RE: Reading XML with an RPG program

I checked out the Expat on Scott's site, downloaded the savf, and tried to access the articles describing how to use it from RPG.

Bummer: you need a ProVIP membership to read them.

Well, I'll probably learn more by trying to figure it out by myself anyway.

Thanks for the info!


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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: woensdag 4 maart 2009 6:16
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Reading XML with an RPG program

Paul,

There are at least a dozen ways to read XML from RPG. Different
methods
require different releases and LPPs.

a) Expat is free (open source) and should work on V5R2 with no
problems.
It requires a little more knowledge/programming.
http://www.scottklement.com/expat/

b) the XML-INTO/XML-SAX RPG opcodes were released in V5R4. XML-INTO is
especially easy to use -- but does have limitations, it won't work with
all docs, and of course it requires V5R4.

c) The IBM XML Toolkit has been around for quite a long time.. I don't
remember which release it started in. Frankly, it's really cumberssome
to use, and all of the examples were written by C programmers (they
translated their C to RPG -- but it's not the way an RPG programmer
would write code. Lots of pointer logic, etc...) IMHO, it's not a
good
way to get started with XML, it's too complicated. The XML Toolkit is
an LPP.

d) There are many, many 3rd party options out there.

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