XML output in smartform

Hello,
My requirement is to create xml file from a smartform and iam able to do that fine but iam not sure how to create XSL file to view the xml output.
Thanks for your help.

H Friend,
In Smartform, from Form Attributes -> Output Options -> Output Format you can choose either XSF format or XSD formt.
Please press F1 and read documentation.
Hope it will help you.
Regards
Krishnendu

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Hello Erki,
                  This is how i did it.
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       s_archive_params    TYPE arc_params,
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       INTERNAL_ERROR             = 2
       SEND_ERROR                 = 3
       USER_CANCELED              = 4
       OTHERS                     = 5              .
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MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
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Smartform xml output

Hello Frnds,
Actually I want to store the output of the smartformx xml output in a file.
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How & where to ser port type FILE.
Thanks & Regards

Hi ,
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smartform output
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Upload XML output into DMS

Hello all,
             I have generated an XML output through Smartforms. Now I need to load this file into DMS . Please let me know how I can achieve this.
Thanks,
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check this code and use it...
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data: STREAMFACTORY type ref to if_ixml_stream_factory.
data: ISTREAM type ref to if_ixml_istream.
data: DOCUMENT type ref to if_ixml_document.
data: PARSER type ref to if_ixml_parser.
data: LV_FILE_URL type rlgrap-filename.
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types: begin of XML_LINE,
        DATA(256) type x,
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types: begin of TY_HEADER,
         CUST_NAME(20)     type c,
         CARD_NO(20)       type c,
         TAX_AMOUNT(10)    type c,
         TOTAL_AMOUNT(10) type c,
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types: begin of TY_ITEM,
         ITEM_NO(4)      type n,
         ITEM_ID(20)     type c,
         ITEM_TITLE(50) type c,
         ITEM_QTY(10)    type c,
         ITEM_UPRICE(10) type c,
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data: GV_HEADER type TY_HEADER.
data: GT_ITEM   type standard table of TY_ITEM   with header line.
data: XML_TABLE      type table of XML_LINE,
      XML_TABLE_SIZE type i.
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Smartform XML output stored in which table?

Hi Folks,
I wanted to know the table where SAP stores the XML output of a Smartform...
If not tables , please let me know where the output is stored....
Thanks
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Hello Reddy,
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Report XML output fail to load into .RTF layout [EBS r12]

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