Re: Processing a received XML document - support for XSD?

["Loek Maartens" <l.maartens@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

The XML toolkit from IBM is provided free of cost.

The ionly problem is understanding the examples provided by IBM, they are 
worth ... (not a lot).

Kind regards,

Loek.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Raddatz" <thomas.raddatz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects" <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Processing a received XML document - support for XSD?


> Charles,
>
> In case no one else contributes a better idea you may consider to use a 
> little Java application to
> validate your xml file. "AppServer4RPG" might be a good starting point as 
> it demonstrates how to talk
> to Java from RPG efficiently.
>
> You can get it here:
>
>    http://www.bender-dv.de/ (German page hosted by Dieter Bender)
>
> On the main page click on "AppServer4RPG" and download the zip file. The 
> zip file contains an English
> "Howto.html" which explains how to set up the server.
>
> For example you could pass the path name of your XML file to a little Java 
> application that validtaed
> the XML file and returns the result back to the RPG application.
>
> Another option you have is to install the "XML Toolkit for IBM System i5" 
> (5733-XT2) and use the
> included parsers (SAX and DOM parser). For sure that should cost some 
> money and is not easy to use
> because of lots of pointer stuff. Just my two cents.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas.
>
>
>
> Charles Wilt schrieb:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm going to be receiving an XML document that I'll need to process.
>>
>> I had originally intended to make use of Scott port of Expat to parse
>> the document.
>>
>> However, apparently Expat doesn't support validating the document
>> against an XML Schema Document (XSD).  Given that we're creating the
>> XSD, and a third party is supposed to be following it, having the XML
>> processor validate against the XSD instead of doing my own validation
>> in RPG would seem like a useful feature.
>>
>> Is there anything on the i that I can use to validate and process the 
>> XML?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charles Wilt
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