Re: Learning XML

[Cole Gantz <colegantz@xxxxxxxxx>]

We're on V5R4M0.  Is this something that is difficult to pickup?
 
Cole
 



----- Original Message ----
From: Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400 <cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:06:11 AM
Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] Learning XML

What release are you on?  COBOL was supposed to add XML generation in  
the V5R4 release but I haven't checked if it happened.

I use CGIDEV2 (www.easy400.net) - IBM's free web tools - to generate  
XML from RPG.  No reason to think that the COBOL interfaces to CGIDEV2  
wouldn't work as well but I have not tried them personally.

If you decide to write your own in the end, take the extra time to  
develop a template (i.e. mailmerge) type system similar to the way  
that CGIDEV2 works.  You'll thank yourself for it later.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com


On 10-Jun-08, at 9:17 AM, Cole Gantz wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> We have a project where we need to create an XML document and send  
> it somewhere.  Where can I learn to do this?  We want to use COBOL  
> on our system i.  Is this a good idea?
>
> Cole
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