(not pretending to be an XML expert, but who cares? ;-)

>- is it possible to generate/process XML on HP3000??

Generating XML output should be fairly easy with all the
programming languages or reporting tools. It's basically
adding the markup tags similar to...

  01  some-rec.
    05  first-name  pic x(40).
    05  last-name   pix x(40).
  ...

  display "<person>"
  display "<firstname>" first-name "</firstname>"
  display "<lastname>"  last-name  "</lastname>"
  display "</person>


Parsing XML might be a little bit more difficult, depending
on the programming language used. With Java, for example, you
could use one of the available parsers without porting-effort.
I once used a couple of Xerces/J examples from xml.apache.org
on MPE/iX, but there are also XML tools on the IBM alphaworks
or the SUN Java web sites, as far as I recall.

To integrate with existing "legacy" languages, I would probably
try running the Java XML parser in a separate process or server
job and having it output results in a file format convenient for
use by the "legacy" program.

Lars.

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