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Delete XML Tag

Former Member — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:07:32 GMT

In my program , I am reading am XML string and i want to delete all the occurences of the XML tag below:

<desc>

</desc>

I tried to write the below way but it doesn't work .

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '<desc>

\<[[:alnum:]]+\> <desc>' IN cp_xml_string WITH ' 'IGNORING CASE.

Please provide any input.

Thanks,

Sri

Re: Delete XML Tag

Lukas_Weigelt — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:51:37 GMT

Hi,

If it's an xstring, you could try to convert it into a DOM...

CALL FUNCTION 'SDIXML_XML_TO_DOM'
    EXPORTING
      xml           = lv_serializied_stream
    IMPORTING
      document      = lo_if_xml_document
    EXCEPTIONS
      invalid_input = 1
      OTHERS        = 2.

...and then navigate down where required and work with "IF_IXML_NODE_{REMOVE_NODE" and "IF_IXML_NODE}REMOVE_CHILD". I'm not sure whether you can use this, because I'm not aware of the dynamics and complexity of your XML stream, but this sure would be a possibility in general.

regards, Lukas