Re: Bob's letter on V5R4 RPG stuff

Aaron Bartell wrote:
> 
> Can anybody elaborate on the path=xmlnode/name feature of the %XML bif?  It
> is mentioned that SAX is being used, but the path feature leads me to
> believe that there is DOM functionality involved also which wasn't directly
> mentioned (not that it needs to be I guess). DOM leans toward the entire
> document being loaded into memory and the programmer picks what values it
> wants out of the document when they want them vs. doing the SAX event driven
> model with call-backs.
> 

XML-INTO doesn't use DOM.  The SAX callbacks in the RPG runtime keep
track of the XML elements.

By the way, the "path" feature is only available with XML-INTO.  With
XML-SAX, you have to do it all yourself.