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Displaying status information

The copybook, lixmldsp.cpy, is provided as an aid in retrieving and presenting status information. This copybook defines the Display-Status paragraph and contains the following text:

Display-Status.
 If Not XML-IsSuccess
 Perform With Test After Until XML-NoMore
 XML GET STATUS-TEXT
 Display XML-StatusText
 End-Perform
 End-If.

The DISPLAY statement, Display XML-StatusText, displays status information on the terminal display. You may edit this statement, as necessary, for your application. For example, the definition of the XML-StatusText field in the lixmldef.cpy copybook may be altered from the default of 80 to change the size of the buffer used to contain XML status information.

While this logic is normally used in the application termination logic, it may be used at any time in the program flow. For example:

XML TRANSFORM FILE "A" "B" "C".
 Perform Display-Status.