xi graphical mapping ampersand

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

in my xi graphical message mapping I have a problem:

In the mapping I fill some target fields with constants which contain ampersands.

In the target message the ampersands (&) appear as "amp;" and this is not accepted by the following system.

The problem occurs as well by testing the mapping as in runtime.

Any idea, how to fix it?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards,

Fred

[Former Member]

Hi Chilla, Stefan and Bhavesh,

thanx a lot for the fast help.

Now i noticed, what a "xml-greenhorn" I am

Well, it seems that I have to find the mistake in the target system to accept the ampersands.

Best regards,

Fred

[henrique_pinto]

Probably the XML is being used as pure string instead of being parsed.

Try to parse it, using DOM for example (its easier) and the use Node.getValue() methode.

It should return the string without escaped chars.

Regards,

Henrique.

[Former Member]

Hi,

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/XML/xml_escape_chars.htm

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html

If you are doign the FCC in File adapter then we have escape sequence to handle

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm

Regards

Chilla

[Former Member]

Hi Stefan,

the error is in the target system but the reason is the special character in the target message of the message mapping.

What do you mean by "& has to be escaped"?

The target system is an online product catalogue and with the mapping I create the xml-file, which is the base for this catalogue.

Thanx.

Regards,

Fred

[bhavesh_kantilal]

Fred,

& is an escape characters in XML .

and so, when you want & to be available inside some text in a valid XML , this & internally is stored as & amp ;

( space given here so that it is not escaped by the Forum editor )

This is XML standard and any valid XML will escape an & as above. Your target application should be able to handle this and would need to make changes as this is XML standards.

regards

Bhavesh

[stefan_grube]

I found this in Internet:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#C_12

& is not allowed in XML. It must be replaced with &

Stefan

[stefan_grube]

There is no posibility to fix it, as the error is in the target system.

& has to be escaped in an XML message, this is standard.

What is the target system?

Stefan

[Former Member]

Hi,

see

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/ee/bf9640dc522f28e10000000a1550b0/content.htm

Regards

Chilla