RE: Parse XML to a Physical File

["Zachary Johnson" <ZJohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess my understanding was that one would want to read the xml
directly vs. putting it in fixed format.  And I would like to say again,
at this point I know nothing about xml...yet.

~Zach

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:54 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Parse XML to a Physical File

Zachary Johnson wrote:
> I'm looking for the easiest way to parse one XML file to multiple
> physical files using V5R3.  I realize that this kind of defeats the
> purpose of using XML but this is the way it's going to be for now.


I really don't understand where you're coming from.  Why would it 
"defeat the purpose" of XML?

Perhaps there's an application-specific instance where mapping XML to 
multiple PFs would be a bad thing, but, speaking in general, it 
certainly doesn't defeat the purpose.  XML is intended to be a format 
for data interchange that's easily supported by all applications on all 
platforms.  How you use that data once you've extracted it from the 
interchange format is entirely up to you!

Given the recursive/nested nature of XML, I would expect that multiple 
physical files would be the normal procedure in any business.