SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

Chapter 10. Simple Transformations

In this chapter, we will see the following recipes for simple transformations:

• Creating simple transformations
• Creating transformations for structures and calling them in programs
• Creating transformations for internal tables
• Generating transformations for dictionary table types
• Downloading into Excel made easy using simple transformations

Introduction

This chapter explores useful recipes related to simple transformations. We will start with a brief overview of simple transformations and their structure. We will also discuss the process of the conversion of ABAP data into an XML stream (serialization) and the reverse process (deserialization).

We will start with a simple recipe in which we create a simple transformation ...