Handling of Names

FILLER is a special name in COBOL. These fields cannot be referenced from a COBOL program and are allowed to occur more than once, because these names do not have to be unique in a copybook.

The Plug-in applies the following processing:

  • Copybook items are not required to have unique names. However, if non-unique names are encountered at the same group level or at the top the level, the Plug-in generates unique XSD names by adding numeric suffixes '-n'. For example, for this copybook: 
    01 ROOT.
   02 ITEM PIC X.
   02 ITEM PIC X.

    The XSD name of the first elementary item is ITEM, but the second item is named ITEM-0.

  • The Plug-in allows unnamed items. In this case, the XSD name is NO-NAME. If many unnamed items are present at the same group level or at the top the level, the names are made unique by adding numeric suffixes '-n': NO-NAME-0, NO-NAME-1 and so on.