Re: Creating XML data for posting

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

COBOL?

Seriously,  I believe ILE COBOL includes XML formatting functionality
that hasn't yet made it to RPG.

So you might consider having a COBOL module do the formatting.

Charles


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Lim Hock-Chai
<Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm planning to use Scott's HTTP api to do my first http post/get to and
> from the a web service.  This is also the first time that I'll be
> creating a XML in RPG.  Just curious as how would one normally create a
> XML data in RPG.
>
> Do you just do:
>
> XMLData =
>  '<?xml version="1.0"?>'  +
>  '<myTagLevel1>' +
>
>     '<myTagLevel2A>' +
>        myTagLevel2AVariable +
>     '</myTagLevel2A>' +
>
>     '<myTagLevel2B>' +
>        myTagLevel2BVariable +
>     '</myTagLevel2B>' +
>       . . . .
>  '</myTagLeve1>'
>
>
> Or is there sometype of tool that I can use that will make it a bit
> easier to read and maintain?
>
> thanks
>
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