RE: expat

Very cool...thanks Scott.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: expat
> From: "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, September 01, 2004 12:48 pm
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I remember some conversations about an expat port. Who's done it, where
> > is it, and it's OSS, right?
> 
> Expat actually works almost "out of the box" on the iSeries, the only part
> that doesn't work is the configure script.
> 
> I've converted the source files from stream files to source members,
> created my own configuration member, and created a CL program that
> compiles it...  I've also written RPG prototypes for some of the functions
> (the ones that I use in HTTPAPI, or the ones that I've experimented with)
> 
> However, I have not written any documentation on how to use Expat on the
> iSeries.  You'll have to learn from the standard expat documentation.
> (Should be no problem if you're a C programmer, but maybe a little tricky
> if you're not...)
> 
> You can download my ported copy as a save file (pre-compiled, but
> including the source) from:
>   http://www.scottklement.com/expat/expat-1.95.7.savf
> 
> It's also included and built from source upon request when you install the
> current beta version of HTTPAPI.  (HTTPAPI uses it for XML parsing when
> working with web services)
>   http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/
> 
> The main Expat project page (including some docs on how to use it) is:
>   http://www.libexpat.org
> 
> 
> > I'm going to start working on an OSS project for file transfers using MQ
> > Series and expat is the way I want to go.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
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