Re: So let me get this straight.... (XML in RPG)

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike wrote:
> IBM provides me a way to read XML, but not to create XML? So I have to
> manually put together an XML document?

As Emeril is so fond of saying, It ain't rocket science. ;-) And even 
parsing XML isn't all that difficult.

How I generate XML:

1. Get a dump of a known-good sample of the sort of XML you're to 
generate (usually something to feed a SOAP web service).

2. Break it down into easy-to-handle chunks: all the fixed content 
leading up to the first thing you have to generate on the fly, then 
that, then the next block of fixed content, and so forth. Each chunk 
should be either all fixed, or all variable.

3. Write code to build the variable chunks, and concatenate them with 
the fixed ones, in the correct sequence.

4. Send it.

Parsing what comes back without an XML parser isn't as hard as it may 
seem, either; all you have to do is scan for the tags delimiting the 
data that's of interest, and ignore the rest.

--
JHHL