Problem with the Danish characters

Question

Hi,
I am generating an XML file from a custom smartform and saving into a folder in the application server. When the file is written into the application server, the Danish characters are not coming properly. Probaly this is a issue related to the codepage that the XML file is using. I am using the following technique to write the XSF data returned by the Smartform auto generated funciton module into the application server. The generated xml file starts with something like <?xml version="1.0"?> and it seems that the encoding header attribute is missing somehow and I dont know how to put it.
data wa type bin1024.
data length type i.
DATA dsn(50) VALUE '/tmp/test.xml' .
length = P_OUTPUT-XSFLENGTH.
OPEN DATASET dsn FOR OUTPUT IN BINARY MODE.
loop at P_OUTPUT-XSFDATA into wa.
  if length > 1024.
    transfer wa to dsn.
    length = length - 1024.
  else.
    transfer wa to dsn length length.
  endif.
endloop.
close dataset dsn.</i>
I am desperately trying to find out a solution to this. It would be nice of you if I can get a quick solution.
Thanks in advance
Nilay Ghosh

Answer 1

Hi Nablan,
Thanks for your quick reply. The raw XSF data is stored in the P_OUTPUT-XSFDATA as multiple lines of 1024 bytes. Actually I have slighly changed the logic for transfering the XML data into the file and following is the latest one.
    DATA: l_last TYPE i,
          l_len TYPE i,
          l_sytabix TYPE int4.
    l_len = 1024.
    l_sytabix = l_xmlsize DIV l_len.
    l_sytabix = l_sytabix + 1.
    l_last = l_xmlsize MOD l_len.
  Open the file in the appl server
    OPEN DATASET l_xml_filename FOR OUTPUT IN BINARY MODE.
    IF sy-subrc = 0.
      it_xsfdata[] = p_it_output_data_xmloutput-xsfdata[].
      LOOP AT it_xsfdata INTO wa_xsfdata.
        IF sy-tabix = l_sytabix .
          TRANSFER wa_xsfdata TO l_xml_filename LENGTH l_last .
        ELSE.
          TRANSFER wa_xsfdata TO l_xml_filename .
        ENDIF.
        CLEAR: l_data,wa_xsfdata.
      ENDLOOP.
      REFRESH it_xsfdata .
      CLEAR: it_output_data,p_it_output_data_xmloutput.
    ELSE.
      MESSAGE i000 WITH text-007.
      LEAVE LIST-PROCESSING.
    ENDIF.
    CLOSE DATASET l_xml_filename.
But it has basically nothing to do with the code page because I am getting a complete XML file which I can successfully open in the browser after downloading it into my local machine. There are certain options with OPEN DATASET command for setting codepage etc. but I was unable to use them successfully.