XML structure inside WS string response

Hi all,
I have a PI scenario and I can find a solution.
The scenario is a ABAP PROXY that consume a WS, this is no problem, the problem is that the web service returns a string parameter, and inside the string parameter there is a XML structure.
My doubt is, how can mapping it to get the response in a structured data type instead of a string??
Thanks a lot
Raú

Hi ,
Is the return type is an XML structure? Then use java mapping using DOM parser to extract the string from response. Then the mapping program can generate the required target structure from the string.
you can if possible let the forum members know, the response xml message and the structure of target XML as per your requirement. Finally also the version of PI you are working is also important as java mapping procedure is different for PI7.0 and PI 7.1.
As Stefan has pointed out without java mapping it will be almost impossible to extract the target XML from String. Still you can try out with XSLT mapping, but I don't think that will be easy task to do. Java mapping is the correct procedure to solve your problem. Finally forum members will be able to assist you if you provide complete source and target XML structure alog with sample string response. you can reuse java mapping code for multiple interfaces within same SWCV. The part or module which will be calling the common code with different input parameters will vary accross interfaces depending on your need.
regards
Anupam
Edited by: anupamsap on Sep 29, 2011 1:55 PM
Edited by: anupamsap on Sep 29, 2011 2:21 PM

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