If your using C#.NET and RPG wouldn't it be a good idea to parse inbound XML
data using C#.NET and pop it into a DB2/400 table and then use RPG for easy
onward processing (and vice versa in reverse for outbound XML data)?
Best of both worlds maybe...
Maurice O'Prey
XMLi5
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Sent: 01 December 2009 5:58 PM
To: .net use with the System i
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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