XML Support

Enhancements have been made to XML Parse/Generate to provide compatibility with IBM® Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® v4.2.

New in XMLGENERATE:

• ATTRIBUTES phrase
• NAMESPACE and NAMESPACE-PREFIX phrases
• XML-DECLARATION phrase

New in XMLPARSE:

There are now two modes of XMLPARSE support using the XMLPARSE() compiler directive:

• XMLPARSE(COMPAT) – provides compatibility with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v4.1 and earlier.
• XMLPARSE(XMLSS) – provides compatibility with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v4.2.

XMLPARSE(XMLSS) provides:

• ENCODING phrase
• RETURNING NATIONAL phrase
• VALIDATING phrase
• New special registers - XML-NAMESPACE, XML-NNAMESPACE, XML-NAMEPSACE-PREFIX and XML-NNAMESPACE-PREFIX.
• New behaviors – for example, different return codes, different output registers depending on the EVENT.

Note: The ability to parse XML documents one segment at a time with the help of the END-OF-INPUT XML event is not supported yet.