Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 2 for Eclipse (Windows) > Programming > COBOL Programming > Using COBOL and XML together > XML Syntax Extensions > Syntax for Handling XML in COBOL > PROCESSING-INSTRUCTION Clause

PROCESSING-INSTRUCTION Clause

The PROCESSING-INSTRUCTION clause is provided simply to allow XML processing instructions to be embedded directly within the data associated with a tag. For example, the following code:

    01  my-tag    identified by "my_tag".
        05  my-tag-data1    pic x(80).
        05  my-tag-pi       pic x(80) 
            IS PROCESSING-INSTRUCTION.
        05  my-tag-data2    pic x(80).
    ...
        move 'data' to my-tag-data1 my-tag-data2
        move 'somepi' to my-tag-pi
        write my-tag

Would yield:

    <my_tag>data<?somepi?>data</my_tag>