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XML PUT TEXT

This statement has the following parameters:

Parameter	Description
DocumentPointer	The COBOL pointer data item that points to the in-memory text.
DocumentLength	The name of a COBOL numeric data item that contains the length of the XML document pointed to by DocumentPointer.
DocumentName	The filename that will contain the XML document upon successful completion of the statement.

Description

The XML PUT TEXT statement copies the content of the in-memory XML document specified by the DocumentPointer and DocumentLength parameters to the external file specified by the DocumentName parameter. A status value is returned in the XML-data-group data item, which is defined in the copybook, lixmldef.cpy.

Example

XML PUT TEXT
    MY-POINTER
    MY-LENGTH
    "MY-DOCUMENT".
IF NOT XML-OK GO TO Z.