Re: COBOL and XML (was Re: OT - "lie" vs "error")

> users put enough "pressure" on their
> vendors to spend significant resources on developing (and already)
delivering
> "native language support" for XML in COBOL.

I can understand why that is.  In many cases the interchange of data is
being done via commercial EDIFACT translators or similar mechanisms
which are hugely complex and expensive.  They probably think that
having XML as part of the language will solve all the problems, and get
rid of much expense.