XMLPARSE

Default is: XMLSS

Abbreviations are: XP(X | C)

If you specify the XMLPARSE(XMLSS) option, XML PARSE statements are processed using the z/OS® XML System Services parser. The following XML parsing capabilities are available only if you specify XMLPARSE(XMLSS):

• Validation of XML input documents against an XML schema (by using the VALIDATING phrase of the XML PARSE statement)
• Enhanced namespace processing (special registers XML-NAMESPACE, XML-NNAMESPACE, XML-NAMESPACE-PREFIX, and XML-NNAMESPACE-PREFIX)
• Automatic conversion of document fragments to Unicode UTF-16 (by using the RETURNING NATIONAL phrase of the XML PARSE statement)
• Specification of the encoding of the input document (by using the ENCODING phrase of the XML PARSE statement)
• Direct parsing of XML documents encoded in UTF-8
• Parsing of XML documents, a buffer of XML at a time
• Offloading of XML parsing to System z® Application Assist Processors (zAAPs)

If you specify the XMLPARSE(COMPAT) option, XML PARSE statements are processed using the XML parser that is a built-in component of the COBOL library. The XML PARSE statement results and operational behaviors are then compatible with those obtained with Enterprise COBOL Version 3, and also with Version 4 when XMLPARSE(COMPAT) was used, and the advanced features described above for XMLPARSE(XMLSS) are not available.