Hierarchial data through content conversion

All,
we have an input file in the following format. (This is a fixed length file structure, where the first character is the type of the record and the rest is the data)
0XXXX
1YYYY
2MasterRow-1
3Childrow 1
3Childrow 2
4Childrow 1
4Childrow 2
2MasterRow-2
3Childrow 21
3Childrow 22
4Childrow 21
5XXXXX
we need this converted as follows, (all records are master records, only record 2 can have children. and the records of type 3 & 4 that follow record type 2 (till the next occurence of record type 2) are the children of that record.
<record><type>0</type><data>XXXX</data></record>
<record><type>1</type><data>YYYY</data></record>
<record><type>2</type><data>MasterRow-1</data>
 <children>><type>3</type><data>Childrow 1</data></children>
 <children>><type>3</type><data>Childrow 2</data></children>
 <children>><type>4</type><data>Childrow 1</data></children>
 <children>><type>4</type><data>Childrow 2</data></children>
</record>
<record><type>2</type><data>MasterRow-2</data>
 <children>><type>3</type><data>Childrow 21</data></children>
 <children>><type>3</type><data>Childrow 22</data></children>
 <children>><type>4</type><data>Childrow 21</data></children>
</record>
<record><type>5</type><data>XXXX</data></record>
Can we do this using content conversion? or should we go for multi step mapping?
Thanks,

Hi,
Ref. this doc. <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/482aae19-0301-0010-3485-8efd618818d0">How to Handle Unstructured Source Contents for Adapters</a>
Regards,
Jakub

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<DATA>
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I am varun rajaraman staying at B-2 bearing employee no. 8204.
(name,surname) (address) (Employee No.)
i.e data should be in a single row.
So, i have a problem of reading the data from input file i.e data from each row and transfering it into output file along with which i need 2 insert "i am " ,"staying at", etc.
pls tell me the procedure in detail.
Thanks and regards
santhosh rajaraman

Hi,
Check this links for file content convertion.
File content conversion sites
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2
/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30
/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
/people/jeyakumar.muthu2/blog/2005/11/29/file-content-conversion-for-unequal-number-of-columns
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2004/12/15/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-fixed-lengths-to-xi-30-using-a-central-file-adapter
/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d2/bab440c97f3716e10000000a155106/content.htm
Regards,
Phani
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I am doing a scenario - XML file to Text file using File content conversion parameters in Receiver File Adapter Channel.
I given FCC Parameters like:
DATA.addHeaderLine - '0'
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DATA.endSeparator - 'nl'
But im getting error in Receiver File Adapter as - fieldSeparator not specified.
i would be greatful if any one help me.
Regards
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Hi Rajesh,
There are lot of blogs which explain File Content Conversion in different scenarios:-
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30
/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
/people/jeyakumar.muthu2/blog/2005/11/29/file-content-conversion-for-unequal-number-of-columns
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/01/06/how-to-process-csv-data-with-xi-file-adapter
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2004/12/15/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-fixed-lengths-to-xi-30-using-a-central-file-adapter
I hope this helps.
Regards.
Praveen

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HI Friends,
I got a scenario where I need to convert the File to XML document through Sender file adapter..
My file looks like below.
BATCH1234........
12DASER123142JMM
237DSAFDLKC839890
45SDFLASJ90011
BATCH3455...
132FGAR
SD21352525
BATCH998898...
123145DSRTW
12FSTS
So there is a Header and Body for each record set..
My XML Structure is as follows.
<TimeStructure>
<TimeRecord>
 <ControlRec>
 <Field1>BATCH </Field1>
 <Field2> ...</Field2>
 </ControlRec>
 <DataRec>
 <F1> ...... </F1>
 <F2> ...... </F2>
 </DataRec>
</TimeRecord>
<TimeRecord>
 <ControlRec>
 <Field1> BATCH </Field1>
 <Field2> ADFAS </Field2>
 </ControlRec>
 <DataRec>
 <F1> ...... </F1>
 <F2> ...... </F2>
 </DataRec>
 </TimeRecord>
</TimeStructure>
The blog <a href="/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem:///people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem
is somewhat relevant to my requirement.
But the problem is I have the keyfield "BATCH" for my header file but don't have any key field in the data record of the input file.
Please help me out how to mention the configuration parameters.
Regards,
Kumar

Hi,
If you don't have constant key value for your detail records, then you can not directly get the required xml.
So in this case, you can read all the records in a common Row model, i.e each record will be considered as a one row with all the values, and then split this row with Substring or java functions in the mapping.
Even you can do this in the Adapter module .
If you have key value for each record to identify then you can try with content conversion.
Regards,
Moorthy

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HI Guys,
MY source file is comma seprated file (,) in the file i had quotes" " for the data like
"5000543","0.00","03/04/2009",
is there any way i can remove the quotes in file content conversion
Please help me on this
Regards
Srinivas

Srinivas,
This should not be a big deal, because your fields are separated by a comma. So you need to keep in mind like you are doing the content conversion for a csv file.
See this blogs for some information:
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2
In the second blog 1345 there are parameters for content conversion. So similarly mention your conversion parameters in your sender communication channel. So after converting to xml your input fields have values like:
field1: "5000543"
field2: "0.00"
field3: "03/04/2009"
So all your field values has with "". Now you can use either standard replace funciton or a udf as given above and then it will remove the quotes and then you can map according to your requirements. If you think sometimes you can get quotes and sometime not in the file then you can use function like startswith or endswith along with exists and can map accordingly.
Regards,
---Satish

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Hi all,
I am using FCC at sender side.
My recordset structure is as follow::
<MT_TW_TLOG>
<Transaction>
 ---<SalesItem> 1...unbounded
 <XF_SOURCESYS>
 <XF_STORECODE>
 <XF_TYPE>
 <XF_VOIDFLAG>
 ---</saleItem>
 ---<SalesReturn> 1...unbounded
 <XF_SOURCESYS>
 <XF_STORECODE>
 <XF_TYPE>
 <XF_VOIDFLAG>
 ---</saleReturn>
 ---<SalesTotal>
 <XF_SOURCESYS>
 <XF_STORECODE>
 <XF_TYPE>
 <XF_VOIDFLAG>
 ---</saleTotal>
 ---<SalesTender> 1...unbounded
 <XF_SOURCESYS>
 <XF_STORECODE>
 <XF_TYPE>
 <XF_VOIDFLAG>
 ---</saleTender>
</Transaction>
FCC specification that i have used is::
Recordset name:: Transaction
Recordset Structure:: salesItem,,salesReturn,,salesTotal,1,SalesTender,*
Recordset Sequencee::
Variable
Key field name::XF_TYPE
key fiel type::String(Case-sensitive)
then i have given following information::
salesItem.fieldnames ::all field names
salesItem.fieldSeparator::,
salesItem.keyFieldvalue::2
salesItem.processFiledNames::fromConfiguration
salesReturn.fieldnames ::all field names
salesReturn.fieldSeparator::,
salesReturn.keyFieldvalue::2
salesReturn.processFiledNames::fromConfiguration
salesTotal.fieldnames ::all field names
salesTotal.fieldSeparator::,
salesTotal.keyFieldvalue::2
salesTotal.processFiledNames::fromConfiguration
salesTender.fieldnames ::all field names
salesTender.fieldSeparator::,
salesTender.keyFieldvalue::2
salesTender.processFiledNames::fromConfiguration
My source file is a text file.
So when i am transfering following data,
scenario works fine.
PCTW,TWS001,2,1
PCTW,TWS001,2,10
PCTW,TWS001,3,2
PCTW,TWS001,1,3
PCTW,TWS001,4,4
Third field is my XF_TYPE.
But if i change the order of records as follows::
PCTW,TWS001,3,1
PCTW,TWS001,3,10
PCTW,TWS001,2,2
PCTW,TWS001,1,3
PCTW,TWS001,4,4
It fails at adaper monitor and throws following error::
2006-11-01 10:42:00 UTC: Error: Conversion of complete file content of 'try.txt' to XML format failed around position 0: Exception: ERROR consistency check in recordset structure validation (line no. 3: missing structure(s) before type 'SalesItem'
Please provide some help on it.
Thanks & Regards,
Nilima

Hi Nilima,
Just go through this Weblog.
/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
and specially the hilighted ( circled text ) in this and its description below.
Hope this will be helpful
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Regards
Sachin

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