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"Hello World" takes how many lines?. Parsing/generating XML - is now built into the language. Maybe you should be upgrading your knowledge base. This answer belongs to the 1960's era of COBOL.

NealB
– NealB

2011-10-17 16:20:20 +00:00
Commented Oct 17, 2011 at 16:20
Interesting. I haven't had to work with COBOL for close to a decade, but that last time I saw it it was written just as I remembered it, IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, WORKING-STORAGE SECTION and all. I guess all those "required comments" (AUTHOR, DATE-WRITTEN, SOURCE-COMPUTER, OBJECT-COMPUTER) are optional now. XML parsing doesn't look that impressive -- you have to structure the data division to reflect the file structure, there's no SAX or DOM-style processing. Good to know it's there, though.

TMN
– TMN

2011-10-17 18:10:50 +00:00
Commented Oct 17, 2011 at 18:10

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