Creating XML file using data from database table

I have to create an xml file using the data from multiple table. The problem That i am facing is the data is huge it is in millions so I was wondering that is there any efective way of creating such an xml file.
It would be great if you can suggest some approach to achieve my requirement.
Thanks,
-Vinod

An example from the forum: Re: How to generate xml file from database table
Edited by: Marco Gralike on Oct 18, 2012 9:41 PM

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function merge_header3 return varchar2 is
begin
     return '~FACILITY DESCRIPTION~ACCOUNT NO~BRANCH CODE~BANK REF NO.~P/P/ AMOUNT~Postal Address 1~Postal Address 2~Box Postal Code~Dep. Date~Month~BANK NAME~BRANCH NAME~ACCOUNT TYPE~DESCRIPTION~OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION';
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procedure download_file (i_pbat integer) is
dir varchar2(80);
file_name1 varchar2(80);
file_name2 varchar2(80);
appl_code varchar2(80);
fil1 client_text_io.file_type;
fil2 client_text_io.file_type;
dat varchar2(1000);
DATA VARCHAR2(1000);
bvspro varchar2(100);
ssch   varchar2(100);
bvspro_total number(20,2);
ssch_total   number(20,2);
grand_total number(20,2);
cnt    integer;
cursor pbat is
     select *
     from sms_payment_batches
     where id = i_pbat
cursor pay (pb_id integer) is
     select *
     from sms_payment_vw
     where pbat_id = pb_id
     order by subsidy ASC,programme,beneficiary_name
cursor cgref (low varchar2) is
     select *
     from cg_ref_codes
     where rv_domain ='SMS'
     and rv_low_value = low
success boolean;
begin
     set_application_property(cursor_style,'busy');
     appl_code := sms_global.ref_code('SMS','APP_CODE','SMS',0);
    dir       := sms_global.ref_code('SMS','PAY_DIR','c:\sms\batch_payments',0);
         success := webutil_file.create_directory(dir);
     if webutil_file.file_is_directory(dir) then
         null;
--         message ('directory exists');
    else
--                  message ('create directory ');
         success := webutil_file.create_directory(dir);
--         if success then        message ('directory exists');    end if;
    end if;
    for c_pbat in pbat loop
         file_name1 := dir ||'\' || appl_code||c_pbat.batch_number||'-'||to_char(c_pbat.batch_dt,'yyyymmdd')||'pay.txt';
         file_name2 := dir ||'\' || appl_code||c_pbat.batch_number||'-'||to_char(c_pbat.batch_dt,'yyyymmdd')||'merge.txt';
--message('create files ');
--         fil1 := client_text_io.fopen (file_name1,'W');
--         fil2 := client_text_io.fopen (file_name2,'W');
    fil1 := client_text_io.fopen (file_name1,'W','');
    fil2 := client_text_io.fopen (file_name2,'W','');
               dat :=                       'FROM ACCOUNT NUMBER'
                                                            ||'~'||'FROM ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION'
                                                            ||'~'||'MY STATEMENT DESCRIPTION'
                                                            ||'~'||'BENEFICIARY ACCOUNT NUMBER'
                                                            ||'~'||'BENEFICIARY SUB ACCOUNT NUMBER'
                                                            ||'~'||'BENEFICIARY BRANCH CODE'
                                                            ||'~'||'BENEFICIARY NAME'
                                                            ||'~'||'BENEFICIARY STATEMENT DESCRIPTION'
                                                            ||'~'||'AMOUNT';
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         ssch := null;
         cnt := 0;
         dat := '~'||lpad('~',16,'~');
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--message('cpay loop ' || cnt);
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                 dat := lpad('~',16,'~');
                 dat := utility.put_field(1,c_pay.programme,dat,'~');
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           dat := utility.put_field(1,c_pay.subsidy,dat,'~');
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                 client_text_io.put_line(fil2,dat);
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                 ssch := c_pay.subsidy;
                 grand_total := 0;
                 bvspro_total := 0;
                 ssch_total := 0;
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                 dat := utility.put_field(5,ssch_total,dat,'~');
                 dat := lpad('~',16,'~');
                 dat := utility.put_field(5,bvspro_total,dat,'~');
           dat := utility.put_field(1,'Total:' || bvspro,dat,'~');
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           client_text_io.put_line(fil2,dat);
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                 bvspro := c_pay.programme;
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                 bvspro := c_pay.programme;
                 ssch := c_pay.subsidy;
                 bvspro_total := 0;
                 ssch_total := 0;
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                 dat := lpad('~',16,'~');
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                 dat := lpad('~',16,'~');
           client_text_io.put_line(fil2,dat);
           dat := utility.put_field(1,c_pay.subsidy,dat,'~');
           client_text_io.put_line(fil2,dat);
           dat := merge_header3;
                 client_text_io.put_line(fil2,dat);
                 ssch := c_pay.subsidy;
                 ssch_total := 0;
                 cnt :=0;
         end if;
        bvspro_total := bvspro_total + c_pay.amount;
        ssch_total   := ssch_total   + c_pay.amount;
              grand_total := grand_total + c_pay.amount;
        cnt := cnt +1;
--message('bfore write file 2 ' );
        client_text_io.put_line(fil2
                               ,cnt
                        ||'~'|| c_pay.beneficiary_name
                                                            ||'~'||c_pay.BENEFICIARY_ACCOUNT_NUMBER ||''
                                                            ||'~'||c_pay.BRANCH_CODE             ||''
                                                            ||'~'|| c_pay.BENEFICIARY_STATEMENT_DESC
                                                            ||'~'|| c_pay.AMOUNT
                        ||'~'|| c_pay.address_line1
                        ||'~'|| c_pay.address_line2
                                                ||'~'|| c_pay.postal_code
                                                ||'~'|| TO_CHAR(c_pay.deposit_date,'DD-Mon-YYYY')
                                                ||'~'|| c_pay.month
                                                ||'~'|| c_pay.bank
                                                ||'~'|| c_pay.bank_branch
                                                ||'~'|| c_pay.account_type
                                                ||'~'|| c_pay.subsidy
                                                ||'~'|| c_pay.programme)
              DATA :=                                  c_pay.FROM_ACCOUNT_NUMBER
                                                            ||'~'||c_pay.FROM_ACCOUNT_DESCR
                                                            ||'~'||c_pay.MY_STATEMENT_DESCR
                                                            ||'~'||c_pay.BENEFICIARY_ACCOUNT_NUMBER
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                                                            ||'~'||c_pay.BRANCH_CODE
                                                            ||'~'||c_pay.BENEFICIARY_NAME
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        DATA := REPLACE(DATA, ',' , ' ' );
        DATA := REPLACE(DATA, '~' , ',' );
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newTOWN
there is one more query i am not able to execute the following statement .......why?
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it is showing a syntax error.......
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Hi Tippu,
Your select statement consists of CS whcih may not be a valid comparision operator because of which error is displayed have look of this..
data itab like kna1 occurs 0 with header line.
parameters: s_town like kna1-ORT01.
select ORT01 from KNA1 into table itab where ORT01 = s_town.
Fetch the city and concatenate with TOWN your issue will be sloved.
Cheers!!
Balu
Edited by: Balu CH on Oct 21, 2008 11:13 PM

Exporting data from database tables to a XML file

Hi,
We want to export data from Oracle database tables to an XML
file. What tool can we use for this purpose, and how do we go
about it ?
Can we extract data only from an Oracle8 database, or can we
extract data from Oracle7.3 databases too ?
Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
Thanks
Dipanjan
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Dipanjan (guest) wrote:
: Hi,
: We want to export data from Oracle database tables to an XML
: file. What tool can we use for this purpose, and how do we go
: about it ?
: Can we extract data only from an Oracle8 database, or can we
: extract data from Oracle7.3 databases too ?
: Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
: Thanks
: Dipanjan
Start by downloading the XML SQL Utility and make sure you have
the approriate JDBC 1.1 drivers installed for your database.
There are samples which will get you going included in the
archive.
Oracle XML Team
http://technet.oracle.com
Oracle Technology Network
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Export data from database table before database migration

Hello,
We are planning to migrate our SAP ERP 6 Ehp4/NW7.01 from Oracle 11.2 to IBM DB2 v. 9.7 database. During test migrations I have established that we spend a lot of time for one particular table (COEP). Because we donu2019t have possibility to archive this table before migration I have an idea to export data from previous years from this table to the file system (using an ABAP report), delete those data from table before migration and then after migration, import back to the database from the file system.
Does anybody have any concerns or suggestions about this idea?
Thank you for your answers
Andrej

Hello Andrej,
I strongly do not recommend to do so.
I am not sure whether technically this could work at all..
Even it if would work .. In order to really save time, the export and the import would have to be a dirty one (meaning the system is operational and in production). With this there is a high risk to produce inconsistencies on this table. And you most likely will receive no support if something unforeseen happens and you end with problems.
Also your approach (if it should work at all) , would have to be tested thoroughly by you , also protecting the table from any changes.
I do not believe that this can save any effort compared to implementing advanced migration techniques like table splitting.
On top, you would go high risk to end with an unsupported system, with not using official migration procedures
Hans-Juergen

Report using Data from different tables

Hello,
I am trying to convert a Cobol batch program to Oracle 6i tabular report.
The data is fetched from many different tables and there are lots of processing(i.e, based on the value of a column from one table need additional processing from different tables) required to generate the desired columns in the final report.
I would like to know what is the best strategy to follow in Oracle Reports 6i. I heard that CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE is an option. ( or REF CURSOR ?) I do not know much about its usage. Can somebody guide me about this or any other better way to achieve the result.
Thank you in advance
Priya

Hello,
There are many, many options available to you, each of which has advantages and disadvantages. This is why it is difficult to answer "what is best?" without alot more details about your specific circumstances.
In general, you're going to be writing PL/SQL to do any conditional logic that cannot be expressed as pure SQL. It can executed in the database, or it can executed within Reports itself. And most reports developers do some of both.
As a general rule, you want to send only the data you need from the database to the report. This means you want to do as much filtering and aggregating of the data as is readily possible within the database. If this cannot be expressed as plain SQL queries, then you'll want to create a stored procedures to help do this work.
Generally, the PL/SQL you create for executing within the report should be focused on control of the formatting, such as controlling whether a field is visible, or controlling display attributes for conditional formatting.
But these are not hard and fast rules. In some cases, it is difficult to get all the stored procedures you might like installed into the database. Perhaps the dba is reluctant to let you install that many stored procedures. Perhaps there are restrictions when and how often updates can be made to stored procedures in a production database, which makes it difficult to incrementally adjust your reports based on user feedback. Or perhaps there are restrictions for how long queries are allowed to run.
So, Reports offers lots of options and features to let you do data manipulation operations from within the report data model.
In any case, Oracle does offer temporary table capabilities. You can populate a temp table by running stored procedures that do queries, calculations and aggregations. And you can define and initiate a dynamic query statement within the database and pass a handle to this query off to the report to execute (ref cursor).
From the reports side, you can have as many queries as you want in the data model, arranged in any hierarchy via links. You can parameterize and change the queries dynamically using bind variables and lexicals. And you can add calculations, aggregations, and filters.
Again, most people do data manipulation both in the database and in Reports, using the database for what it excels at, and Reports for what it excels at.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
The Oracle Reports Team --skw

Create xml file with values from context

Hi experts!
I am trying to implement a WD application that will have some input fields, the value of those input fields will be used to create an xml file with a certain format and then sent to a certain application.
Apart from this i want to read an xml file back from the application and then fill some other context nodes with values from the xml file.
Is there any standard used code to do this??
If not how can i do this???
Thanx in advance!!!
P.S. Points will be rewarded to all usefull answers.
Edited by: Armin Reichert on Jun 30, 2008 6:12 PM
Please stop this P.S. nonsense!

Hi,
you need to create three util class for that:-
XMLHandler
XMLParser
XMLBuilder
for example in my XML two tag item will be there e.g. Title and Organizer,and from ur WebDynpro view you need to pass value for the XML tag.
And u need to call buildXML()function of builder class to generate XML, in that i have passed bean object to get the values of tags. you need to set the value in bean from the view ui context.
Code for XMLBuilder:-
Created on Apr 4, 2006
Author-Anish
This class is to created for having function for to build XML
and to get EncodedXML
and to get formated date
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import com.idb.events.Event;
public class XMLBuilder {
This attribute represents the XML version
     private static final double VERSION_NUMBER = 1.0;
This attribute represents the encoding
     private static final String ENCODING_TYPE = "UTF-16";
     /*Begin of Function to buildXML
return: String
input: Event
     public String buildXML(Event event) {
          StringBuffer xmlBuilder = new StringBuffer("<?xml version=\"");
          xmlBuilder.append(VERSION_NUMBER);
          xmlBuilder.append("\" encoding=\"");
          xmlBuilder.append(ENCODING_TYPE);
          xmlBuilder.append("\" ?>");
          xmlBuilder.append("<event>");
          xmlBuilder.append(getEncodedXML(event.getTitle(), "title"));
          xmlBuilder.append(getEncodedXML(event.getOrganizer(), "organizer"));
          xmlBuilder.append("</event>");
          return xmlBuilder.toString();
     /End of Function to buildXML/
     /*Begin of Function to get EncodedXML
return: String
input: String,String
     public String getEncodedXML(String xmlString, String tag) {
          StringBuffer begin = new StringBuffer("");
          if ((tag != null) || (!tag.equalsIgnoreCase("null"))) {
               begin.append("<").append(tag).append(">");
               begin.append("<![CDATA[");
               begin.append(xmlString).append("]]>").append("</").append(
                    tag).append(
                    ">");
          return begin.toString();
     /End of Function to get EncodedXML/
     /*Begin of Function to get formated date
return: String
input: Date
     private final String formatDate(Date inputDateStr) {
          String date;
          try {
               SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat =
                    new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
               date = simpleDateFormat.format(inputDateStr);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               return "";
          return date;
     /End of Function to get formated date/
Code for XMLParser:-
Created on Apr 12, 2006
Author-Anish
This is a parser class
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import com.idb.events.Event;
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.api.IWDMessageManager;
public class XMLParser {
Enables namespace functionality in parser
     private final boolean isNameSpaceAware = true;
Enables validation in parser
     private final boolean isValidating = true;
The SAX parser used to parse the xml
     private SAXParser parser;
The XML reader used by the SAX parser
     private XMLReader reader;
This method creates the parser to parse the user details xml.
     private void createParser()
          throws SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
          // Create a JAXP SAXParserFactory and configure it
          SAXParserFactory saxFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
          saxFactory.setNamespaceAware(isNameSpaceAware);
          saxFactory.setValidating(isValidating);
          // Create a JAXP SAXParser
          parser = saxFactory.newSAXParser();
          // Get the encapsulated SAX XMLReader
          reader = parser.getXMLReader();
          // Set the ErrorHandler
This method is used to collect the user details.
     public Event getEvent(
          String newsXML,
          XMLHandler xmlHandler,
          IWDMessageManager mgr)
          throws SAXException, ParserConfigurationException, IOException {
          //create the parser, if not already done
          if (parser == null) {
               this.createParser();
          //set the parser handler to extract the
          reader.setErrorHandler(xmlHandler);
          reader.setContentHandler(xmlHandler);
          InputSource source =
               new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(newsXML.getBytes()));
          reader.parse(source);
          //return the results of the parse
          return xmlHandler.getEvent(mgr);
Code for XMLHandler:-
Created on Apr 12, 2006
Author-Anish
This is a parser class
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import com.idb.events.Event;
Created on Apr 12, 2006
Author-Anish
*This handler class is created to have constant value for variables and function for get events,
    character values for bean variable,
    parsing thr date ......etc
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import java.util.*;
import com.idb.events.Event;
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.api.IWDMessageManager;
public class XMLHandler extends DefaultHandler {
     private static final String TITLE = "title";
     private static final String ORGANIZER = "organizer";
     IWDMessageManager manager;
     private Event events;
     private String tagName;
     public void setManager(IWDMessageManager mgr) {
          manager = mgr;
This function is created to get events
     public Event getEvent(IWDMessageManager mgr) {
          manager = mgr;
          return this.events;
This function is created to get character for setting values through event's bean setter method
     public void characters(char[] charArray, int startVal, int length)
          throws SAXException {
          String tagValue = new String(charArray, startVal, length);
          if (TITLE.equals(this.tagName)) {
               this.events.setTitle(tagValue);
          if (ORGANIZER.equals(this.tagName)) {
               String orgName = tagValue;
               try {
                    orgName = getOrgName(orgName);
               } catch (Exception ex) {
               this.events.setOrganizer(orgName);
This function is created to parse boolean.
     private final boolean parseBoolean(String inputBooleanStr) {
          boolean b;
          if (inputBooleanStr.equals("true")) {
               b = true;
          } else {
               b = false;
          return b;
This function is used to call the super constructor.
     public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
          throws SAXException {
          super.endElement(uri, localName, qName);
     /* (non-Javadoc)
@see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#fatalError(org.xml.sax.SAXParseException)
This function is used to call the super constructor.
     public void fatalError(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
          super.fatalError(e);
This function is created to set the elements base on the tag name.
     public void startElement(
          String uri,
          String localName,
          String qName,
          Attributes attributes)
          throws SAXException {
          this.tagName = localName;
          if (ROOT.equals(tagName)) {
               this.events = new Event();
     public static void main(String a[]) {
          String cntry = "Nigeria";
          XMLHandler xml = new XMLHandler();
          ArrayList engList = new ArrayList();
          engList = xml.getCountries();
          ArrayList arList = xml.getArabicCountries();
          int engIndex = engList.indexOf(cntry);
          System.out.println("engIndex :: " + engIndex);
          String arCntryName = (String) arList.get(engIndex);
          System.out.println(
               ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>" + xml.getArabicCountryName(cntry));
Hope that may help you.
If need any help , you are most welcome.
Regards,
Deepak

Using data from mutliple tables in COOIS

We are in the process of upgrading from 4.6C to ECC60. In 4.6C, we
implemented the modification as described in Note 434123 to add custom
fields to the COOIS report.
Our custom list contains data from both the order header and order
operations. Therefore, data was drawn from tables IOOPER_TAB and
IOHEADER_TAB, which were both present in the old solution. However, the
BADI solution used in ECC60 only contains data in the structure belonging to the list
type selected at the selection screen. The list types are defined in
domain 'PPIO_LISTTYPE'. The structure that is filled with data is set inprogram PPIO_ENTRY_FILL_TCOA, form 'fill_tcoa'. Unfortunately, there is
no list type available that activates both IOOPER and IOHEADER.
I also cannot find a method in the BADI to influence the content of TCOA.
However, I don't want to create lengthy code to retrieve the data myself.
The most tempting solution (modification) is to:
1. extend the value range of PPIO_LISTTYPE with the cusom list
2. add an entry to the CASE statement in form FILL_TCOA to place an 'X' in both 'cs_tcoa-oper_sel' and 'cs_tcoa-header_sel'.
When (using list type PPIOO00-operations), and manually setting 'cs_tcoa-header_sel' to 'X' in the debugger, all data needed to create
the desired output is present. Is it truly necessary to implement this as a modification, or is there a better solution (without implementing a modification) to activate data
retrieval of multiple tables form logical database IOC?

Thanks very much for your quick response Anup.
1. If I create a view in R/3, please let me know how should I bring this information in to BW. Should I create a table in bw or should I create a generic datasource attaching this view?
Also, please let me know what will be the logic (not the abap code) to create a view on these 4 tables. I need to incorporate this logic in to my spec.
2. Do I write a function module in BW?
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