Re: XML to 5250

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@partner400.com>
> What I am trying to do is to build a new app with completely separated UI
> logic.
>
> So - it seemed to me that defining the data in XML and using XSL to do the
> browser transforms was a reasonable approach to this.  What I wanted to do
> was apply the same principals to the 5250 users.  Since using conventional
> DDS based screens does not offer the required flexibility, the notion was
to
> generate the 5250 XSL (or some internal equivalent) by working with some
> kind of design tool to determine where on the screen each piece of the data
> should be displayed etc. etc.  The XML would then be transformed into 5250
> datastream (and back) by the UI handler.
>
>
> So - does this work?  If not - what is the alternative?
>

Jon, I have worked on a project where we did this, but no special tool
was used. Maybe somebody knows what magic dust to sprinkle over
the screen. We didn't, but it was not hard to do in the first place, so
we stopped looking for tools.