RE: Dealing with "special" characters when Parsing XML with RPG

On the subject of special characters and XML, I found that the "less-than" (<) character doesn't always play nice. I have a need to send a password change to a API provided by an ISP. While not specifically excluded by their "characters not permitted" docs, I found that < does bad things in transit. So I added it to *our* list of characters not permitted, and coded an edit to deny it on input.

Michael Koester
Programmer/Analyst
DataEast - Granite State Communications

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck
Calabro
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 10:57 AM
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Subject: Re: Dealing with "special" characters when Parsing XML with RPG

On 12/8/2015 6:42 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:

Ah.. I figured it was something like that.

Can you use hex arguments for the from and to?

It does not look like PASE sed supports working with hex representations,
but tr will work with octal representations.
http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzahz/rzahzsed.htm?lang=en
http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzahz/rzahztr.htm?lang=en

I am having luck using ucs2 data, though. It's not reporting an error

when

converting using %char(). But, I don't how know it's going to look

just

yet. I'll have to check that out before I go a different route.
Maybe it will be as easy as replacing there. (btw, this customer is
currently on
V5R4 until they get some other software working on V7R2... the company
went out of business and didn't leave much for conversions).

But, I wrote my own %scanrpl type function years before IBM had it..
so I can use that. :)

--
--buck

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