D705: Enterprise COBOL Update II: Unicode and XML Support

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Enterprise COBOL Update II: Unicode and XML Support - Topical Outline

COBOL Support For Unicode
    What Is Unicode?
    Unicode Support in Enterprise COBOL
    When Will You Need To Use Unicode Support?
    Things To Watch Out For
    Computer Exercise: Set Up and Handling Unicode

COBOL Support for XML: The Set Up
    What is XML?
    Processing XML Documents
    Preparing to Use the COBOL XML Parser
    Computer Exercise: Prepare Data for Parsing

COBOL Support for XML: XML PARSE
    The XML PARSE Statement
    The XML Special Registers
    The XML Events
    Coding the Processing Procedure
    Computer Exercise: Basic XML Parsing

COBOL Support for XML: Processing Procedure Considerations
    What To Do In A Processng Procedure
    Extracting Data During Parsing
    Computer Exercise: Extracting Data During Parsing

    Extracting Data During Parsing, continued
    Computer Exercise: Extracting Multiple Data Fields During Parsing

    Extracting Numeric Data During Parsing
    Early Termination of Parse
    Exceptions in Parsing
    Restrictions in Processing Procedures
    Computer Exercise: Extracting Numeric Data During Parsing

COBOL XML Support: The XML GENERATE Statement
    The "Wrapper" paradigm
    The XML GENERATE statement
    XML GENERATE and exceptions
    Computer Exercise: Creating XML Output

Attributes, Namespaces, and Enterprise COBOL V4 Enhancements
    COBOL, XML, and Attributes
    COBOL, XML, and Namespaces
    Enterprise COBOL V4 Enhancements
        Compiler option XMLPARSE
        Namespace support
        Attributes in generation
        Record level processing
        XML header generation
    Computer Exercise: Using Some of the New Features

XMLPARSE(XMLSS) Differences
    Processing Differences for XML PARSE
    XML PARSE migration issues
    Processing Differences for XML GENERATE
    Computer Exercise: Code clean up

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