Introduction

This chapter explores useful recipes related to simple transformations. We will start with a brief overview of simple transformations and their structure. We will also discuss the process of the conversion of ABAP data into an XML stream (serialization) and the reverse process (deserialization).

We will start with a simple recipe in which we create a simple transformation that contains no root element but only XML literal elements and text. We will then see how to create transformations to interpret ABAP structures and internal tables. Next, we will see how we can quickly generate a transformation for a dictionary-defined table type using the transaction XSLT_TOOL.

There are two types of transformations possible via the transformation editor transaction XSLT_TOOL. They are the XSLT transformation the and simple transformation. XSLT transformations are defined using the XSLT programming language (and additional SAP-related statements). In addition to XSLT elements, ABAP calls are...