RE: cXML -- RPG400-L

Sorry I'm late getting to this thread.

Alphaworks Summary;

IBM's example code has 80 parsing API's in a row, with one [SHORT!] line
of what it is doing.

Since I was doing a simple XML project, I chose to accept standard in,
parse it myself by looking for the tokens I needed, then calling a
net.data macro to answer.  Development was days, the macro formatted the
XML, and internet exploder actually was a HUGE help in debugging my
responses since it parses and formats the XML.  I used GETURI from Brad
Stone's bvstools.com website to post XML requests  - I couldn't find an
equivalent tool in the PC world - and was pleased as punch when it was
over.  GETURI can be used to make requests to web servers, and was a
perfect test bed.

My parsing routine was one I wrote for getting Cookies from my web
programming - so making it look for 5 fields and giving me data
associated within them was cool.  The XML request is probably NEVER
going to be a standard enough stream to go into a relational database
request, so using the API's seemed a little overkill for the application
I was doing, and frankly I'm not sure where I actually can use them.
Net.Data formatted the output after sending the header of text/xml -
which looks REALLY cool.

Let me know if this helps!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:49 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: cXML

Thanks for the link.

>AFAIK, there are two XML parsers that can be used on the AS400;

Actually if you are using Java on the AS400 you can utilize any XML
parser
that you want.  That is what is cool about the java community. They
develop
interfaces for complex packages to ease the use.

I am currently trying out javax.xml.parsers.* which is not necessarily
"supported" by IBM, but when using Java you don't have to wait for IBM
to do
their thing so you can use certain functionalities.

Aaron Bartell
-----Original Message-----
From: DeLong, Eric [mailto:EDeLong@Sallybeauty.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:29 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: cXML


Aaron,

I too had not heard of this, so I found the following link.
http://www.cxml.org/prnews/faq.cfm
Looks like nothing more than a DTD spec for a common b2b standard that
is
being developed.

I think this should be usable on the AS400, though I've done nothing
with
XML.  AFAIK, there are two XML parsers that can be used on the AS400;
IBM's
XML for C++ v3.5.1 (Xerces C++ parser v1.5.0) which *can* be used in
RPGIV
and ILE Cobol, and the XML parser for Java v3.2.1 (Xerces-J v1.4.2)

Information about IBM's XML offerings can be had at:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/xml


Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Sr. Programmer/Analyst
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:58 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: cXML


What is the difference between cXML and XML?  I haven't even heard of
cXML
yet.

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Rizo, Alex L. (RPW) [mailto:ALRizo@reliefprinting.com]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:52 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: cXML


is their a utility on the AS400 that will read/covert/interpret cXML to
either a physical File or DDS
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