Howto transform a Sales Order (idoc) into xml file and download it?

Question

I need to tranform a Sales order into an xml file such that I could download the file onto my disk. I try to transform an IDOC.
I do the following from an example and I get an xml document on screen but I do get get any file downloaded:
DATA: document TYPE REF TO if_ixml_document.
  document = g_ixml->create_document( ).
  DATA: ostream TYPE REF TO if_ixml_ostream.
ostream = g_stream_factory->create_ostream_uri(
  system_id = 'file://C:\test.xml' ).
  DATA: renderer TYPE REF TO if_ixml_renderer, rc TYPE i.
renderer = g_ixml->create_renderer( ostream  = ostream
                                      document = document ).
  rc = renderer->render( ).
  document->render( ostream = ostream  recursive = ' ').
Is there something else I should do? Is there another approach for transforming a sales order to an xml file.
The R/3 4.6 system is used.
Thank you
-eglese-

Answer 1

Hi Eglese,
Another option could be to use XML port configured for the IDOC and use the XML files generated be extracted from Web Dynpro using a file download UI element.
Thanks and Regards,
Sam Mathew