COBOL using XML Parser

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:25 am

OK, I looked at an old program I wrote a year and a half ago -- the data does not include any encoding=. So make sure your file is EBCDIC, remove the encoding= from the first line, and run your XMLPARSE again. This should get you past the XML error -- I got XML-CODE=0 by doing so.

If you absolutely have to have the encoding, make sure the file is in EBCDIC, check the compile listing for the CODEPAGE used, and set the encoding to that CODEPAGE -- I thought we used 1047 but found out 1140 is selected by looking at a compile output.

pleonard · New User Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 19

I tried this one too. In my last test I removed the total header from XML file but for both (with header and without encoding=utf-8) I got XML-CODE=-1. I'm not sure which is the encoding made to this file because it is obtained from another program (that generates this XML to me). Maybe this program can be messed up this file I'm not sure. Indeed my program is attempting to process a XML message and their encoding are different between them.