FCC - Complex target hierarchy

Question

Hi There,
I was implementing a scenario where I need to create multiple IDocs from one file (which I plan to do with IDoc bundling). But I came accros a 'issue':
I have a flat file like this
header
x items
trailer
Nothing special so far, but because the rows of the items contain more than one data group (fields for general data/sales data/.. I see as different groups), I created substructures for this groups in the item structure.. Now I found out that you cannot specify such 'deep' hierarchies in the standard file content conversion parameters!? I know I can use other conversion methods or I can simply put all fields in the same structure, but is there no way to do this with file content conversion?
So the target file should look like this:
<MT_MESSAGE>
<HEADER>
some header fields
</HEADER>
<ITEM>
<GENERAL_DATA>
some general data fields
</GENERAL_DATA>
<SALES_DATA>
some sales data fields
</SALES_DATA>
</ITEM>
<ITEM>
<GENERAL_DATA>
some general data fields
</GENERAL_DATA>
<SALES_DATA>
some sales data fields
</SALES_DATA>
</ITEM>
<TRAILER>
</TRAILER>
</MT_MESSAGE>
Thanks a lot in advance!
Regards,
Sven

Answer 1

Thanks a lot for your helpful replies, but in my case I need to do it for a sender adapter (File-to-IDoc-scenario).
Example of source file (limited number of fields, but to get the idea):
TH;20080506;163900
TD;Sven;Janssens;SO01;Belgium
TD;Jan;Svenssens;SO02;Denmark
TT;4
With TH being the header, TD the items and TT the trailer records.
And this I would like to convert into the following structure:
<TH>
<DATE>20080506</DATE>
<TIME>163900</TIME>
</TH>
<TD>
<GENERAL_DATA>
<FIRST_NAME>Sven</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>Janssens</LAST_NAME>
</GENERAL_DATA>
<SALES_DATA>
<SALES_ORG>SO01</SALES_ORG>
<COUNTRY>Belgium</COUNTRY>
</SALES_DATA>
</TD>
<TD>
<GENERAL_DATA>
<FIRST_NAME>Jan</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>Svenssens</LAST_NAME>
</GENERAL_DATA>
<SALES_DATA>
<SALES_ORG>SO02</SALES_ORG>
<COUNTRY>Denmark</COUNTRY>
</SALES_DATA>
</TD>
<TT>
</TT>
Thanks a lot in advance!