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

Chuck Stevens wrote:
> "LX-i" <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote in message
>  news:5a47b$42685456$45491db9$15115@KNOLO
GY.NET...
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> Have you looked at "Native COBOL Syntax for XML Support", a Preliminary
> Draft Technical Report written by Don Schricker and proposed as a follow-o
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> for the 2002 COBOL standard (as well as for later incorporation into the '
08
> standard)?

Yes, I've seen that - looks .  :)
 
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> I'd be interested in your thoughts on how what you're doing would be
> simplified (or made more complicated) if it was done using the syntax in
> Don's PDTR.  Maybe you could lobby the 2200/IX folks, as a customer, that
> this is something customers need, and get compiler support for this stuff
> built in (even on a pre-2002-standard COBOL, as an extension)?

Well, what I've been doing is accruing the XML in a 100,000-character
buffer (the max a single MCB call can take) - then, I send it straight
from TIP to the browser.  It might be made easier, if that file could
somehow be made a stream of text - it would also allow us to get away
from that 100,000-character limit.  (There are some things we'd like to
do, but that limit is too small - of course, documents that get much
bigger than that can take some time to parse on the client...)

I actually did some work with some of the folks in Roseville, and one of
them is the guy who's in charge of the UCS COBOL compiler.  He told me I
could bend his ear one day for a while, so I'm writing down things I
wanted to ask him about.  I'll put this on the list...  :)


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