RE: Write to a XML document

David,

You may want to read up on XML. It's not rocket science by any stretch
of the imagination. http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp is a great
place to start.

Matt

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Subject: Fw: Write to a XML document




Nearly 2 years ago the first JAVA developer arrived in our service and
we started our own developement of our web site.

Us RPG programmers have been creating a kind of text files with this
kind of format to the IFS, for the JAVA guy to exploit :

+source(tSource)

|library=QSYS

|file=QRPGLESRC

|member=M1

+procedure(tProcedure)

|name=AcqAdrP

|descriptif= line 1

|descriptif= line 2,etc

-procedure

-source

I've only just discovered that these files are then converted to XML.
This raises a numger of problems. I'm having difficulty understanding
why we don't just write directly to XML. Something to do with validity
checking. Can anyone explain this to me in simple terms ?

Thanks