XML and RPG
I do not have the XML toolkit package on my i5 525. We are running V5R4. Is there still a way for me to import XML files and run in RPG ILE? I have a customer that wants to send us orders via email and XML is one of the formats they could provide for us.
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August 18, 2008 2:09 PM
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August 18, 2008 6:32 PM
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Of course you can, but it will be a brute force solution.
Your XML file will (most likely) reside in the IFS so it will simply be a stream file. I hope you have Scott Klements toolbox for IFS manipulation. http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs_ebook/. Without these it is still doable, but the tools again make it easier.
Once you are reading the file it is simply locating the data within the <Tags>data</Tags> groupings.
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You might also want to look at the RPG commands XML-INTO and XML-SAX
As of V5R4, RPG has support for reading XML. There is an XML-INTO operation code, which reads the contents of an XML document directly into an RPG variable, which can be a field, array, data structure, or data structure array. Also, there is an XML-SAX operation.
I haven’t worked with XML as of yet, but these new op-codes sound useful.
Sorry Graybeard, I didn’t see your answer until I had already posted mine.