Mainframe (COBOL) parsers for XML documents

[Yordaman]

I have a need to process XML documents as input messages to mainframe components. The XML documents will be varied in type. I was hoping to find a generic mainframe-compliant parser routine that could be used to process such messages, enabling the program to convert XML to fixed format, and then passing on to the rest of the COBOL system.
Such parsers seem to be hard to find. 'Generating' products aren't favoured because they tend to create a component per XML document, and we'd need hundreds.
IS there such a thing as a generic and easily-used XML parser, preferably built in COBOL?

 

[chiph]

There is a redbook on this:

http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Red...7ddfc1f76ccdc3a585256a4500573944?OpenDocument

Chip H.

 

[Yordaman]

Chip H,

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately we haven't switched to the latest COBOL compilers yet, so we cannot make use of the latest features offered in LE, etc. Hence our quest to find alternatives.

 

[Breakspear]

Hello Yordaman,

I know it's been several months since you posted this question but I just thought I'd let you know that the web site

http://www.redversconsulting.co.uk

seems to have exactly what you've asked for.

Breakspear

 

[Yordaman]

Breakspear,

Thanks - by strange coincidence we have already found these guys and have been evaluating some of their products. You're right that this is just about the sort of thing we need, and the lack of other responses backs up my feeling that there's not much else out there.

Thanks again,

Yordaman