Re: Handling large character strings pre V6R1

Cor and Scott - thanks for your user space suggestion.

Scott, currently the program has the MQGET api ouputting a pointer to the
variable Buffer:

D BufAdr S * INZ(%ADDR(Buffer))
D Buffer S 1000A DIM(800)

MQGET(HConn: HObj: MsgDsc: GMO:
BufLen: BufAdr: DataLen: MQCde: Reason);

Could MQGET output a pointer to a user space instead?

If so, I could load the user space directly from MQ and then input into the
%XML BIF or do I have to load the user space from the array elements?

Thanks,

Keith





Scott Klement wrote:

Write your XML <http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200811/msg00465.html#>to
a stream file or
user <http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200811/msg00465.html#>space. A
user space has a 16mb limit. Stream files the limit depends on the file
system <http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200811/msg00465.html#>, but
they can be much larger than 16mb.

In either case you have to use doc=file. For a user space, the document
<http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200811/msg00465.html#>name would be
specified as /qsys.lib/xxxxxxxxxx.lib/yyyyyyyyyy.usrspc replace xxxxxxxxxxx
with the library name, and yyyyyyyyyy with the user space name. For a stream
file, just use the IFS path.



Keith McCully wrote:

I see that at V6R1 the maximum character field length has increased to 16Mb.
Fantastic but that doesn't help me at V5R4.

Basically, I want to use the %XML BIF in conjunction with XML-SAX op code to
do some xml parsing on documents up to around 200K. I know I could drop the
document to disk but I want to keep in memory since I receive the data from
an MQ Queue into an array (200 elements of 1Kb). Loading from MQ at array
(not element) level works fine but the
compiler<http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200811/msg00465.html#>complains
if I attempt to
pass this array to %XML.

Is there a workaround to load more than the max of 65535 characters into
%XML?

I've looked at arrays and multi occuring data structures but didn't come up
with anything. Also, considered unnamed data structures as they have
sufficient length but unsure how to use without a handle?

Thanks

Keith