Re: XML, COBOL, and files

Mike,

ILE COBOL supports XML file creation.  I would advise asking this question
again, but on the COBOL list.

From the ILE COBOL Language Reference manual:

V5R3 added;

XML support

XML PARSE statement provides the interface to a high-speed XML parser that
is part of the COBOL run time. The XML PARSE statement parses an XML
document into its individual pieces and passes each piece, one at a time, to
a user-written processing procedure.

These XML special registers are used to communicate information between the
XML parser and the user-written processing procedure:

  - XML-CODE
  - XML-EVENT
  - XML-NTEXT
  - XML-TEXT

V5R4 added;

XML support has been enhanced. A new statement, XML GENERATE , converts the
content of COBOL data records to XML format. XML GENERATE creates XML
documents encoded in Unicode UCS-2 or in one of several single-byte EBCDIC
or ASCII CCSIDs.

HTH