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Create XML file

former_member384574 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:53:16 GMT

Hi experts

For an interface,we need to create an XML file and save it locally. My question is: which will be the best way for the XML creation? Using xlst_tool or doing completely the file by hand?

Could you please help me?

Thanks in advance!

Regards

Rebeca

Re: Create XML file

geert-janklaps — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:48:42 GMT

Hi,

Personally I always use simple transformations or xsl based transformations. Creating an XML by hand is something I only had to resort to in a few special cases. (Dynamic format of XML file, but even in these cases it was not completely impossible to do it with transformations)

Best regards,

Geert-Jan Klaps

Re: Create XML file

Sandra_Rossi — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:45:36 GMT

It depends how it looks like, etc.

Re: Create XML file

ziolkowskib — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:28:46 GMT

Hi rebeca,
As mentioned by Geert-Jan try to go for XSLT as often as possible as this is much clearer and more readable way than creating XML file "by hand" in ABAP. That said I admit there are cases in which you need to create a very simple XML wrapper with few tags only and at those occasions it is not a crime against ABAP society to create an XML "by hand" (at least IMHO).

Regards,
Bartosz

Re: Create XML file

former_member384574 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:15:25 GMT

Hello experts,

Thanks a lot for your support! I'm completely new working with xslt_tool, so I'm a bit lost... I've created all the structures and the final structures. When I check it in sourceCode tab, it seems to be good. But now I'm executing the program and it returns the following message "Invalid XML source". Should I need to create the report now? and how can I use this for the XML grneration? Thanks!!!

Regards,

Rebeca

Re: Create XML file

Sandra_Rossi — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:13:40 GMT

Please show your code.

Create the transformation with STRANS (XSLT_TOOL is the old name, I don't recommend it because it's misleading and incite people to choose XSLT instead of Simple Transformation which is less powerful but much faster). Call it with CALL TRANSFORMATION.

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