RE: XML Toolkit concatenating strings on multiple calls

Jon,

They keep me in a padded cube with no sharp objects allowed. <grin>

I did find them and you are correct, very poor.


You are also correct about overkill, as was Neill. But that is something I wanted to find out. I think from what I have seen from working with the toolkit and replies on this thread I'm just going to concatenate the string. Maybe I'll revisit it later if I have a more complicated XML to create.

I would like to understand its validation capabilities though for XML we receive from outside the iSeries.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 6:11 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XML Toolkit concatenating strings on multiple calls


On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:56 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The only documentation we have lists the procedure calls and parameters

but I haven't been able to find descriptions or examples.

You should probably be grateful that you couldn't find the examples. The
only ones I found were basically C examples converted to RPG IV complete
with %Alloc etc. all over the place for no apparent reason. Had you found
those examples you'd have probably slit your wrists by now. <grin>

I thought Nathan Andelin had written a better example for System i News -
but I can't find it.

Nn the whole I agree with Henrik - for most XML generation purposes the
toolkit is complete overkill. I'd only really consider using it for the DOM
parsing and in-situ update capabilities. Too much like hard work for anything
else. Henrik's XML APIs in powerEXT Core (http://www.powerext.com/) or
Larry Ducie's XMLi (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmli/) are much better
choices IMO than the IBM tooling.



Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com




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