Using the XML returned by XI to populate table in Web Dynpro UI

Question

Hi,
In Web Dynpro,I have a scenario where i have to generate reports. For this, I enter the "Customer number", "Date" & "Item No" in 'Generate report' page  and hit the "submit" button. These details are sent as XML to XI which interacts with the ABAP R/3 system, performs the search and returns the search results as an XML
Now, I want to display search results contained in this XML by populating it in a table.
From, the point where the XML is returned by XI, could you please tell me the step by step process to populate this XML in a table. Please include code, if any.
Kindly help.

Answer 1

Hello Sandeep,
Create context node with following strucure:
<i>
result
-CustomerNumber
-ItemNumber
-Material
-OrderDate</i>
Create data handler:
public class XIDataHandler extends DefaultHandler {
     private String lastAttribute;
     private IWDNodeElement newElement;
     public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String rawName, Attributes atts) {
          if ("Result".equals(localName)) {
               newElement = wdContext.createResultElement();
               wdContext.nodeResult().addElement(newElement);
          } else {
               if(null!=newElement)
                    lastAttribute = localName.trim();
     public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String rawName) {
          if ("Result".equals(localName)) {
               newElement = null;
               lastAttribute = null;
     public void characters(char[] data, int off, int length) {
          if(null!=newElement && null!=lastAttribute) {
               final String value = new String(data, off, length).trim();
               if(!"".equals(value)) {
                    newElement.setAttributeValue(lastAttribute, value);
And parse XML in appropriate place within your application:
try {
     SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
     SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
     //Loading XML from string (XI_DOCUMENT), change if source differs
     StringReader sr = new StringReader(XI_DOCUMENT.trim());
     InputSource is = new InputSource(sr);
     parser.parse(is, new XIDataHandler());
} catch (Exception e) {
     final StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
     final PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
     e.printStackTrace(pw);
     wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportException(sw.toString(), true);
Create table and table columns and map your context to it.
Best regards, Maksim rashchynski.