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Hi Peter,

XML-INTO will fill in only the elements that it found in the XML document. The remaining elements in your array are undefined (point to adjacent memory) and you should not use them. Using them would be "bad."

The number of elements that are passed to your %HANDLER is given to you in the 3rd parameter to your procedure.



Peter Connell wrote:
HELP.


I have a major deadline to meet and have now discovered that my
%XML-INTO handler routine is not working as expected.


The handler has been defined to process a DIM(40) array.

This appears to have been working until now when an investigation of a
decimal data error reveals that the data structure that the data
structure passed to the handler is corrupted when subsequent elements in
the xml document are missing.

For example, a person-name element may contain 1st 2nd an last names in
one occurrence but on the next may only contain the last name.

The missing name elements get populated with whatever might be found in
some other element.

This is disastrous , since fields are then presented to the code in the
handler containing rubbish.


Of course, I have compile the XML-INTO with the XmlOptions parameter to
allow for missing elements as follows.

D XmlOptions C 'allowmissing=yes allowextra=yes -

D doc=file case=any
path='

This issue must surely have arisen before on this forum but I can't find
it.

I have just been advised that a workaround is to set the array to DIM(1)
so that the handler is call for each element of a multiple element xml
structure.


Regards,

Peter




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