Re: Writing XML from RPGLE

Exactly my point, Brad - we're on the same wavelength - the proprietary nature of the XLSX (Office Open XML specification) did scare me off at first - and I ended up trying to use the 2003 Spreadsheet XML that several (Job Paris, Paul Tuohy, etc.) have presented - that turned out to be untenable here, due to size, for one thing. So I went back to look at the structure of XLSX and found it not completely opaque!

Speaking for myself, I'm not interested only in XML - that's a minor detail.

My interest in things other than CGIDEV2 is somewhat theoretical right now. At the same time, I want to consider the needs of different kinds of projects - JSON vs XML vs HTML vs ??? - hey, maybe one could put together something for UIM! A code generator for UIM panel groups that uses one of these approaches!

Vern

On 8/22/2014 9:02 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:16 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

But his current concern is specifically XML (Excel .xlsx files), so
support for other formats is a pretty low priority for him. He's
already enthusiastically endorsed CGIDEV2 countless times on this
list, including the message you just quoted from him.

I must have missed that. Seems rather proprietary, but still can be done
fairly simply with the template applications mentioned.

Brad