RE: XML-INTO - new to this...

Thanks Barbara.

I think I noticed this when I was doing my debugging. I probably had my path option set improperly and so I was getting nothing in my receiver.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 10:58 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: XML-INTO - new to this...

On 2014-03-03 09:45, Wyatt, Chris (FGWA-IL) wrote:

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That is, I thought I had exhausted all permutations of the path, allowextra and allowmissing options along with the construction/naming of the data structure. And I had looked all over Google for examples. Most of the examples I found were using very straightforward XML and therefore, not extremely helpful. Also, the DS situation becomes confusing in a hurry to me.

Hi Chris, about allowmissing, since you're a) on 6.1 and b) new to XML-INTO, I suggest that you pretend that the allowmissing option doesn't exist.

The trouble with allowmissing=yes is that it allows _everything_ to be missing. The countprefix option gives you more control over what you want to allow to be missing. The little bit of extra coding required for countprefix is nothing compared to the hours of hair-tearing debugging that allowmissing=yes can cause.

You can find the documentation for countprefix in the 7.1 ILE RPG Reference http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzasd/sc0925081031.htm#countprefixopt
(the XML-INTO info in the 7.1 reference also applies to 6.1 with PTF SI34938).