There are a number of ways for you to utilize COBOL and XML together in
Visual COBOL:
XML Extensions Use XML Extensions to import and export XML documents to and from COBOL working storage. XML Extensions also has support
for XSLT stylesheets, allowing you to apply XSLT transformations to the XML document during import, export, or a transformation
from one XML document to another. Further support is provided for testing whether a document is well-formed (syntactically
correct) or valid with respect to a provided schema document.
XML Syntax Extensions Use XML Syntax Extensions to import and export XML documents to and from COBOL working storage.