There are a number of ways for you to utilize COBOL and XML together in
Enterprise Developer:
XML Extensions
Use XML Extensions to import and export XML documents to and from COBOL working storage. XML Extensions also has support for XSLT stylesheets, allowing you to apply XSLT transformations to the XML document during import, export, or a transformation from one XML document to another. Further support is provided for testing whether a document is well-formed (syntactically correct) or valid with respect to a provided schema document.
XML Syntax Extensions
Use XML Syntax Extensions to import and export XML documents to and from COBOL working storage.