Re: XML-INTO

[Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well at some point XML-INTO needs a way to identify which elements you want
it to write into which program variables.

The way I think of it is that the "end-point" of your rpg structures and
where you path to in the xml file/doc must match at that point.

So if you start at the top, as in my *last example*, you have to match all
the way down.

By contrast, the *first example* I sent you did NOT match the structure all
the way through - the ASN DS had subfields docGenDate  and thisDocid which
don't appear in your xml file.

So on the first xml-into I used the variable ASN.docGenDate ( which has
FIELD datetimestamp under it ) and pathed to
ASN/thisDocumentGenerationDateTime ( which has the ELEMENT datetimestamp
under it )
Similarly for the second one:

I used variable ASN.thisDocid ( which has FIELD
proprietaryDocumentIdentifier under it ) and pathed to
ASN/thisDocumentIdentifier ( which has ELEMENT
proprietaryDocumentIdentifier under it )

So the second approach you only have to match up the "end points" but it
requires two parses.

But I'm not an expert there might be other ways of doing it, that's just
how I see it.

Another approach - you could pretend you are a COBOL programmer and then
SWMSADVANCESHIPMENTNOTIFICATION.THISDOCUMENTGENERATIONDATETIME.DATETIMESTAMP
will just seem like a short nickname to you

/duck

regards,
Craig

On 23 March 2018 at 16:04, <SCOURTNEY@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all,
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> help from Barbara and Craig much appreciated ..
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> One last question though ..
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> If I use the XML naming then the qualified access to the values can be
> quite
> long ..
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> For example :
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> SWMSADVANCESHIPMENTNOTIFICATION.THISDOCUMENTGENERATIONDATETIME
> .DATETIMESTAMP
> ' '19.03.2018 08:50:55'
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> Is there any simple way of making these notifications available in a
> shorter
> form without having to copy the info into a corresponding DS
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> with shorter names .
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> top.tag.name '19.03.2018 08:50:55'
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> May be a stupid question but I will ask anyway
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> Regards
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> Sean
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