Re: PROBLEM SOLVED - State of WORKING-STORAGE in Statically-Called Subroutines

From: LX-i (lxi0007_at_netscape.net)
Date: 12/18/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:07:33 -0600

Michael Mattias wrote:

> "LX-i" <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:vu1p1sslpbqc7c@corp.supernews.com...
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>>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
>>Isn't it strange how you can find an answer you weren't even looking for
>>by researching something else?
>
>
> I do that a lot.
>
> I usually stumble across answers for 'old' questions about twelve minutes
> after spending two hours 'solving' the old challenge using some tortuous
> and obtuse method.

When I first got here, I knew little about COBOL or most any other
programming language (most of my experience was with Commodore 64
BASIC). We were releasing a new version of the database for Y2K, and
there was a help file for the currently fielded version. However, the
developer that did that was gone. I piped up and said I would do it -
it would be something to get my hands on...

Anyway, the database is laid out like COBOL records (01, 05, 10, etc.).
  I went through the entire database, making static HTML pages that used
tables and cells to align all the 05-levels together, all the 10-levels
at another level of indention, etc., and all the picture clauses aside
from that. Took me around 2 months to complete. Straight HTML - no CSS.

Once I had finished this task, I was looking through a list of HTML tags
and found the <PRE> tag. This tag (for those who don't know) tells the
page you have preformatted text - it preserves the whitespace, carriage
returns, etc. So, what took 2 months, I could have done
<PRE><Ctrl-V></PRE> - probably finished the whole thing in a day. :)

Now, I have all the items in a database, and I generate XML from the
database. I then format these using XSLT. It's great - if I want an
up-to-date copy, I can just regenerate every page with one click, and it
pulls the most recent data definitions. :)

> Then I utter an expletive.

I think I was a little past that when I found that <PRE> tag. The
ironic thing (well, sort of) is that the XSLT uses, to align the
COBOL... tables and cells. (Of course, it's much smarter than that
original setup - I'm actually quite happy with the new stuff.) 

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