ACTIVATE WORKSHOP

Doing more with XMLstreams

You can save XML streams to a file using xmlsave
You can transport the XML file Uniface to a server using the Uniface 8 SOAP component, or a HTTP Post.
You can pass the XML stream to a Java component using the March Hare UD5 Driver.
You can transform an XML stream in Uniface XML format to an XML file for another purpose, such as cXML. cXML is a standard for Purchase Order type documents in XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE cXML SYSTEM "http://xml.cXML.org/schemas/cXML/1.2.006/cXML.dtd">
<cXML payloadID="3223232@ariba.acme.com"
      timestamp="1999-03-12T18:39:09-08:00" xml:lang="en-US">
    <Header>
        <From>
            <Credential domain="AribaNetworkUserId">
                <Identity>admin@acme.com</Identity>
            </Credential>
            <Credential domain="AribaNetworkUserId" type="marketplace">
                <Identity>bigadmin@marketplace.org</Identity>
            </Credential>
        </From>
        <To>
            <Credential domain="DUNS">
                <Identity>942888711</Identity>
            </Credential>
        </To>
        <Sender>
            <Credential domain="AribaNetworkUserId">
                <Identity>admin@acme.com</Identity>
                <SharedSecret>abracadabra</SharedSecret>
            </Credential>
            <UserAgent>Ariba.com Network V1.0</UserAgent>
        </Sender>
    </Header>
    <Request deploymentMode="test">
        <OrderRequest>
             <OrderRequestHeader orderID="DO1234" orderDate="1999-03-12" 
                                    type="new">
                 <Total>
                     <Money currency="USD">2.68</Money>
                 </Total>
                 <ShipTo>
                     <Address>
                         <Name xml:lang="en">Acme</Name>
                         <PostalAddress name="default">
                             <DeliverTo>Joe Smith</DeliverTo>
                             <DeliverTo>Mailstop M-543</DeliverTo>
                             <Street>123 Anystreet</Street>
                             <City>Sunnyvale</City>
                             <State>CA</State>
                             <PostalCode>90489</PostalCode>
                             <Country isoCountryCode="US">United States</Country>
                         </PostalAddress>
                     </Address>
                 </ShipTo>
                 <BillTo>
                     <Address>
                         <Name xml:lang="en">Acme</Name>
                         <PostalAddress name="default">
                             <Street>123 Anystreet</Street>
                             <City>Sunnyvale</City>
                             <State>CA</State>
                             <PostalCode>90489</PostalCode>
                             <Country isoCountryCode="US">United States</Country>
                         </PostalAddress>
                     </Address>
                 </BillTo>
                 <Tax>
                     <Money currency="USD">0.19</Money>
                     <Description xml:lang="en">CA Sales Tax</Description>
                 </Tax>
                 <Payment>
                     <PCard number="1234567890123456" expiration="1999-03-12"/>
                 </Payment>
                 <Comments xml:lang="en-US">Anything can go here.</Comments>
             </OrderRequestHeader>
             <ItemOut quantity="2" requestedDeliveryDate="1999-03-12">
                 <ItemID>
                     <SupplierPartID>1233244</SupplierPartID>
                 </ItemID>
                 <ItemDetail>
                    <UnitPrice>
                        <Money currency="USD">1.34</Money>
                    </UnitPrice>
                    <Description xml:lang="en">hello</Description>
                    <UnitOfMeasure>EA</UnitOfMeasure>
                    <Classification domain="SPSC">12345</Classification>
                    <ManufacturerPartID>234</ManufacturerPartID>
                    <ManufacturerName>foobar</ManufacturerName>
                    <URL>www.foo.com</URL>
                 </ItemDetail>
                 <Shipping trackingDomain="FedEx" trackingId="1234567890">
                     <Money currency="USD">2.5</Money>
                     <Description xml:lang="en-us">FedEx 2-day</Description>
                 </Shipping>
                 <Distribution>
                     <Accounting name="DistributionCharge">
                         <Segment type="G/L Account" 
                                     id="23456" description="Entertainment"/>
                         <Segment type="Cost Center" 
                                     id="2323" description="Western Region Sales"/>
                     </Accounting>
                     <Charge>
                         <Money currency="USD">.34</Money>
                     </Charge>
                 </Distribution>
                 <Distribution>
                     <Accounting name="DistributionCharge">
                         <Segment type="G/L Account" 
                                     id="456" description="Travel"/>
                         <Segment type="Cost Center" 
                                     id="23" description="Europe Implementation"/>
                     </Accounting>
                     <Charge>
                         <Money currency="USD">1</Money>
                     </Charge>
                 </Distribution>
                 <Comments xml:lang="en-US">Anything can go here.</Comments>
             </ItemOut>
         </OrderRequest>
    </Request>
</cXML>

Uniface 8 has a tool inbuilt for transforming one XML format to another. With Uniface 7 you can use a 3rd Party product such as Transformix or Saxon

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