Re: New XML Project

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use both RPG-XML. and Scott's Expat port. I can say both work really
well. What's the planned XML usage? Sending XML? Receiving XML? Both?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> RWMunday wrote:
>  > I ordered the XML book from Midrange Press and it will be waiting for me
>  > when I arrive home on Friday afternoon.  Until then, where can I go for an
>  > overview of XML with RPG on the i5?
>
>  If you are working with V5R4 or later, you can use RPG's native XML
>  handling in many cases.  Really massive XML documents may be cumbersome
>  due to RPG's data structure size limitations.  Jon Paris has a series of
>  articles on this functionality, one of which is
>  http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/rpg-has-sax-appeal.html.
>
>  V5R1 to V5R3, you can use Scott Klement's port of the Expat XML parser,
>  see http://www.scottklement.com/expat/ for details.  I believe Google
>  will turn up some tutorial-style articles from Scott on the topic.
>  Actually, you can use this in V5R4+ too, but I'm not aware of any
>  compelling reason to choose Expat over native RPG XML processing.  Expat
>  is probably a bit more difficult to get going with, but might be more
>  flexible.
>
>  Expat is what I've used for my XML parsing needs, and it works well for
>  me.  One thing to be aware of is that you should try to read all of
>  Scott's articles and all of examples included with the package, because
>  the later one use some cleaner techniques that take advantage of some
>  RPG features added at later V5 releases, such as the ability to have the
>  open() function for stream files do automatic ASCII-EBCDIC conversion
>  instead of having to call iconv() directly.
>
>  Another option is the DB2 Extenders for XML from IBM.  This is an
>  extra-charge add on to DB2/i5.  There have been discussions of it on
>  this list from users of the product.
>
>  I'm sure there are lots of possibilities if you bring Java in to the
>  mix, but I'm not at all familiar with that end of the spectrum.
>
>  There are also vendors in this space.  I've looked in to the RPG-XML
>  Suite from Krengeltech.  I've only looked at the documentation, but the
>  API seemed handy and well-thought out to me.  Aaron Bartell would be
>  able to tell you more about this one.
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