Re: Passing XML back and forth with RPG and .NET

Why do you need XML ?

If you're calling RPG you can pass parameters.

If you need a recordset you can read a table directly or generate a temp
file and read those results.

XML isn't really needed unless you're doing a web service in which case
you're either reading a recordset or calling a program.

Maybe a little more background on what you're hoping to accomplish would
help.

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message: 1
date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:58:22 -0600
from: Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: [SystemiDotNet] Passing XML back and forth with RPG and .NET

I am at a loss here of a best-practice to pass XML back and forth with
RPG
and C#.NET. Originally, I was going to use a temp physical file in
QTEMP,
but it seems to be that there should be a better way. The temp file has
one
line of the document in one record of the file. To me this seems to add
a
lot of extra work that really shouldn't be needed. I am looking for a
two-way communication.

One thought is to pass a 32000 char parameter back and forth, but is
that
really a good idea? What happens if the document happens to be bigger
than
that? I don't think I would hit that limit so maybe I would be fine?

What about creating a temp IFS file? That seems like more work than is
needed as well.

What are your thoughts?

Obviously, both the RPG and C# programs will be reading and processing
the
XML document.

I may x-post this on RPG-L as well.

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