Guru: An Introduction to Processing XML With RPG, Part 2

August 29, 2018 Jon Paris

In the first part of this series for Guru Classic, I introduced you to the basics of using RPG’s XML-INTO op-code. In that tip I showed how the provision of a count provided by RPG in the PSDS can be used to determine how many of a repeating element were processed.

However, as I noted at the time, this can only be used when handling a repeating outer element. But what if there is a repeating element within each of those outer elements? In this second part of the series we will be studying how to handle those situations. …