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Data item for example 4

The content of the COBOL data item is as follows:

01 Data-Table.
 02 Value "[".
 02 Table-1 Occurs 6.
 03 X Pic X.
 03 N Pic 9.
 02 Value "]".

This data item contains an array with six occurrences. Each occurrence consists of a one-character, nonnumeric data item followed by a one-digit numeric data item. Note that the structure also contains two FILLER data items: the left brace ([) character at the beginning and the right brace(]) character at the end. The values of the FILLER data items are output as text in the XML document without associated tags.