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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Power of the Core : Using XSD for XML Transformation in ABAP

I've already written a few posts on how to use the graphical editor to create Simple Transformations but I guess that's not good enough for lazy developers like me.

So now we are going to try a different approach assuming we already have the XSD file that describes the structure of the required XML.

Let's say you have an XSD file for which you want to generate/transform XML <-> ABAP. Of course you don't want to create the corresponding ABAP Structures or Simple Transformations manually neither you are interested in hearing about capability of another SAP Product in this field e.g. SAP PI/CE etc. That said ..

Simple Transformation for XML in ABAP - Part III & some JSON on the side

This is just to explain a bit further on one of my comments from the earlier XML related post : Generate Simple Transformation for XML in ABAP - Part II.

There were a few questions regarding transforming ABAP ITABs with deep structures to XML and setting encoding ( other than default UTF-8 ) for the output XML etc.

Politics of Change

I know it's more relevant in current scenario but I've no intention to discuss the World politics or Change, in general. It's slightly non-technical topic but still related to the IT consultancy and some of the issues we face during implementation of new software features or integration.

Technical challenges aside, some of the non-technical factors play a major part in success of any small or big project. As a consultant, while we love to work on the technical challenges, we can't avoid dealing with some of the non-technical aspects that can be termed as 'Politics'. Politics between the organization, departments, leadership, management or teams, that plays out during implementation of a change.

Customer is always right..

except when they are wrong ;) . Well, customer is almost always right but only about the problems/symptoms they are experiencing. But sometime even they are not in a position to completely explain their problems. And the gap becomes even wider when some customers start telling you about the solution, that they think, could solve their problems rather than focusing on explaining the requirement first. Suggesting the right solution is our job.