Re: XML parsing (RPG commands)

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

RPG IV allows up to 4096 for a field name. Just use a separate line and

d vehicle_salvage-obtain-date...
d                                     25a

Sounds like your are going to have to use a %Handler for the decoding
because of the dashes. I don't know how to get around it otherwise.

Would definitely not go back to doing your own decoding.


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Lowary, Jim <jlowary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just started looking at the commands and   XML-INTO and XML-SAX .
> It seems that both of these expect to have a DataStructure with the
> names for the fields to match the element tags and attribute names.  Is
> this correct, or am I missing something?
>
> I will have a vendors file that will have tags with "-" (dashes)  in
> them, not a valid RPG field name, so how do you handle this?  Also some
> of the elements/attribute names could be longer than what RPG allows for
> fields length name.
> Ie:  <reference-id> 12345678-01</reference-id>
> <vehicle-savlage-obtain-date>20090101</vehicle-savlage-obtain-date>
>
> Do I go back to brute force and code the decode myself?   Getting the
> vendor to change is not an option.
>
> I just hope I am missing something!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
> -- Jim Lowary
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