Re: Create a generic mapping function that will use XML-SAX

What I was suggesting is leaving any and all hard-coding outside of this generic program so it could play the part of parsing all XML documents it comes in contact with so no other programs on the system would have to perform any XML parsing. I have written such a program for RPG-XML Suite (www.rpg-xml.com) but that obviously doesn't help this situation if you don't have that software package, though it wouldn't be that hard to recreate with IBM's parser as they give you all the necessary parsing events to accomplish the task.

I had to head over to wikipedia to learn about what a finite-state-machine was :-) And I still don't completely follow you, but that is fine as long as we can come to conclusions on the details (maybe if I have some more coffee I will catch on :-).

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

sjl wrote:

I wrote:
That sounds rather like a state machine...

then Aaron wrote:
Maybe you could expound on your comment
as I am not sure what you are getting at.


Aaron -

I was a little confused on what you wrote.

I was thinking along the line of instead of having the XML tag names hard-coded in the program to storing them in a database file and let the program process thru the tag names stored in the database file for parsing the XML document, which I believe makes it similar to a finite-state-machine.

Does that make sense?

- sjl