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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 14, 2020

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Enhanced XMLCHAR builtin function

XMLCHAR can currently produce ebcdic encoded XML documents only. We have the need to generate UTF-8 encoded XML documents from a structure containing UCHAR fields.
The XMLCHAR output encoding could be driven by an extra optional argument (similarly to PLISAXC).
Tags would be generated in the requested encoding, and data would be converted as required.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 2, 2020

    Support for a new XMLUCHAR built-in function. has been delivered via PTFs to the 5.3 compiler and to the run-time. It will be documented when the books are updated.But in short, XMLUCHAR is like XMLCHAR except 1) it fills the buffer with UTF-8 data and 2) the structure may now have UCHAR elements

  • Guest
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    |     Sep 18, 2020

    This capability would be useful

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