RE: Handling large character strings pre V6R1

Have you looked at userspaces? They are available and can by and large
be passed as huge (up to 16Mb when I last looked at them, which is about
a year ago) strings. Be advised though that at the moment I have no
access to an AS/400, so I cannot help you with the APIs, but a stroll
around the IBM site on the subject of userspaces may help.

Success,

Cor

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith McCully
Sent: donderdag 27 november 2008 22:20
To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Handling large character strings pre V6R1

I see that at V6R1 the maximum character field length has increased

to

16Mb. Fantastic but that doesn't help me at V5R4.

Basically, I want to use the %XML BIF in conjunction with XML-SAX op
code to
do some xml parsing on documents up to around 200K. I know I could

drop

the
document to disk but I want to keep in memory since I receive the data
from
an MQ Queue into an array (200 elements of 1Kb). Loading from MQ at
array
(not element) level works fine but the compiler complains if I attempt
to
pass this array to %XML.

Is there a workaround to load more than the max of 65535 characters
into
%XML?

I've looked at arrays and multi occuring data structures but didn't
come up
with anything. Also, considered unnamed data structures as they have
sufficient length but unsure how to use without a handle?

Thanks

Keith
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