How to remove empty tag.

Hi,
I have a scenario IDOC-XI-JDBC
From IDOC we are using change pointers and when something has been changed then those fields are being sent out but other few empty fields were coming out and to avoid that I used mapWithDefault to avoid the empty tags as target system used to error out.
But now when any field is empty coming from change pointer is also being caught in mapWithDefault....whereas it is expected to send blank.
Can anyone of you suggest any solution.
Regards
Ria

Hi Ria,
You can use if without else and check the field exist or not in the source and then map it to target.
This is a bit tricky & if you dont feel comfortable with it, then use advanced UDF, and explicitely check ResultList.SUPPRESS object and remove it in UDF and form an output stream.
You can use any of the two.
Regards,
Shri.
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Edited by: Mike Pokraka on Jul 28, 2008 5:05 PM

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> "Rec"
You may notice the the "Rec" in the second entry has empty fields. The reason this is so is because I put an "IF" condition in field "nA" and field "nB" that checks whether "nodeA" in the "source" exists/has a value, and if it doesn't, empty values should be given.
Here's my problem, I need the XML output to be clean. All empty Recs should be removed from the Output XML so that it resembles the one below:
<FILE>
.    .    <Rec>
.    .    .    <nA>001</nA>
.    .    .    <nB>OA</nB>
.    .    </Rec>
.    .    <Rec>
.    .    .    <nA>002</nA>
.    .    .    <nB>OC</nB>
.    .    </Rec>
</FILE>
I've tried several ways to get this done to no avail. Would anyone be able to help me out? I would really, really appreciate it!
Warm regards,
Glenn

Hello,
Here's how the Display Queue looks like from the "CreateIF"
Default Context:
0     [false]     [suppress]
1     [false]     [suppress]
2     [false]     [suppress]
3     [true]     []
4     [false]     [suppress]
5     [true]     []
6     [false]     [suppress]
7     [false]     [suppress]
8     [false]     [suppress]
9     [true]     []
10     [false]     [suppress]
11     [false]     [suppress]
12     [false]     [suppress]
13     [true]     []
14     [false]     [suppress]
15     [false]     [suppress]
16     [false]     [suppress]
17     [true]     []
18     [false]     [suppress]
19     [false]     [suppress]
20     [false]     [suppress]
21     [true]     []
CreateIF Context up one notch:
0     [false]     [suppress]
1     [true]     []
2     [true]     []
3     [true]     []
4     [true]     []
5     [true]     []
6      [true]     []
7     [true]     []
8     [false]     [suppress]
9     [false]     [suppress]
10     [false]     [suppress]
11     [false]     [suppress]
Here's how the Display Queue looks like from the "NodeA"
SUPPRESS     [false]
SUPPRESS     [false]
[0000000292]     [false]
[0000000292]     [true]
[0000000252]     [false]
[0000000252]     [true]
SUPPRESS     [false]
[0000000078]     [false]
[0000000078]     [false]
SUPPRESS     [true]
[0000000109]     [false]
[0000000109]     [false]
SUPPRESS     [false]
[0000000292]     [true]
[0000000292]     [false]
SUPPRESS     [false]
[0000000076]     [false]
[0000000076]     [true]
SUPPRESS     [false]
[0000000292]     [false]
[0000000292]     [false]
SUPPRESS     [true]
SUPPRESS     [false]
NodeA context one notch up:
SUPPRESS     [false]
[0000000292]     [true]
[0000000252]     [true]
[0000000078]     [true]
[0000000109]     [true]
[0000000292]     [true]
[0000000076]     [true]
[0000000292]     [true]
[0000000074]     [true]
[0000000077]     [true]
[0000000081]     [true]
[0000000292]     [true]
[0000000252]     [true]
[0000000081]     [true]
[0000000081]     [false]
SUPPRESS
Hope that helps you help me!
Glenn

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