Comments on: Receiving an XML file to RPG http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-an-xml-file-to-rpg/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: yorkshireman http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-an-xml-file-to-rpg/#comment-58389 yorkshireman Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:40:20 +0000 #comment-58389 BigKat has a good point.

You want to avoid any potential future IPR issues. So, as first suggested, write your own with RPG.

I have a bit of code which handles screens down at the metal level, and if ever I want to handle all 1920 characters individually I know how to do it. Meanwhile though, I’ll just use DDS, or, better, a code generator.

Incidentally, it’s also worth discovering that Bob licences his software, in order to make a living, and Scott Klements’s is already in the public domain – so you will ‘own’ the source code.

If it were me, I’d experiment with the native RPG, then I know which open source software I’d download.

- No affiliation to either of these toolsets -

]]> By: bigkat http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-an-xml-file-to-rpg/#comment-58345 bigkat Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:05:53 +0000 #comment-58345 To Yorkshireman and TopKat:

Why would you want to explore XML-INTO and XML-SAX? Well, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And maybe XML-INTO is a little crude (at this version) but everything starts somewhere… Also, what if there becomes a time that there is an intellectual property issue using Klements tools and you don’t know anything else…

Just trying to say it is always good to know options…

BigKat

]]> By: topkat http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-an-xml-file-to-rpg/#comment-58341 topkat Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:40:18 +0000 #comment-58341 I agree with Yorkshireman. We use Klement’s tools without any problems.

]]> By: yorkshireman http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-an-xml-file-to-rpg/#comment-58315 yorkshireman Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:46:34 +0000 #comment-58315 Exciting though it is to explore RPG’s native opcodes for XML, why would you want to do that.

I admire Bob Cozzi’s stufff greatly, but in this case it’s nowhere near as good as the Freeware HTTP tools originated by Scott Klement.

go here and sign up and check it out.

XML-INTo gives you a knife blade that needs sharpening – HTTP tools gives a Swiss Army knife ready to go (example code for most siutuations) . and the forum gives you the squaddies to ensure support and answers.

Just my opinion, of course.

]]> By: stank http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-an-xml-file-to-rpg/#comment-58308 stank Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:03:39 +0000 #comment-58308 Bob Cozzi just did a Tuesday tip yesterday on the use of XML-INTO. That could be a great place to start.

A web search for Cozzi and Tuesday tips.

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