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pduvvuri

I am working with a message that has many occurs in the Cobol copybook. When I want to transform XML to Cobol, I am trying to find the best way to handle missing Occurances in the input XML.

Here is an example.

01 Order-rec.
05 ITEMS OCCURS 50 times.
10 PRODUCT-CD
10 QUANTITY
....
If the input xml contains only 5 occurances of ITEMS, what is the best way to convert to Cobol without having to set default values for every element under the ITEMS group.

The message I am working with is very large and complex and I am trying to save the effort of having to define default values for each element.