RE: Creating XML data for posting

You can do what you show below but you have to escape certain items in the data (&, <, and > plus any Unicode characters -- may be some others).

HTTP API comes with an XML parser which you can use to generate the XML. This will save you from having to do the escaping yourself. The API is documented in the examples so I would assume there's an example of using this parser to create an XML document in one of them.

Starting with V5R4, there are also some native XML tools in RPG but I don't have any experience with them.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:50 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Creating XML data for posting

I'm planning to use Scott's HTTP api to do my first http post/get to and
from the a web service. This is also the first time that I'll be
creating a XML in RPG. Just curious as how would one normally create a
XML data in RPG.

Do you just do:

XMLData =
'<?xml version="1.0"?>' +
'<myTagLevel1>' +

'<myTagLevel2A>' +
myTagLevel2AVariable +
'</myTagLevel2A>' +

'<myTagLevel2B>' +
myTagLevel2BVariable +
'</myTagLevel2B>' +
. . . .
'</myTagLeve1>'


Or is there sometype of tool that I can use that will make it a bit
easier to read and maintain?

thanks