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iXML Library, Creating Nodes

Create a node in DOM step by step.

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Source Code

REPORT DEMO_IXML_CREATE_ELEMENTS.

CLASS ixml_demo DEFINITION.
  PUBLIC SECTION.
    CLASS-METHODS main.
ENDCLASS.

CLASS ixml_demo IMPLEMENTATION.
  METHOD main.
    DATA(ixml)     = cl_ixml=>create( ).
    DATA(document) = ixml->create_document( ).

    DATA(root) = document->create_element_ns( name = 'abap'
                                             prefix = 'asx' ).
    root->set_attribute_ns( name =  'asx'
                            prefix = 'xmlns'
                            value = 'http://www.sap.com/abapxml' ).
    root->set_attribute_ns( name =  'version'
                            value = '1.0' ).
    document->append_child( root ).

    DATA(node1) = document->create_element_ns( prefix = 'asx'
                                              name = 'values' ).
    root->append_child( node1 ).

    DATA(node2) = document->create_element_ns( name = 'TEXT' ).
    node1->append_child( node2 ).

    node2->append_child( document->create_text( 'Hello XML' ) ).

    DATA xml_string TYPE string.
    ixml->create_renderer( document = document
                           ostream  = ixml->create_stream_factory(
                                       )->create_ostream_cstring(
                                            string = xml_string )
                                              )->render( ).
    cl_demo_output=>write_xml( xml_string ).

    DATA result TYPE string.
    CALL TRANSFORMATION id SOURCE XML xml_string
                           RESULT  text = result.
    cl_demo_output=>write_data( result ).

    cl_demo_output=>display( ).
  ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.

START-OF-SELECTION.
  ixml_demo=>main( ).

Description

Nodes are created as elements, attributes, and content and inserted into XML data. The result represents XML data in asXML format, which can be deserialized to ABAP using CALL TRANSFORMATION id.