// You have to literally add each character including spaces.
>...
>QxmlXMLFormatter_streamoutXMLCh(gFormatter@: %ADDR(chSpace))   // Add Space
>
>QxmlXMLFormatter_streamoutDOMString(gFormatter@: AttrName2@)   // Add
>Attribute Name                            
>QxmlXMLFormatter_streamoutXMLCh(gFormatter@: %ADDR(chEqual))   // Add the
>equal sign                        
>QxmlXMLFormatter_streamoutXMLCh(gFormatter@: %ADDR(chDoubleQuote)) //Start
>the double quote                     
>QxmlXMLFormatter_setEscapeFlags(gFormatter@: Qxml_AttrEscapes)   // not
>sure
>yet                      
>QxmlXMLFormatter_streamoutDOMString(gFormatter@: AttrVal2@)   // Add the
>value of the Attribute                             
>QxmlXMLFormatter_setEscapeFlags(gFormatter@: Qxml_NoEscapes) // not sure
>yet
>
>QxmlXMLFormatter_streamoutXMLCh(gFormatter@: %ADDR(chDoubleQuote)) //End
>the
>double quote
>YIKES!  Is there an easier way with the provided API's?