Modify XML string of a view before output

Hi!
I'm still working in the view IUICMD/CreatePerson, when you're in the CreatePerson.htm, you will found
DATA lv_xml TYPE string.
lv_xml = controller->configuration_descr->get_config_data( ).
In the string I can se all the layout for my view, is there method to work around with this string to change the properties of the atributes so I can change the layout dinamically?
Reward points will be granted for useful answers!
Thanks N' Best Regards
Luís
Edited by: Luis pérez on May 7, 2008 9:25 AM

Hello Luis,
The XML string is the result of the View Configuration you made yourself
In the BSP WD Component Workbench (BSP_WD_CMPWB) you can find for each view of that component a tab called 'Configuration' where you can modify
- what fields are visible on that page (add/remove fields)
- how the fields are ordered on the field
- how the fields look like (display length, ...)
The results of that configuration is stored as XML in the system and called in the view (.htm) by the code you mentioned (lv_xml = controller->configuration_descr->get_config_data( ).) So if you want to change the layout of that specific view, just open the configuration tab of that view!
If you still want more flexibility you can totally disable that line of code and program everything yourself in the view with either <htmlb> <crm_bsp_ic> or one of the other (or a combination of) BSP tags, like it was in CRM 5.0. SAP still uses that way of programming for some components, maybe take a look at them, then you'll see what I mean. (Open component BT126H_MAIL in the BSP_WD_CMPWB; then double click on the 'send_screen' view and open the 'send_screen.htm' in the right pane by double clicking on it, here you see that no XML is used, instead all visible components are coded using HTML and SAP tags)
If you're not used to program in BOL / HTMLB I strongly suggest to use the SAP 'Configuration' XML mechanism. It saves you a huge amount of coding (and time)!
Hope this makes things clear!
Reward points if useful!
Regards,
Joost

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Alternatively, you can checkout the user object at the beginning of the workflow, and this will prevent your race condition by putting a lock on it. This will obviously cause problems (for you) if your users expect to be able to do multiple changes simultaneously. Don't try this approach if an angry mob will storm your cubicle -- IDM coders are hard to come by.
Jason

How to get XMP MetaData as an XML String in a process?

Hi there,
I have a process where I would like to export a documents XMP MetaData, manipulate the XMP MetaData and then import the MetaData again to the document.
I thougt first I will use the service Name "XMPUtilityService" with the Service Operation "Export XMP" to export the XMP MetaData as a document.
Hoewer I am not sure how to manipulate the output document from the Export XMP service.
When I print out the document.toString() in a execute Script Service I get the following:
<document state="active" senderVersion="0" persistent="false" senderPersistent="false" passivated="false" senderPassivated="false" deserialized="false" senderHostId="null" callbackId="0" senderCallbackId="0" callbackRef="null" isLocalizable="true" isTransactionBound="false" defaultDisposalTimeout="600" disposalTimeout="600" maxInlineSize="65536" defaultMaxInlineSize="65536" inlineSize="3440" contentType="null" length="-1"><cacheId/><localBackendId/><globalBackendId/><senderLocalBackendId/><senderGl obalBackendId/><inline><?xpacket begin="ï»¿" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="A...</inline><senderPullServantJndiName/><attributes/></document>
Actually I expected something like this:
<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 5.0-jc006 DEBUG-1.0, 2009 Jun 23 11:07:21-PDT">
   <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
      <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
            xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/">
         <pdf:Producer>Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator ES2</pdf:Producer>
      </rdf:Description>
      <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
            xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
         <xmp:ModifyDate>2010-04-20T20:43:59+02:00</xmp:ModifyDate>
         <xmp:MetadataDate>2010-04-20T20:43:59+02:00</xmp:MetadataDate>
      </rdf:Description>
      <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
            xmlns:xmpMM="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/">
         <xmpMM:DocumentID>uuid:0cf2c6c6-2fba-2b39-5fb6-33ad8ccf58aa</xmpMM:DocumentID>
         <xmpMM:InstanceID>uuid:187bc5a2-acb0-2fa9-711d-33ad8ccf58aa</xmpMM:InstanceID>
      </rdf:Description>
   </rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
<?xpacket end="w"?>
What do I need to do to get the XMPMeta data as an XML String from a document within a process?
Thanks in advance!
Paul

Hi,
thanks for the answer.
I know that I can retrieve the XMPUtilityMetadata object, but this object provides only access to a few information suche as creator, subject, producer, etc.
However I would like to retrieve the whole XML String of the XMP Metadata.
How is this possible?
Thanks.
Paul

XML string to XML parsing in JCD

I have stored an XML file as a CLOB in the Oracle DB. While fetching this data into JCD using Oracle OTD, I am getting this CLOB field as a string containing the XML. Now I want to parse this XML string to XML, as I need to map the individual fields to an XSD OTD, which will be my output.
Kindly suggest a way to achieve this.

An XSD OTD has an unmarshalFromString() method:
inputFormat.unmarshalFromString( strData );
When putting the XML into the CLOB it could be a good idea to wrap an outputstream into a Writer object in order to make certain that the encoding is correct, depending how the data is represented. When retrieving CLOB data using getCharacterStream() you will get a Reader object where the encoding is already given.

How to retreive the modified XML data?

Hi..
i had a problem in retrieving the modified xml data.
Iam using apache's DOMParser
In the my class my xml data is stored in a string.so i used following statement to read xml data from that string:
String abc="<? xml version=... some data goes here"
InputSource in=new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(abc.getBytes()));
          DOMParser domParser = new DOMParser();
          domParser.parse(in);
          Document doc = domParser.getDocument();
          Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
and i did some operations like adding ,removing and replacing elements etc.
It was fine when the checked the data.
but..i need my modified xml data as String.
is there any method to retrieve the modified xml data "as it is" in String?

You can use XMLSerializer.
Here is an example that dump your document on the console:
OutputFormat formatter = new OutputFormat();
formatter.setPreserveSpace(true);
XMLSerializer serializer =
new XMLSerializer(System.out, formatter);
serializer.serialize(doc);
where doc is your Document.

How to Parse an XML string

I need some help to parse an XML String instead of an XML file. The string can be like.
String myRecords =
"<data>"+
" <employee>"+
" <name>John</name>"+
" <Designation>Manager</Designation>"+
" </employee>"+
" <employee>"+
" <name>Sara</name>"+
" <Designation>Clerk</Designation>"+
" </employee>"+
"<data>"+

I tried it in a servlet, it and it worked. The entire code is long. But here it is most of it:
assuming that x is a string and has the xml of
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <company>
- <employee>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<lastname>Cat</lastname>
</employee>
- <employee>
<firstname>Paul</firstname>
<lastname>Enderson</lastname>
</employee>
- <employee>
<firstname>George</firstname>
<lastname>Jungle</lastname>
</employee>
</company>
=========================
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource inStream = new InputSource();
inStream.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(*x*));
Document doc = db.parse(inStream);
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
out.println("Root element " + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName() + "<BR>");
NodeList nodeLst = doc.getElementsByTagName("employee");
out.println("Information of all employees<BR>");
for (int s = 0; s < nodeLst.getLength(); s++) {
Node fstNode = nodeLst.item(s);
if (fstNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
Element fstElmnt = (Element) fstNode;
NodeList fstNmElmntLst = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("firstname");
Element fstNmElmnt = (Element) fstNmElmntLst.item(0);
NodeList fstNm = fstNmElmnt.getChildNodes();
out.println("First Name : " + ((Node) fstNm.item(0)).getNodeValue() + "<BR>");
NodeList lstNmElmntLst = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("lastname");
Element lstNmElmnt = (Element) lstNmElmntLst.item(0);
NodeList lstNm = lstNmElmnt.getChildNodes();
out.println("Last Name : " + ((Node) lstNm.item(0)).getNodeValue() + "<BR>");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
out.close();
==============
The output is
Root element company
Information of all employees
First Name : Tom
Last Name : Cat
First Name : Paul
Last Name : Enderson
First Name : George
Last Name : Jungle

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