Re: COBOL to web page solved

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kelly,

You wrote:
>(1) the end-of-file label added to text files by
>commands like CPYTOPCD and CPYTOSMF disrupts the
>well-formedness of the XML document,

I would not have expected the end-of-file character (Ctrl-Z) to disrupt
the document since it is commonly added to text documents created under
windoze, and windoze is commonly used to create XML documents.  However,
using the IFS apis to write directly to the stream file will solve that
issue.

>(2) an ampersand ('&') between tags can disrupt the
>well-formedness of the XML document (and many of our
>corporate partner names have an '&' in them), and

To quote from my XML reference** "The ampersand character (&) and the left
angle bracket (<) may appear in their literal form ONLY when used as
markup delimiters, or within a comment, a processing instruction, or a
CDATA section.  If they are needed elsewhere, they must be escaped using
either numeric character references or the strings "&amp;" and "&lt"
resecptively. ..."

You should always escape special characters --- even in pure HTML -- since
some browsers are less forgiving than others.

**Mastering XML by Chuck White, Liam Quin, and Linda Burman.
ISBN 0-7821-2847-5

>(3) the rendering of XML as a web page using XSL was
>noticably slower than the loading an HTML document
>into the browser (this is an issue with larger
>reports).

This problem is either: a function of insufficient PC resources, a
function of the particular XSLT you are using, a function of the
particular browser, or a combination of these.  You need a fast CPU, you
need efficient XSL, and you need the latest browser updates to get good
rendering speed.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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