A prerequisite for compiling programs which use language elements to process XML documents is that the new keywords connected to the language elements are recognized. For this purpose the relevant control mechanism XML-SUPPORT=YES must be set when compilation takes place, see section "SOURCE-PROPERTIES option".
When such programs run, a separate open source program package - the parser - analyzes and parses the XML documents. This program package is not a component part of the COBOL compiler or CRTE, but can be downloaded from the Internet.
As it is open source software, the use of this program package is subject to its own license conditions and regulations which you must accept when you download it from the Internet.
At execution time this program package must be available as a module library in BS2000/OSD. How you obtain this module library if it is not already provided in BS2000/OSD is described in detail in section "Obtaining the parser".