Re: XML-INTO - RNX0353 reason code 1

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Paul,

There's an option for that, too.  Try specifying trim=none in your Options.

I'm guessing that feature was put there because of RPGers insistence on 
putting XML data into physical files  (flat files) with fixed-length 
fields?  Once they've done that, there's no way the document can comply 
with XML standards -- but RPG programmers seem to like to put data into 
PFs.   The trim option (which is on by default) removes the extra spaces 
that the PF adds.

Of course, for those who don't want it (you), just specify trim=none.



On 12/27/2010 12:26 PM, Paul Nicolay wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Thanks for pointing me out... while it is another system (it could have
> been a PTF issue) that I tried this "nicely formatted" example, I used
> XML-INTO plenty of times without any issue.  Anyway, I should stop
> formatting XML tags nicely in examples.
>
> Anyway, the reason I was making this example is... demonstrate that
> whitespace is NOT preserved by XML-INTO ?  If I changed the XML to...
>
>     XML = '<myRoot><aString>Hello
> world</aString></myRoot>';
>
> And parse it, the variable myRoot.aString contains "Hello world" with
> only one, instead of 20 blanks ?
>
> According to http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_syntax.asp this is not
> correct, and XML should preserve its whitespace unlike HTML (where you
> can force it with&nbsp; which isn't recognized by XML neither).
>
> Kind regards,
> Paul