XML Operations

The XML operations include SAX parsing and reading an XML document directly into a variable.

The XML operations are:

• XML-SAX (Parse an XML Document)
• XML-INTO (Parse an XML Document into a Variable)
• %XML (xmlDocument {:options})
• %HANDLER (handlingProcedure : communicationArea )

The %HANDLER and %XML built-in functions are special built-in functions that do not return a value. They can be used only with the XML operation codes XML-SAX and XML-INTO.

XML-SAX initiates a SAX parse that repeatedly calls your SAX-handling procedure to handle events.

XML-INTO copies the information in an XML document into a program variable.

For XML documents with many repeated XML elements, it can be used to handle a limited number of XML elements at a time, having the elements passed to your XML-INTO handling procedure.

For more information about processing XML documents in your RPG programs, see IBM Rational Development Studio for i: ILE RPG Programmer's Guide.