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What about xml generation for rpg?

It is on the compiler team's "shopping list" but personally I hope they don't waste time and money on it.

I and many others have been using IBM's free CGIDEV2 for many years - I wrote about it here: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/i5/enewsletterexclusive/13613p1.aspx and others have wrtten articles which Google should be able to find for you. A couple relate to using CGIDEV2 to produce Excel spreadsheets, but the principal is the same.

As Joe noted the COBOL XML generation is very limited and almost invariably requires a transform of the document produced for it to be usable.

I'd rather the compiler folks spend money on things that we can't do for ourselves.

Jon P.

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