Re: XML-INTO element has data plus attribute

On 16-Jul-09, at 1:00 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've discovered a workaround which, though not altogether pleasant, may suffice while at V5R4. At least it works for my particular xml document.
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To obtain the missing PCDATA I perform an extra XML-INTO, whose path resolves right down to the specific element, into a variable whose array dimension is the same as that of the initial XML-INTO. In this case, XML-INTO populates the array with the PCDATA only of the element.

Such an extra XML-INTO would be required for each missing PCDATA element.

The alternative Peter is to use XML-SAX to "fill in the gaps". This has the advantage of allowing multiple values to be retrieved in one pass - although I thought that I had also used your approach to do that as well but ...

I wrote it up for MC Press last year you'll find it here:

https://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/rpg-has-sax-appeal.html



Jon Paris

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