Work with XML Cross References allows you to import an existing XML file. An XML Cross Reference will be generated for each element in your XML. Once the Cross References have been generated you can then decide which of the entries you wish to print along with other details that will help when creating a Cobwebb Design to process the printed XML. This can be found from the Cobwebb Main Menu - PPD File Maintenance - Option 13. Requires Cobwebb Server version 6.2.82 or above and IBM i OS V6R1M0 or above.

Say you have incoming XML that you wish to process and turn into a document to Print, send out as an Email or File in your Document Archiving system. You can drop the XML into a folder which will be monitored using a Cobwebb Folder Monitor configured to use the Extract XML to Spool Folder Monitor program FMXML2SPL. This will print the XML, using the configured Cross References, to an Output Queue of your choice, which in turn will be monitored by a Spooled File Monitor using your Cobwebb Design.

Position to

Enter one or more characters of the File ID from which to start the display.

Options

Select one of the following options:

Entries

File ID

Specify a unique name (File ID) for your XML Cross Reference file entry.

Description

Enter a description for your XML Cross Reference file entry. Note: This is not displayed if you have pressed F14=Show File Path.

File Path

The path to the XML file that you wish to Cross Reference. Note: This is only displayed if you have pressed F14=Show File Path.

Seq No Len

This is the length of the sequence number that you wish to be used when generating the Cross References for your XML. The default is 3 which will result in Cross References of XML_nnn where nnn is an incrementing number from 001 - 999. Should you  have move than 999 elements in your XML then you may need to increase this to a maximum of 5 i.e. XML_nnnnn.

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