Re: XML-INTO - RNX0353 reason code 1

hi Paul,

There's an option for that, too. Try specifying trim=none in your Options.

I'm guessing that feature was put there because of RPGers insistence on putting XML data into physical files (flat files) with fixed-length fields? Once they've done that, there's no way the document can comply with XML standards -- but RPG programmers seem to like to put data into PFs. The trim option (which is on by default) removes the extra spaces that the PF adds.

Of course, for those who don't want it (you), just specify trim=none.



On 12/27/2010 12:26 PM, Paul Nicolay wrote:

Hi Scott,

Thanks for pointing me out... while it is another system (it could have
been a PTF issue) that I tried this "nicely formatted" example, I used
XML-INTO plenty of times without any issue. Anyway, I should stop
formatting XML tags nicely in examples.

Anyway, the reason I was making this example is... demonstrate that
whitespace is NOT preserved by XML-INTO ? If I changed the XML to...

XML = '<myRoot><aString>Hello
world</aString></myRoot>';

And parse it, the variable myRoot.aString contains "Hello world" with
only one, instead of 20 blanks ?

According to http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_syntax.asp this is not
correct, and XML should preserve its whitespace unlike HTML (where you
can force it with&nbsp; which isn't recognized by XML neither).

Kind regards,
Paul