On Sun, 7 May 2006 22:03:23 -0700, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello.
If I understand you correctly, I'll answer as best as I can.
We have used no XML utilities to produce the new XML files.
Someone here laboriously added the tags to the existing Cobol program that
originally wrote the flat files to produce XML files instead.
So, for each field, he added the tags before and after etc.
We later learned that there was this wonderful XML GENERATE statement but he
still won't use it.
In addition to the Schema files, we also received specifications on what was
expected in the files.
So, we have no XML utilities or if we have any, we're not using them.
Our clients parse the files on PC's and as far as I know, that's where they
manage their data.
I'd really like to do as much work on the mainframe as possible, but that
may not happen.
I'm sure there's better solutions to what we are doing, but we have limited
resources and fewer and fewer people. Everything's frozen here.
Thanks for replying. Let me know if I misunderstood you.
Regards,
Eric Verwijs
Programmer Analyst
OAS Mission Critical Systems
>OK, I have to ask the obvious: have you looked at the XML formerly
>delivered as 'ported tools', now supported as regular product? Maybe you
>need something in addition to that XML...
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