ABAP and XML

Question

Do you have any information about reading a XML File from ABAP?

Answer 1

use these two functions,
but first you have to download xml to a string with another function. It matter with respect to the source. For example if you want to take it from net u use CALL FUNCTION 'HTTP_GET'
but i dont know how to read a local file. But you can find it with a search.
At the end you will have the xml in an internal table. Then you can again parse it for your own usage.
Hope it will help
*&      Form  str_to_xstr
      text
     -->PV_PAGE    text
     -->BUFFER     text
FORM STR_TO_XSTR USING PV_PAGE TYPE STRING
                CHANGING BUFFER.
  CALL FUNCTION 'SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING'
    EXPORTING
      TEXT           = PV_PAGE
    MIMETYPE       = ' '
    ENCODING       =
   IMPORTING
     BUFFER         = BUFFER
  EXCEPTIONS
    FAILED         = 1
    OTHERS         = 2
  IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
        WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
  ENDIF.
ENDFORM.                    "str_to_xstr
FORM PARSEXML TABLES XMLTABLE RETURN
              USING BUFFER.
  CALL FUNCTION 'SMUM_XML_PARSE'
    EXPORTING
      XML_INPUT = BUFFER
    TABLES
      XML_TABLE = XMLTABLE
      RETURN    = RETURN.
ENDFORM.                    "parsexml