Re: Re: XML-INTO sample

On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:31 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have seen samples like that, but does this counter tell how many of the count of that element are in the document, or how many were parsed? That is, if I have a 10 element array, and the counter says 10, does that mean that I got all the elements, and it just happened to fill up the array, or does it mean that there are 10 or more elements in the document, and I got as many as I can handle.

It depends I'm afraid. If you said allowextra=yes then a count of (say) 10 would mean _either_ that exactly 10 were retrieved OR that more than 10 were present but it stopped processing when the array was full. If you said allowextra=no then a count of 10 means there were exactly 10 present.

If you truly have a completely arbitrary number of repeating elements then the best way to handle it is using %Handler with XML-INTO.

It also depends a little on what release you are on as to what bells and whistles you can take advantage of.

My partner Susan and I have written a lot of stuff on all of this including the V7 updates.

Here's a couple of references:

V6+ http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/XML-INTO-Revisited/

V6+ http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/New-and-Improved-XML-INTO/

V5R4+ http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/More-on-RPG-s-XML-Support

V5R4+ on %Handler http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/handling-xml-into-problems.html

Hope this helps.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com