XML Schema generation

[Former Member]

Hi All,

     AM generating a XML document for a DDIC structure. I am able to generate the XML document but the customer requires the document in a specific format as shown below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Import xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <Row>

  <License>1234</License>

  <Distribution_Type>I</Distribution_Type>

  </Row>

I have used the Call transformation method by creating a id in TCODE strans. The issue is, the first two lines of the document is as not expected.

How to achieve this ???

The first 2 lines are expected to be

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Import xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

but I get the following in my file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

Regards

Arun

[AbhishekSharma]

Hi Arunkumar,

This seems to be because of some special characters, ISO-8859-1” is the Latin-1 (western European languages) encoding.

There is one class available CL_XML_DOCUMENT using which you can set your desired encoding as below:

CREATE OBJECT m_document.

   m_document->CREATE_EMPTY_DOCUMENT( ) .

   m_document->set_encoding( CHARSET = 'UTF-8' ).

If above two not work then try to change any special character like & with &amp; etc.

Below code taken from F1 help of CALL TRANSFORMATION

CALL TRANSFORMATION - transformation_options

Syntax

... OPTIONS [clear              = val]
            [data_refs          = val]
            [initial_components = val]
            [technical_types    = val]
            [value_handling     = val]
           [xml_header         = val] ... .

In OPTIONS of CALL TRANSFORMATION last parameter XML_HEADER

The transformation option xml_header controls the output of the XML header when transforming to XML and writing to a data object of type c, string, or to an internal table.

Possible Values	Meaning
no	No XML header is output.
without_encoding	An XML header is output without specifying the encoding.
full	Default setting; an XML header is output, specifying the encoding.

You can try passing this without_encoding option which will not generate any encoding.

Hope this will help.

Thanks-

Abhishek

[Former Member]

Hi Abhishek,

     Thanks for your reply. The default code page in the system is ISO-8859-1.

      I have used the set_encoding method to and now the xml gets generated as below

       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

      But, the customer wants it as shown below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Import xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

     The first 2 lines should appear as shown above

Regards

Arun

[AbhishekSharma]

Hi Arunkumar,

I checked the Class but could not find any relevant information on standalone = "yes" parameter.

Just curious why client needs this parameter do they use DTD instead of XML schema.

If they do use XML Schema then there is no meaning of defining standalone="yes". The default value for this parameter is "no".

From below second line I understood Client is using XML Schema and not DTD so I dont think you need standalone="yes".

REPLACE FIRST OCCURRENCE OF

   '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'

  IN lv_xml

WITH

'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Import xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

'.

This could be your final solution REPLACE.

Thanks-

Abhishek