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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


Accessing XML documents

Before you can parse an XML document with an XML PARSE statement, you must make the document available to your program. Common methods of acquiring the document are from a parameter to your program or from a file.

If the XML document that you want to parse is held in a file, use ordinary COBOL facilities to place the document into a data item in your program:


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