Parsing XML not looking at the tags

The stream of data should be the data within the tags <my-data>Hello</my-data> when using AcuXML you would see Hello. There is also the C$XML library routine to get XML data.

You might want to look at this: community.microfocus.com/.../xml-sample-program-showing-how-to-read-an-xml-file

I see the tags and everything in the data stream with acuxml.  I may have missed something in the setup... Thanks for the link i'll be sure to check that one out

When using AcuXML, did you create Data dictionaries .. To create the XFDs, you specify "-Fa" on the command line when you compile your COBOL source. This option signals the compiler to create an XFD file for every indexed, relative, or sequential file contained in the program. To prevent naming errors, you should also include the "-Fc" option, which tells the compiler that the field names in the resulting XFDs must match the element names in the COBOL source exactly.  

Then start the COBOL program in the debugger (wrun32 -dle error-file-name myprog.acu ) in the debugger enter tf 9 and then enter t flush - when your program exits, the error-file-name will now show what config variables you used and the file i-o.