How to insert blank spaces in XML tag?

Question

Hi Experts,
I have a variable of type char and lenght 10 with value "ABCDE".  When I write this value in xml tag <TEXT> using simple transformation it ignores the trailing blank spaces and the result xml string looks as <TEXT>ABCDE</TEXT>.
I want the xml tag with trailing blank spaces i.e. it should be like <TEXT>ABCDE     </TEXT>. And suppose if the variable does not contain any value, the xml tag should contain 10 blank spaces like <TEXT>          </TEXT>.
I have tried using the solution given in this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/44/f52846257a0485e10000000a155369/frameset.htm
but unfortunately it doesn't work.
Please guide me to achieve this.
Regards,
Ravi

Answer 1

ABAP prog:
DATA: text(10)    TYPE c VALUE 'ABCDE',
      xml_xstring TYPE string.
CALL TRANSFORMATION z_test SOURCE root = text
                        RESULT XML xml_xstring.
WRITE xml_xstring.
Transformation:
<?sap.transform simple?>
<tt:transform xmlns:tt="http://www.sap.com/transformation-templates">
<tt:root name="ROOT"/>
<tt:template>
      <Text tt:value-ref="ROOT"/>
</tt:template>
</tt:transform>
Result in xml string:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>#<Text>ABCDE</Text>
Also tried transformation using:
<tt:template>
      <Text>
           <tt:value length="10" ref="ROOT"/>
      </Text>
</tt:template>
Thanks.