[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: ABL keyword as fieldname in a dynamic temp-table and READ-XML

[Mike Fechner]

Good evening, a dynamic temp-table can contain a field named "TITLE" (an ABL keyword) - a static temp-table cannot - OK. When I WRITE-XML such a dynamic temp-table (with schema), the resulting XML contains as expected the field named "TITLE" in both the schema and the data section. However, when I create a dynamic dataset (no tables added yet) and READ-XML the xml file, the resulting temp-table in the dataset contains a field named "TITLE1" - probably to workaround the ABL keyword restriction. However, as a dynamic temp-table can contain a field named "TITLE" this does not seem to be required. Is that a bug - or a feature? And is there a way to turn that behavior off?

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