You can parse XML documents that are encoded in code pages other than the explicitly supported single-byte code pages by converting them to Unicode UCS-2 in a national data item, using the MOVE statement. You can then convert the individual pieces of document text passed to your processing procedure in special register XML-NTEXT back to the original code page as necessary, using the MOVE statement.
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Coded character sets for XML documents (ILE COBOL Language
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