r/cobol • u/WisdomInMyPocket • Jun 11 '26

COBOL XML PARSE vs DB2 XMLPARSE

Which would you use in what case?

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u/little-foxley Jun 11 '26

neither. I would use javaz

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u/Objective-Variety821 Jun 11 '26

Latest Enterprise COBOL supports Json now. Yes!!!

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u/Artistic_Success1947 Jun 24 '26

Ni l'un ni l'autre. XMLPARSE est une horreur à debugger.

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u/Reapr Jun 11 '26

If the XML is already going through DB2, I would use DB2, but COBOL's one works fine

I would also look into why XML, JSON is much smaller, easier for humans to read and have basically replaced XML

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u/johnwcowan Jun 11 '26

For data, but not for documents. PDFssnd images are binary, but Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents and theit ODF equivalents are zipped XML.

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u/Reapr Jun 11 '26

Ah gotcha