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Tuesday, 12 June 2007
XML on VMS, round 2
The client who wanted us to take in an XML file and use it in our application has now asked if we can format one of our outputs in XML. It sounds simple enough; I just have to take the RMS record, interpret it using the CDD record definition, and output the field values surrounded by XML tags. Which of course means formatting each field as a text string, and deciding how many decimal places they'll need, and making sure I consistently round the values.
The original file is from an old Cobol application. The records use the
REDEFINES and OCCURS DEPENDING ON clauses. Ugh.
I guess I'll just output all instances of redefined fields, and for the
array elements, I'll have to add a tag with the array index.
It's too bad Datatrieve doesn't know how to output XML from the Report
Writer. That would make my life a lot easier!
Posted at 14:48 by Chris Wysocki
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