XML Programming

Creating XML is dirt simple using plain old RPG.  Unless you have to send
binary data or large CDATA structures (neither one of which should be sent
via XML), then generating XML is about as difficult as creating a comma
delimited file.  Varying field and the %trim BIF are your friend.  And if
your data is a little hinky (that is, has non-alphameric characters such as
angle brackets and apostrophes), you might want to use %scan and %subst.

 

Joe

 

 

> From: Brad Stone

> 

> Creating is fairly easy with a toolkit (you forgot the eRPG

> SDK in your list <lol>).  But then again, you need the

> knowledge of XML in the first place... no tool gives you

> that.. That comes through (OH NO!) education and practice!