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XML IMPORT TEXT

This statement has the following parameters:

Parameter	Description
DataItem	The name of the COBOL data item that is to receive the imported data.
DocumentPointer	The name of a COBOL pointer data item that points to an XML document that is stored in memory as a text string.
DocumentLength	The name of a COBOL numeric data item that contains the length of the XML document pointed to by DocumentPointer.
ModelFileName#DataFileName	This parameter may be either of the following: The name of the data structure. If the # (hash) character is missing, it is assumed that the hash character was intended to be placed at the beginning of the parameter (as the specified name is a data item name). Previously, it was assumed that the # character was placed at the end of the parameter (as the specified name was a filename. Everything to the left of the "#" character is the filename. Everything to the right is the data structure name. Either component is optional; that is, model names of "file#", "file", "#data", "#" and "" are allowed. If the filename is omitted and a default has not been provided from the XML COBOL FILE-NAME statement, then the current program is assumed. If the data name is not found, then calling programs are used (in order of the call stack). If the data name is omitted, then the entire program is used. If a hash "#" character is missing from the ModelFileName parameter, one will be assumed to be present at the beginning (the ModelFileName is assumed to be a data name). Furthermore, a hierarchical specification of data names may be used; that is, "file#a//b//c" is valid. It has the same meaning as the COBOL specification of "C of B of A". Either data names or program names may be specified in the data name hierarchy; that is, A and B could be the names of programs, assuming B is a program contained in A. The name of the set of XML files produced by the XMLGEN compiler directive that describe the COBOL data item. For more information, see Model Files.
[StyleSheetName]	Optional. The name of an external XSLT stylesheet that will be used to transform the imported XML document before it is stored in the data item.

Description

The XML IMPORT TEXT statement imports the content of the text string indicated by the DocumentPointer and DocumentLength parameters. If the optional StyleSheetName parameter is present, the external XSLT stylesheet is used to transform the document before being converted to COBOL data format. The content of the XML document is converted to COBOL format using the file specified by the ModelFileName#DataFileName parameter, and then is stored in the data item specified by the DataItem parameter.

A status value is returned in the data item XML-data-group, which is defined in the copybook, lixmldef.cpy.

Examples

Without an External XSLT Stylesheet:

XML IMPORT TEXT
    MY-DATA-ITEM
    MY-DOCUMENT-POINTER
    MY-DOCUMENT-LENGTH
    "MY-MODEL-FILE".
IF NOT XML-OK GO TO Z.

With an External XSLT Stylesheet:

XML IMPORT TEXT
    MY-DATA-ITEM
    MY-DOCUMENT-POINTER
    MY-DOCUMENT-LENGTH
    "MY-MODEL-FILE"
    "MY-STYLE-SHEET" 
IF NOT XML-OK GO TO Z.

With an External XSLT Stylesheet and Parameters:

XML SET XSL-PARAMETERS
     "MY-COUNT", 7.
IF NOT XML-OK GO TO Z.
XML IMPORT TEXT
    MY-DATA-ITEM
    "MY-DOCUMENT.XML"
    "MY-MODEL-FILE"
    "MY-STYLE-SHEET"
IF NOT XML-OK GO TO Z.