XML and COBOL

[Steven Marcus]

If you are running a relatively recent release of OS/390 (not
MVS) you can use an XML parser written in Java. IBM's java
parser is available at alphaworks.ibm.com and supports
EBCDIC<->Unicode conversions.

You can integrate your COBOL and Java environments thru the file
system bridge available with java-OS/390, or via DB/2. There may
be other ways of passing data between Java apps and COBOL but
someone else will have to speak up.

[Also, I have been told that OS/390 should support IBM's C++ XML
parser if you install the UNIX-compatibility services.]

Good luck!
Steven Marcus
Aware Technologies, Inc.

--- Ken North <ken_north at csi.com> wrote:
> << I have the need to implement COBOL applications on a IBM
> mainframe
> computer that will be responsible for parsing and creating XML
> documents. Can anyone point me toward a good tool that could
> be called
> from within a COBOL application to parse / create XML. The
> mainframe
> environment is CICS, OS/MVS. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
> 
> John,
> 
> I know there has been a lot of talk about Object COBOL, but I
> don't know
> if anyone is shipping a product. The problem is that
> traditional COBOL
> does not do string processing very well so it will be a
> challenge to
> write a parser in COBOL. You should probably investigate
> COBOL-callable
> libraries written in C or assembly language.
> 
> 
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