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Title: Do I need XML parser ?
In many cases it's easy enough to generate XML just by
writing it out directly as a print file. You can do this in any programming
language. The only things you need to be a little careful about
are:
(a) the character encoding of the text file that you write
must be correctly described in the XML declaration at the head of the
file
(b) special characters such as <, >, and & (and
quotes in attribute values) need to be escaped using sequences such as
<
(c) some control characters are not permitted, and others
such as newline may need to be escaped if you need to preserve them
as-is.
If you're starting with a COBOL file on a mainframe this is
probably the simplest approach. With an XML-aware language such as Java you have
rather more choices; my own preference is usually to write "events" such as
startElement, endElement etc to a SAX serializer.
An XML parser is needed only by an application that
reads XML, not one that writes XML.
Michael Kay
Hello,
As I am new to this XML business so I
got a basic and simple question.
Here it goes...
I have one cobol data file (in ASCII format) and one cobol
record description file to describe the position/length of each field of data
file.
I want to generate one XML file
out of that cobol data file. My question is
1) Do I need any XML parser to just generate one XML file
from a data file ? Or a simple programming
logic can create the XML file ?
2) While environment/programming
language would be best in this scenario ?
a) program written in cobol on Mainframe ?
b) to transfer the datafile to a Unix m/c and the generate the XML file
in C language ?
c) to transfer the datafile to a Unix m/c and the generate the XML file
using shell script ?
Any quick help would be highly
appreciated !
Thanks in advance,
Regards
Rabindra Nath Saha
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