Workbench User Guide Eclipse platform overview Getting started Basic tutorial The Workbench Editors and views Editors Views. Newcomers guide to reading XML with ABAPLet me share an experience. I was challenged with a task to read huge XML into ABAP and use it for mass upload of some information. It was not my first time with XML in ABAP, I am regularly using CALL TRANSFORMATION to generate formatted Excel files I dont want to import ABAP2. XSLX, what would be the first option to produce nicely formatted outputs to Excel, into my customers systems. Can you tell me how you use ABAP2. XSLX not being a customer. Xdelta. opensource binary diff, differential compression tools, VCDIFF RFC 3284 delta compression. FreeDiff.jpg' alt='Xml Diff And Patch Tool Example' title='Xml Diff And Patch Tool Example' />Backbone. API of enumerable. Svn is the official commandline client of Subversion. Its functionality is offered via a collection of taskspecific subcommands, most of which accept a. 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If you dont want to import Z code into your or your customers system and would like to know more about my transformation way of exporting to Excel, check my blog which describes it here Happy reporting with Excel II. So back to the topic you have an XML file youre supposed to read into ABAP structures and tables and you dont know where to start. One could use a wizard to help with the task, rightFortunately there is such a thing. Look for the magic wand icon in the transformation screen in SE8. XSLTTOOL transaction, open or create a transformation and go from there. Note that this blog is about SIMPLE TRANSFORMATIONs, not about XSLT programs your transformation object in SE8. XSLTTOOL must be of type simple transformation. XSLTTOOL wizard. What you see here are two panes left for data structures in ABAP and right for the XML tags in the file. First thing youre supposed to do is to specify a root. Ugh Root What is that You need to have ABAP dictionary structures and tables defined which will hold the information after you read it from the XML file. These you have to create manually. So before you start using the XML wizard, I suggest you start creating your structures in SE1. SE8. 0. Combine the data dictionary objects into a tree, that will approximately look like the XML file youre going to read into it. The more it emulates the input file the better. Natural, no special description needed. Now let me explain why I suggest the use of the XML tool. Those informed about CALL TRANSFORMATION know there is the standard transformation called id. Id stands for identity here. That means that the XML file content and the DDIC structures fit together 1. With my task that was not the case. Parts of XML dealing with similar things were implemented differently, some nodes had attributes, some didnt, some elements were obligatory, some not. I didnt have XSD, I didnt have any other information except the example file. When you want to use the identity transformation, you anyway need to create your DDIC structures, so this part stays with both options. To make it as clear as possible this blog helps you with mapping the XML nodes to DDIC structures. Lets assume you have your structure created in ABAP dictionary now and want to create a mapping. You now have a structure you can use as the new root in XSLTTOOL right mouse click on the left pane Insert New Root provide root name and type you created as the main top level type. Left pane gets populated according to your structure defined. You dont have a thing on the right side yet. Its a mapping. Have you ever used attributes mapping in Web. Dynpro for exampleDrag and drop works. So you drag the root from the left pane and drop it on the right. Now the program creates what I mentioned above as identity transformation. It created a program that would read the XML file where every tag is called the same as your DDIC type. But as I said ours is not the case. We need to be able to change the names of the tags and other attributes so the transformation fits on our XML. To do that double click the node on the right and you can change its name. Another typical task is to map your ABAP field to an attribute of a XML tag rather than to its value. Then you need to right click on the node and say Change to Attribute. Not a replacement for a documentation, but a shortcut for sure. You might be asking yourself why I explain something that can be read in the documentation. Easy I had to learn the hard way despite the existence of the documentation. I also realized that I need less that 5 of the available features. So if I went and read the whole documentation, I would spend a week reading about cloud castles, something that can be very tricky to imagine. With this blog I am hoping to spare the Community the time and effort of reading through everything plus I want to add some typical needs. Typical problem You use the wizard, save, activate and when want to start the wizard again or activate again, you get a success message saying Namespace prefix is not defined. Then you need to go to the source code tab of the transformation and note that there are two similar, but somewhat strange lines at the beginning. You need to delete the second line with extra space before the question mark to make the thing work again. Typical wish will also be the need to mark some nodes optional. Here I admit I didnt find a way how to do it via the wizard it must be possible, I just didnt have enough time to look for it. So I went to the transformation source code tab and change the thing there. The code goes like this if there is something to be bound to the node, process it, and otherwise carry on note that you have to process every tag that appears in the XML input stream, which means if you dont care, ok, but you have to process it too. My. Tag. A            lt tt cond checkexistREF. XX. YY            lt My. Tag. B               lt tt loop refREF. XX. YY lt process the lines if there are any               lt tt loop            lt My. Tag. B            lt tt cond    lt My. Tag. A And that is enough for you to process complex XML files into ABAP. At least it was enough for me. Happy XML parsing. Tortoise. SVNs Settings. To find out what the different settings are for, just leave your. Figure 4. 6. 9.  The Settings Dialog, General Page. This dialog allows you to specify your preferred language. Subversion specific settings. Selects your user interface language. Of course, you have to install the corresponding language. UI language than the default. English one. 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