•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Organization
  •  Using this manual
    • References to ABL compiler and run-time features
    • References to ABL data types
  • Typographical conventions
  •  Examples of syntax descriptions
    • Long syntax descriptions split across lines
    • Complex syntax descriptions with both required and optional elements
  • Example procedures
  •  OpenEdge messages
    • Obtaining more information about OpenEdge messages
•  Developing with XML in OpenEdge
  •  About XML
    • Role of XML
    • Benefits of XML
    • Benefits of ABL XML development in OpenEdge
    • Benefits of SOA XML development in OpenEdge
    • Recommended resources for learning XML basics
  •  Developing XML-enabled ABL applications with DOM
    • DOM advantages
    • DOM limits
    • ABL support
    • More information
  •  Developing XML-enabled ABL applications with SAX
    • SAX advantages
    • SAX limits
    • ABL support
    • More information
  •  Serializing ABL temp-tables and ProDataSets to and from XML
    • Features
    • Use cases
    • ABL support
    • More information
•  Reading and Writing XML with the Document Object Model (DOM)
  •  XML terminology
    •  XML document structure
      • XML prolog
      • XML body
      • DTDs and XML Schema documents
      • XML elements
      • XML attributes
      • XML empty elements
      • XML entities
      • XML namespaces
  •  The ABL DOM interface
    • Prerequisites
    • Representing an XML document in ABL DOM
    • Representing a DOM node in ABL
  •  Creating XML output from ABL
    • The root node reference object
    • Creating and appending a node
    • Setting node attributes and values
    •  Example of creating an output XML file
      • Writing an XML file to a MEMPTR, a stream, or a LONGCHAR
  •  Reading XML input into ABL
    •  Loading an XML file
      • Loading an XML file from a LONGCHAR
      • Loading an XML file from a MEMPTR
    •  Accessing the child nodes
      • Using node attributes and values
    • Examples of reading an input XML file
  • Namespaces
  • Internationalization
  • Error handling
  • Validation
  • Method and attribute summary
•  Reading XML Documents with the Simple API for XML (SAX)
  •  Understanding ABL SAX
    • SAX-reader object
    • ABL SAX callbacks
    •  SAX-attributes object
      • Retrieving data from a SAX-attributes object
      • Creating a SAX-attributes object
    • Validation
    •  Namespace processing
      • Namespace declarations
      • Effects of namespace processing
    • Parsing with one call or with multiple calls
    • Monitoring the state of the parse
    • Error handling
  •  Developing ABL SAX applications
    • Basic tasks of OpenEdge SAX application
    •  Example code: retrieving names and phone numbers
      • Without namespace processing
      • With namespace processing
    • Example code: reading customer data and writing a TEMP-TABLE
  •  ABL SAX and WebSpeed
    • Example code: reading XML data using WebSpeed
    •  SAX and the AppBuilder
      • Storing and recalling context information
      • Context management example
  •  SAX API reference
    • SAX error message reference
    •  SAX callback reference
      • Characters
      • EndDocument
      • EndElement
      • EndPrefixMapping
      • Error
      • FatalError
      • IgnorableWhitespace
      • NotationDecl
      • ProcessingInstruction
      • ResolveEntity
      • StartDocument
      • StartElement
      • StartPrefixMapping
      • UnparsedEntityDecl
      • Warning
•  Writing XML Documents with the Simple API for XML (SAX)
  • SAX-writer overview
  • Creating a SAX-writer
  • Configuring a SAX-writer
  • Writing an XML document
  •  Examples
    • Creating an XML document from database data
    • Envelope information example
    • Concurrently reading and writing XML documents
  • Handling namespaces
  •  Handling errors
    • How errors are handled when STRICT is FALSE
    • How errors are handled when STRICT is TRUE
    • Errors raised by invalid method calls during SAX-writer states
    • Example of changing values in the WRITER-STATUS attribute
    • Handling codepage conversions
•  Reading and Writing XML Data from Temp-Tables and ProDataSets
  •  Introduction
    • Use cases
    • Other XML features
  •  Methods and attributes
    •  Attribute interactions
      • NAMESPACE-URI and NAMESPACE-PREFIX
      • XML-NODE-NAME and SERIALIZE-NAME
      • XML-NODE-TYPE and SERIALIZE-HIDDEN
    • ABL-specific attributes in XML Schema
  •  Reading XML Schema into a temp-table, temp-table buffer, or ProDataSet
    • Creating a dynamic temp-table with XML Schema
    • Verifying a static temp-table against XML Schema
    • Creating a dynamic ProDataSet with XML Schema
  •  Reading XML into a temp-table, temp-table buffer, or ProDataSet
    • Schema locations
    • Reading XML data into temp-tables
    • Adding XML data to a populated temp-table
    • Reading XML into a ProDataSet
    • Reading before-image data for ProDataSet temp-table buffers from XML
  •  Writing XML Schema from a temp-table, temp-table buffer, or ProDataSet
    • Writing a temp-table definition to XML Schema
    • Writing a ProDataSet definition to XML Schema files
  •  Writing XML from a temp-table, temp-table buffers, or a ProDataSet
    • Writing temp-table data to XML
    • Writing XML from a temp-table buffer's current row
    • Writing a ProDataSet to XML
    • Minimizing XML document size
    • Omitting foreign key fields in nested child records
    • Omitting fields with initial values
  •  Sample ProDataSet to XML round-trip
    • Mapping ABL names to different XML element or attribute names
  •  Using XML Schema
    • Creating dynamic ABL objects from XML Schema
    • Verifying XML Schema against ABL definitions
    •  Inferring definitions from XML data
      • Inferring schema for a temp-table
      • Inferring schema for a ProDataSet
    • Inferring data-relations from nested XML and XML Schema
    •  Examples of additional XML support
      • Simple example of a PARENT-ID-RELATION
      • XML schema with root element mapping to a temp-table
      • XML schema with no explicit field definition for a parent table
      • XML schema with parent table fields after nested child tables
      • XML schema with parent table fields interspersed among child tables
    •  ABL representation of temp-tables and ProDataSets as XML Schema
      • Namespaces
    • ABL-specific attributes on temp-table and ProDataSet definitions
    • Representing temp-tables in XML Schema
    • Representing indexes in XML Schema
    • Representing data-relations in XML Schema
•  XML Schema and ABL Data Type Mappings
  • Default mappings between ABL data types and XML Schema data types
  • Default mappings from other XML Schema data types to ABL data types
•  ABL to IANA Code Page Mappings
  • ABL to IANA code page mappings
•  Command and Utility Reference
  • bproxsdto4gl utility