Missing intermediate parent names

A capability for handling missing intermediate parent names has been included to make programs that deal with "flattened" data items, such as Web services, less complicated.

Sometimes it is possible for XML Extensions to reconstruct missing intermediate parent names in a COBOL data structure. These missing names may be generated in either of two ways:

• Unique Element Names. Use this technique to determine whether the element name is unique.
• Unique Identifier. Use this method to determine whether the unique identifier (uid) attributes of the element name are provided. If this is true, then the intermediate parent names may also be generated.