Read XML in Temenos T24 Infobasic

Temenos T24 infobasic provide a very convenient method of reading a XML file using the READXML infobasic function, it simple as Writing XML.

Command Syntax

READXML rec FROM file, id 
ELSE STOP 202,id 

above command read a record from a file using the style sheet held in DICT->@READXML to transform the data into xml format. To illustrate this further we will show an example how data will look like when it is not in XML format and when in XML.

Example

READ rec FROM file,id THEN 
      CRT rec 
   END 
READXML xml FROM file,id THEN
      CRT xml 
   END 

Output

CLIVE^PIPENSLIPPERS^999 LETSBE AVENUE

Plain output, output of first command

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
 
CLIVE 
PIPENSLIPPERS 
999 LETSBE AVENUE  

XML formatted output, output of second command.