Re: IFS File Update -- RPG400-L

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I know what you're saying Buck, but I'm sure going into the DB2 XML
functions would be as 'interesting' as regex on XML.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/2/2014 2:11 PM, Michael Ryan wrote:

Is there a way in sed to match any character? I'd like to match
<tag>xxx</tag> where xxx could be any three characters. Bonus points if I
could skip <tag></tag>! :) Thanks!

Parsing XML with regular expressions may be the first step on The Path
of Infinite Madness. It's going to sound weird, but have you considered
updating the XML documents more directly? 7.1 has a pretty cool set of
XML operations that DB2 can perform. It might end up being a situation
where you read a copy / replace / write a new document, but I'd do
almost anything to avoid trying to parse XML with a regex.
--buck
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