ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide


Processing XML Documents

You can process XML documents from your COBOL program by using the XML PARSE statement. The XML PARSE statement is the COBOL language interface to the high-speed XML parser, which is part of the COBOL run time. Processing an XML document involves control being passed to and received from the XML parser. You start this exchange of control with the XML PARSE statement, which specifies a processing procedure that receives control from the XML parser to handle the parser events. You use special registers in your processing procedure to exchange information with the parser.

Use these COBOL facilities to process XML documents:

related concepts
XML parser in COBOL

related tasks
Accessing XML documents
Parsing XML documents
Processing XML events
Handling errors in XML documents
Understanding XML document encoding

related reference
Appendix F, XML reference material
XML specification (www.w3c.org/XML/)


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