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Rick, There should be no need to convert the file as long as the XML is encoded in a fixed length format like ISO-8859-1. A lot depends on whether the data arrives on your AS/400 directly, how it is being sent, and the languages you feel comfortable with. One of the first things I would look at if you have experience with Java is Axis. It will run fine on your iSeries system and provides support for http and smtp transports. Axis is evolving daily and IBM recently dumped a lot of their Web services support into the project (like they did with other Apache projects). A lot of that code is not fully integrated at this point but what is there and working satisfies 80% of today's requirements. The other 20% would be some widely deployed proprietary formats like BizTalk. You can find out more about Axis at http://xml.apache.org/axis Once you get your XML file onto your system, you will need to parse it and write the results to your database. JDom and JTOpen make that pretty easy if you are OK with Java. I have done some work in that area and plan to release some code as open source soon through the iseries-toolkit at http://www.iseries-toolkit.org. That code does a lot of what IBM's XML extenders product does, but it is more flexible and more work. If you are RPGIV literate and on V5R1 or later, I would consider JDOM from within RPG as a means to parse your XML and write to a database file. I like the fact that IBM made an XML RPG parser available, but it is a little too convoluted to recommend. Another option, if you just want something off the shelf, is to use the DB2 XML extenders. That solution has a pretty steep learning curve and is not as easy to use as it should be and has some serious limitations. It may make sense if you plan on receiving new document formats all the time and just dumping them into a similarly structured database. David Morris >>> the400man@hotmail.com 08/16/02 07:04AM >>> We just closed an agreement to receive an EDI - type transmission in which the data file will be sent and retrieved in XML format. Having virtualy no experience with XML, I have no idea about how or what software might: 1. convert the file to a CSV or text - type format 2. convert to EBCDIC and land it on the AS400 Thanks much. Rick Rayburn
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