XML GENERATE TAGS

[luckyboyroh]

Hi ,

My requirement is need to append XML tags and then send data.

I have defined a copybook with required field tags. I use XML GENERATE to generate the tags in xml format in cobol (i.e) this will append start and end tags as per copybook defined variable.

for example
Copybook field name :side
Output after using XML generate: <side>2</side>

But, for few field, i dont want the same start tag to be appended at end.

like,
currently using the above mentioned logic fileds are populated as below,

<reference-id1-type>ABCD</reference-id1-type>
<reference-id1>123456</reference-id1>
<reference-id2-type>EFGH</reference-id2-type>
<reference-id2>12345677</reference-id2>
<reference-id3-type>IJKL</reference-id3-type>
<reference-id3>12345667</reference-id3>
<reference-id4-type>MNOP</reference-id4-type>
<reference-id4>1111111</reference-id4>
<reference-id5-type>RSTU</reference-id5-type>
<reference-id5>1234455678</reference-id5>

but i want it to be populated in below way.....

<referenceIDGroup>
<referenceID referenceIDType="ABCD">123456</referenceID>
<referenceID referenceIDType="EFGH">12345677</referenceID>
<referenceID referenceIDType="IJKL">12345667</referenceID>
<referenceID referenceIDType="MNOP">1111111</referenceID>
<referenceID referenceIDType="RSTU">1234455678</referenceID>
</referenceIDGroup>

is there any way to populate it this way? pls let me know your suggestions.

Thanks

[enrico-sorichetti]

pls let me know your suggestions.

start posting to the right forum section COBOL in this case

[BillyBoyo]

Your topic will be moved to the Cobol part of the forum once you reply.

Why do you want to do that? Can something which "understands" XML still read a file like that?

[luckyboyroh]

Sorry fir posting in wrong section. Pls move .

i guess it will understand. Even i am not sure abt that.

[BillyBoyo]

Well, "guessing" isn't much use with computers. If you "guess" you can waste a lot of effort only to discover that what you have achieved is pointless.

Paste your example into something which can "understand" XML and see if you get what you expect.

[Ed Goodman]

Part of the XML GENERATE statement is the 'WITH ATTRIBUTES' parm. It MIGHT do what you need. You would certainly need to change the copybook though.

One link I found showed a work-around that used a table with one occurrence along with 'WITH ATTRIBUTE' to get the desired results.