Day One

COBOL Support For Unicode

• What Is Unicode?
• Unicode Support in Enterprise COBOL
• When Will You Need To Use Unicode Support?
• Things To Watch Out For
• Computer Exercise: Set Up and Handling Unicode

COBOL Support for XML: The Set Up

• What is XML?
• Processing XML Documents
• Preparing to Use the COBOL XML Parser
• Computer Exercise: Prepare Data for Parsing

COBOL Support for XML: XML PARSE

• The XML PARSE Statement
• The XML Special Registers
• The XML Events
• Coding the Processing Procedure
• Computer Exercise: Basic XML Parsing

COBOL Support for XML: Processing Procedure Considerations

• What To Do In A Processing Procedure
• Extracting Data During Parsing
• Computer Exercise: Extracting Data During Parsing

• Extracting Data During Parsing, continued
• Computer Exercise: Extracting Multiple Data Fields During Parsing

• Extracting Numeric Data During Parsing
• Early Termination of Parse
• Exceptions in Parsing
• Restrictions in Processing Procedures
• Computer Exercise: Extracting Numeric Data During Parsing

Day Two

Parsing Pure Passed XML

COBOL XML Support: The XML GENERATE Statement

The “Wrapper” paradigm, The XML GENERATE statement, XML GENERATE and exceptions, Computer Exercise: Creating XML Output

Attributes, Namespaces, and Enterprise COBOL V4 Enhancements

• COBOL, XML, and Attributes
• COBOL, XML, and Namespaces
• Enterprise COBOL V4 Enhancements
  • Compiler option XMLPARSE
  • Namespace support
  • Attributes in generation
  • Record level processing
  • XML header generation
• Computer Exercise: Using Some of the New Features

XMLPARSE(XMLSS) Differences

• Processing Differences for XML PARSE
• XML PARSE migration issues
• Processing Differences for XML GENERATE
• Computer Exercise: Code clean up

Enterprise COBOL V4R2 Enhancements

• Introduction to XML Schemas
• Preparing XML schemas for PARSE
• XML PARSE … VALIDATING
• Computer Exercise: Schemas and Validation