Before you build your XML-enabled COBOL, you must insert the following code on the first line of your program before the Identification Division:
$set {preprocess | p}(prexml) [{out | o} (outname)] [warn]
[{preprocess | p} (ppname)] endp
where the parameters are:
- {preprocess | p}
- The pre-processor to be used.
- {out | o}
outname
- The fully preprocessed output source file,
outname. This output source file contains native COBOL processed from the XML syntax.
- warn
- Cause diagnostic warnings on parsing to be presented by PREXML.
-
ppname
- The preprocessor name you want to use to read source files and process COPY statements. Preprocessors can be nested.
For example:
