Effect The command tt:read enables you to read a value of the XML
inbound stream into a variable or a
parameter :
You use variable to specify the variable or a parameter into
which the value is read. The same applies to the attributes map ,
minLength , and maxLength plus xsd-type as to the
statement tt:value (however
tt:read always ignores minLength ).
The other attributes are used to specify the expected type. In statement
tt:read , only elementary ABAP types can be specified, which can
partly be generic. The syntax of this is the same as for statement
tt:type . The value read must match the
specified type and the value must be in the correct ABAP value range.
Otherwise an exception is raised
Serialization The tt:read command has no effect in serializations.
Deserialization If no type conflict occurs, the variable or parameter is set to the
value of the current position in the inbound stream (after map if
applicable). Depending on the type of the variable or parameter, a
mapping takes place in accordance with the
asXML format .
Example Deserialization of a value into a variable.
<(><<)>tt:transform
xmlns:tt="http://www.sap.com/transformation-templates">
tt:root name="ROOT"/
tt:variable name="VARI"/
<(><<)>tt:template>
<(><<)>X>
tt:read var="VARI" type="I" /
<(><<)>/X>
tt:assign to-ref="ROOT" var="VARI"/
<(><<)>/tt:template>
/tt:transform
If the XML fragment in question is X 333 /X ,
then, after deserialization, the data object bound to the data root ROOT has the value 333 due to the assignment using
tt:assign .
Documentation extract taken from SAP system, � Copyright SAP AG. All rights reserved