Conversion of an Adobe XSTRING to XML

Question

Hi All,
I m working on an Interactive Adobe form and I have bound the pdf_source of the Interactive Form to an attribute which is of type XSTRING. Is there a function module through which I can convert this binary form of data to an XML.
I am currently displaying the value of this attribute in a text edit control and it appears to be in hex format.
Any hints will be greatly appreciated
Best regards,
Sudhi

Answer 1

Ok now I managed to get somewhere I used the following code:
METHOD ONACTIONCONVERT .
  DATA:
    ELEM_CONTEXT                        TYPE REF TO IF_WD_CONTEXT_ELEMENT,
    STRU_CONTEXT                        TYPE IF_ADOBEVIEW=>ELEMENT_CONTEXT ,
    ITEM_PDF_SOURCE                     LIKE STRU_CONTEXT-PDF_SOURCE,
    XML_TAB TYPE TABLE OF SMUM_XMLTB.
get element via lead selection
  ELEM_CONTEXT = WD_CONTEXT->GET_ELEMENT(  ).
get single attribute
  ELEM_CONTEXT->GET_ATTRIBUTE(
    EXPORTING
      NAME =  `PDF_SOURCE`
    IMPORTING
      VALUE = ITEM_PDF_SOURCE ).
  DATA:
    ITEM_STRING                         LIKE STRU_CONTEXT-STRING,
    IXML TYPE REF TO IF_IXML,
    DOCUMENT TYPE REF TO IF_IXML_DOCUMENT,
    STREAMFACTORY TYPE REF TO IF_IXML_STREAM_FACTORY,
    ISTREAM TYPE REF TO IF_IXML_ISTREAM,
    PARSER TYPE REF TO IF_IXML_PARSER,
    I_ELEMENT TYPE REF TO IF_IXML_ELEMENT,
    INT TYPE I,
    COUNT TYPE I,
    P_ERR TYPE REF TO IF_IXML_PARSE_ERROR,
    S_ERR TYPE STRING.
get element via lead selection
  ELEM_CONTEXT = WD_CONTEXT->GET_ELEMENT(  ).
*-- create the main factory
  IXML = CL_IXML=>CREATE( ).
*-- create the initial document
  DOCUMENT = IXML->CREATE_DOCUMENT( ).
  STREAMFACTORY = IXML->CREATE_STREAM_FACTORY( ).
  ISTREAM =
     STREAMFACTORY->CREATE_ISTREAM_XSTRING( ITEM_PDF_SOURCE ).
  PARSER = IXML->CREATE_PARSER(
           STREAM_FACTORY  = STREAMFACTORY
           ISTREAM         = ISTREAM
           DOCUMENT        = DOCUMENT ).
  CALL METHOD PARSER->PARSE
    RECEIVING
      RVAL   = INT.
  CALL METHOD PARSER->NUM_ERRORS
   EXPORTING
     MIN_SEVERITY = 3
    RECEIVING
      RVAL         = INT.
  COUNT = 0.
  DO INT TIMES.
     CALL METHOD PARSER->GET_ERROR
       EXPORTING
         INDEX        = COUNT
        MIN_SEVERITY = 3
       RECEIVING
         RVAL         = P_ERR
     COUNT = COUNT + 1.
     CALL METHOD P_ERR->GET_REASON
       RECEIVING
         RVAL   = S_ERR.
     CONCATENATE ITEM_STRING S_ERR INTO ITEM_STRING SEPARATED BY SPACE.
    ENDDO.
get single attribute
  ELEM_CONTEXT->SET_ATTRIBUTE(
    EXPORTING
      NAME =  `STRING`
      VALUE = ITEM_STRING ).
ENDMETHOD.
But this returns me an error saying that "unexpected symbol: '<' "
I am not sure where to correct this...
Best regards,
Sudhi