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gweller
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I have a report that I am returning to an HTML page via an XML call. I have several database values that have a É character. I have quickly found that the XML request will not return this value and have tried to use the STRREP function to change this to a É with no luck...

Any pointers on how I can transform this?

This is what I have tried...

STRREP(78,FULLNAME,1,'É',8,'&|Eacute;',78,FULLNAME_2);

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Tony A
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I think that you have to use the Unicode character in XML rather than the special construct of É, but what are you doing with the XML upon receipt? Are you processing it via a XSL etc.? If so, I'm not sure how you progress.

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gweller
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Here is my solution...

STRREP(90, STRREP(78,FULLNAME,1, HEXBYT (201,'A1'), 8,'&|eacute;',78,'A78') ,1, HEXBYT (200,'A1'), 8,'&|egrave;',90,'A90');


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Update on this,

I went into my DEFINE FUNCTION that handles this functionality to add another translation. I added the following

VAL3/A256 = STRREP(256,VAL2,1, HEXBYT(39,'A1'), 6,'&|apos;',256,'A256');

Converting an apostraphe to ' to allow for the proper display of data to XML.

After running my code at closer inspection somewhere along the way my ' turned into 

 & amp ; apos ;

ampersand_amp_semicolon_apos_semicolon (damn you html)

which of course is not correct. It seems as though the returned data only occurs when outputting to XML format.

Does anyone know how to correct this? I am afraid that any portion of my function that is using this same technique is also now extinct.

Thanks


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Dan Satchell
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I doubt this is the problem - just a recommendation. I noticed in both your examples that you are replacing a single character with multiple characters, but using the same length for both input and output fields. Make sure you have sufficient space in your output field to handle the extra characters. This may not be much of a problem if you have only one occurrence of the single character in the input field. But if you have several, you could be replacing a few single characters with dozens of extra characters.

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