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shakila25
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Hi All,

How to create an XML using webfocus DEv studio.

For ex:

CARFILE
cdetail
country England country
car BMW car
cdetail
cdetail
country W Germany country
car AUDI car
cdetail

CARFILE


Thanks in advance.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,


WebFOCUS 7.6.x
Windows
Output: Excel,PDF, HTML
 
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GamP
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I do not think that there is something like that available in webfocus.
You'll have to do this 'yourself', meaning you'll need to create defines and/or computes to provide the tags at the desired places and output the result as an alpha hold file.
The HOLD FORMAT XML that webfocus provides sort of holds it according to the needs of webfocus itself, which is not neccessarily xml-standard.


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dhagen
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What is the purpose of the XML file?


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shakila25
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To generate an xml in webfocus and save it as word document.


WebFOCUS 7.6.x
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Output: Excel,PDF, HTML
 
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<JG>
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Word definately will not read a WebFOCUS XML or XMLR (extended XML that contains a complete report not just the data).

Any reason why you specifically want to use XML?

Would format DOC not give you what you want? It will open directly in word.

Unfortunately no styling is possible but that would be true with XML as well
unless you incorporate all the styling that word requires which would be extremely
difficult to do.
 
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dhagen
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quote:
Originally posted by shakila25:
To generate an xml in webfocus and save it as word document.


I was hoping for a little more info. Are you looking to hold the file to the server disk, as in "ON TABLE HOLD", or, are you looking for the users to request the report - like 95% of WebFOCUS requests - and have it open in MS WORD? Or is it something else entirely?


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blaiss
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I created a quick-and-dirty solution to address a similar need.
I 'generate' the XML in HTML, open it in a browser, then copy and paste the output into a text document.
It's not sexy but it works for us. I'm sure you could play with this and get it to format correctly for your output needs.

-SET &NBSP = '&'||'nbsp;';
-SET &TAB5 = &NBSP||&NBSP||&NBSP||&NBSP||&NBSP;
-SET &TAB4 = &NBSP||&NBSP||&NBSP||&NBSP;
DEFINE FILE CAR
	 LTN/A1 = HEXBYT(60,'A1');
	 XMLHDR/A40 = '?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
	 CMDS_O/A20 = 'CARFILE>';
	 CMDS_C/A11 = '/CARFILE>';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
	 COMPUTE DETAILTAG/A80 = 'cdetail>'; NOPRINT
	 COMPUTE COUNTRYTAG/A80 = 'country>'||COUNTRY||'&|lt/country>'; NOPRINT
	 COMPUTE CARTAG/A80 = 'car>'||CAR||'&|lt/car>'; NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
ON TABLE SUBHEAD
"&|lt<XMLHDR"
"&TAB5&|lt<CMDS_O"
ON COUNTRY SUBHEAD
"&TAB5&TAB5&|lt<DETAILTAG"
"&TAB5&TAB5&TAB5&|lt<COUNTRYTAG"
"&TAB5&TAB5&TAB5&|lt<CARTAG"
"&TAB5&TAB5&|lt/cdetail>"
ON TABLE SUBFOOT
"&TAB5&|lt<CMDS_C"
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOPAGE
ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END


7.6.11, Windows
HTML, PDF, EXL2K
 
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Waz
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I still don't think a good answer can be given, until we know what the requirements are ?

For xample, I've got a generic module that will create an ADO format XML document off and file that WF can read, but is it what is needed ?


Waz...

Prod:WebFOCUS 7.6.10/8.1.04Upgrade:WebFOCUS 8.2.07OS:LinuxOutputs:HTML, PDF, Excel, PPT
In Focus since 1984
Pity the lost knowledge of an old programmer!

 
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shakila25
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hI aLL,

SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY.

IF I VIEW THE SOURCE AND SAVE AS XML.
IF I RUN THE XML FILE AM GETTING THE BELOW ERORR.

----ERROR:-----

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

End tag 'HEAD' does not match the start tag 'BASE'. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents and Settings/SAslam/Des...


--^

THANKS IN ADVANCE.


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