Features

General

Conversion works in both directions from XML to TXT and from TXT to XML.
During conversion from XML to TXT, TXT2XML checks that XML numeric values are really numeric.
The parameter PREFIX suppress constant part of an item name.
A Java GUI front-end is available for Windows and Linux/Unix.

A report of the analysis of the COBOL copybook (level, name, type, sign, default value, start and length) is written at the end of the conversion.
OCCURS clauses for group and elementary items are supported but only for one dimension arrays.
During XML to TXT conversion, missings XML tags are detected.
COMP-3, COMP-4, BINARY and PACKED-DECIMAL clauses are supported.
SIGN clauses, even for group items, are supported..
Multi-line COBOL item declaration are supported.
All COBOL item names are capitalized.
COBOL levels are internally renumbered from 1 by 1 so that indentation of XML is independent of absolute COBOL levels.
Line numbers in columns 1-6 & 73-80 are ignored.
Level 66, 77, 88 items are ignored.
The conversion process stops if level is greater than 50.
The conversion process stops if level is not numeric.
The conversion process stops if some unsupported COBOL clauses are found.

During text to XML conversion, an internal or external DTD can be created, based on the COBOL copybook.
XML tags are indented according to the item level.
XML element attributes are supported.
CDATA is supported.
Ecaped chars like < for "<" are supported.
Support of on more than one line.
Element content, attributes, comments, declaration, ... can expand on more than one line.
XML attributes : xml:space, xml:language, ... are ignored.