Title: Do I need XML parser ?




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Hello,


 As I am new to this XML business so I got a basic and simple question.


Here it goes...


I have one cobol data file (in ASCII format) and one cobol record description file to describe the position/length of each field of data file.

I want to generate one XML file out of that cobol data file. My question is 


1) Do I need any XML parser to just generate one XML file from a data file ? Or a simple programming logic can create the XML file ?

2) While environment/programming language would be best in this scenario ?


        a) program written in cobol on Mainframe ?


        b) to transfer the datafile to a Unix m/c and the generate the XML file in C language ?


        c) to transfer the datafile to a Unix m/c and the generate the XML file using shell script ?


Any quick help would be highly appreciated !


Thanks in advance,


Regards


Rabindra Nath Saha



 
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