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FIle Content Conversion

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Hi,

I'm new to SAPXI , Pls give me some info about file content conversion.

Thanks,

Devi

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Hi Devi,

What is File Content Conversion?

File content conversion is used for converting flat files (fixed lenght, comma seperated) into XML messages for further processing by an integration engine. The internal XI processing (mapping, routing etc) is based on XML messages hence you need messages to be converted to XML.

SAP By default understands xml data structure. If your file is coming in an xml format you can process it as it is.

In case of file that is coming with a delimiter then you need to have File content conversion for SAP adpater to conver file into an XML structure which will then go to next step of Message Mapping.

What is its function?

Check these blogs for content conversion,

/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30

For its use:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm

Thanks,

Vijaya.