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How to define complex type with table per record?

Former Member — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:30:34 GMT

Hi,

for one of my tasks I'm dealing with XML export. After short investigation of the postings in the forum I found an acceptable solution:

The issue is that I need an XML file like this:

<plant>

...

...

</material>

...

</next material>

</plant>

So here are the questions:

1. Is it possible (and how) to define such deep structured type where for each record (means material) there is at least 1 internal table connected to that record? That would let me use a record-2-DOM conversion and a standard DOM-2-XML renderer.

2. Could anyone please provide a very simple and short example?

Of course, I could write my own XML renderer and achieve what I need (without using DOM, simply write to file all the desired XML tags while looping at my *nested* tables), but if there is a way to define such a structured type and further to fill it with data, it would help me learn a little bit more about abap opportunities and would save me a bit more time to create a renderer.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ivaylo Mutafchiev

Re: How to define complex type with table per record?

Former Member — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:53:10 GMT

Hi,

You can declare deep structure as below

TYPES : BEGIN OF ty_address,

house(10) TYPE c,

street(10) TYPE c,

END OF ty_address.

TYPES : BEGIN OF ty_itab,

name(10) TYPE c,

age TYPE i,

address TYPE ty_address OCCURS 0,

END OF ty_itab.

DATA : i_address TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_address,

i_itab TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_itab.

DATA : wa_address TYPE ty_address,

wa_itab TYPE ty_itab.

CLEAR : wa_address,

wa_itab.

wa_address-house = 'House1'.

wa_address-street = 'Street1'.

APPEND wa_address TO i_address.

wa_address-house = 'House2'.

wa_address-street = 'Street2'.

APPEND wa_address TO i_address.

wa_itab-name = 'Test'.

wa_itab-age = 10.

wa_itab-address[] = i_address[].

APPEND wa_itab TO i_itab.

Also check structure BSPL_GRID_FIELDCAT field CELL_COLOR

Re: How to define complex type with table per record?

Former Member — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:34:37 GMT

Simple and perfectly clear.

Thanks a lot!

Ivaylo