Folgende Syntax wird für das XML PARSE Statement erkannt:

>>-XML PARSE--identifier-1--+------------------------------+---->
                            '-+------+--ENCODING--codepage-'   
                              '-WITH-'                         

>--+--------------------+--------------------------------------->
   '-RETURNING NATIONAL-'   

>--+---------------------------------------------------+-------->
   '-VALIDATING--+------+--+-identifier-2------------+-'   
                 '-WITH-'  '-FILE--xml-schema-name-1-'     

>--PROCESSING PROCEDURE--+----+--procedure-name-1--+-------------------------------+-->
                         '-IS-'                    '-+-THROUGH-+--procedure-name-2-'   
                                                     '-THRU----'                       

>--+-------------------------------------------+---------------->
   '-+----+--EXCEPTION--imperative-statement-1-'   
     '-ON-'                                        

>--+------------------------------------------------+----------->
   '-NOT--+----+--EXCEPTION--imperative-statement-2-'   
          '-ON-'                                        

>--+---------+-------------------------------------------------><
   '-END-XML-'