RE: XML to 5250

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

> I think I'll have to abandon this thread since I'm apparently 
> incapable of describing what I'm after!

Yes you can do what you are describing.

I have, in a previous life, coded the following;

Native server programs create 'a text representation' of a green screen
Multiple client programs to the servers did different things:
a) native client took the stream and using USRDFN record and produced the 5250 
stream
b) web client took the stream and dynamically created HTML
c) PC client took the stream and dynamically created controls in a Windows 
'window'
d) server 'client' on another server took the stream and processed it as if it 
was entered by a user.

You just need to create the XSD to be able to describe all 'screens' - and 
actually the original 5250 data stream definition is a pretty good place to 
start.

--phil