Re: [WEB400] XML Documents

["Justin & Michelle Houchin" <jhouchin9@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for the info!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@taylorcorp.com>
To: <web400@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: [WEB400] XML Documents


> Creating XML is easy.  Parsing XML is more difficult, but easier to do if
> you use java vs. RPG in my opinion.  Awhile back I posted an app I wrote
to
> do something almost exactly similar to what you need to do.
>
> Check out this page:
> http://rpgenerationx.com/e-rpg/DSPMSG?forum=cvJava&msgid=0000004
> I used jdom (jdom.org) to parse and build my XML.  In all reality you
don't
> need a parser to build XML.  You could just code stuff like the following:
>
> eval XML = '<xml><PO
> number="12345"><item>hat</item><item>shoes</item></PO></xml>'
>
> and then send that to where ever it needs to go whether it be a response
to
> an HTTP request or if something made a RPC (Remote Program Call) to your
RPG
> program.
>
> Also, check out IBM's alpha works site: http://alphaworks.ibm.com/ which
> will give you a ton of info on XML (more than you want and maybe not
> everything you need).  Basically you just need to dive in head first and
see
> what works best for you.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Aaron Bartell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Houchin [mailto:jhouchin9@charter.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:30 PM
> To: web400@midrange.com
> Subject: [WEB400] XML Documents
>
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> Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating XML Documents. I
> have to create an XML document, send it to ups's server, it will calculate
> the shipping cost, receive the data back on my 400 and write the data back
> to the browser via CGI. I have no clue where to start!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin Houchin
> Programmer
> Reliatek, Inc
> jhouchin9@charter.net
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