Re: So let me get this straight.... (XML in RPG)

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evan Harris wrote:
> That's true as far as it goes but then when some "real" XML arrives - and
> eventually it will - then a full XML parser will be called for.

Not if the XML is coming from a known source, with known parameters.

Despite my insistence that XML was the wrong tool for a scripting 
language, I was overridden on that point, and had to write a compiler to 
convert the XML-based scripting language into something simple enough to 
execute in a trigger.

And likewise, when you're getting a response back from a web service, 
giving an indication of whether or not the call was successful, that's 
also going to be within very narrow parameters.

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JHHL