XML grammar

The RACF® SMF data unload utility can generate an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document that contains the SMF data. The names of the tags and the syntax of the values are defined in an XML schema document, which is used to validate the data that is contained in an instance document. The RACF schema document is provided by IBM in SYS1.SAMPLIB, in member IRRSCHEM.

In general, the RACF XML tag names are derived from the field names in the tabular output and the field values are not altered. Therefore, if you use this output, be aware that fields such as logstr, workattr, name, and others, can be set by any user. If so, the fields are passed unaltered into the XML output. For example, if the XML output includes HTML tags and the output is saved unprocessed in an HTML file, those HTML tags are processed as-is and might generate unexpected results.