Re: Handling large character strings pre V6R1

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Keith,

Write your XML to a stream file or user space.  A user space has a 16mb 
limit.  Stream files the limit depends on the file system, but they can 
be much larger than 16mb.

In either case you have to use doc=file.  For a user space, the document 
name would be specified as /qsys.lib/xxxxxxxxxx.lib/yyyyyyyyyy.usrspc 
replace xxxxxxxxxxx with the library name, and yyyyyyyyyy with the user 
space name.  For a stream file, just use the IFS path.

Good luck


Keith McCully wrote:
> 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