This document covers the following topics:

• *PARSE-COL (r)

• *PARSE-LEVEL (r)

• *PARSE-NAMESPACE-URI (r)

• *PARSE-ROW (r)

• *PARSE-TYPE (r)

These system variables, which are available when using the PARSE statement, are only valid in the current loop context.

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*PARSE-COL (r)

Format/length:	I4
Content modifiable:	No

This system variable contains the column where the parser is currently working at.

In mainframe environments, it always points to the start of the current markup element.

(r) notation after *PARSE-COL is used to indicate the statement label or source-code line number of the PARSE statement. If (r) is not specified, *PARSE-COL represents the column where the parser in the currently active processing loop is working at.

*PARSE-LEVEL (r)

Format/length:	I4
Content modifiable:	No

This system variable contains the level of currently nested elements.

(r) notation after *PARSE-LEVEL is used to indicate the statement label or source-code line number of the PARSE statement. If (r) is not specified, *PARSE-LEVEL represents the level where the parser in the currently active processing loop is working at.

*PARSE-NAMESPACE-URI (r)

Format/length:	A (dynamic)
Content modifiable:	No

This system variable contains the namespace URI of the current element/attribute, if the element/attributes belong to a namespace. If the NAME (operand3) value of the PARSE statement is empty, then there is also no namespace and *LENGTH(*PARSE-NAMESPACE-URI) is set to 0.

(r) notation after *PARSE-NAMESPACE-URI is used to indicate the statement label or source-code line number of the PARSE statement. If (r) is not specified, *PARSE-NAMESPACE-URI represents the namespace URI of the current element/attribute in the currently active processing loop.

*PARSE-ROW (r)

Format/length:	I4
Content modifiable:	No

This system variable contains the row where the parser is currently working at.

(r) notation after *PARSE-ROW is used to indicate the statement label or source-code line number of the PARSE statement. If (r) is not specified, *PARSE-ROW represents the row where the parser in the currently active processing loop is working at.

*PARSE-TYPE (r)

Format/length:	A1
Content modifiable:	No

This Natural system variable is automatically created for each PARSE statement issued.

This system variable contains the type of the delivered data.

(r) notation after *PARSE-TYPE is used to indicate the statement label or source-code line number of the PARSE statement. If (r) is not specified, *PARSE-TYPE represents the type of the delivered data in the currently active processing loop.

Possible values for ASCII-based systems are:

?	Processing instruction (but not first <?XML ... ?>).
!	Comment.
C	CDATA section.
T	Starting tag.
@	Attribute (on mainframes: § or @, depending on session code page and terminal emulation).
/	Closing tag.
$	Parsed data.