On 10/3/17, 7:57 AM, "basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of Christian Grün" <basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Dave (cc to the list),
> I am creating xml on an IBM mainframe. The code page used on mainframes > is defined as EBCDIC 0037. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_E...
As EBCDIC 0037 is limited to 256 characters, a simple mapping should suffice to convert your text to ISO-8859-1 (see the mapping table in the Wikipedia entry you referenced). It should be lightning fast, no matter if you do it in assembler or in XQuery.
Dave, I, for one, am interested to know what you find, because it is an unusual (for me) problem and fun.
The Hercules people might have advice because they deal with mainframe software using gnu tools.
Kendall