Depth of Data Type

[former_member2132]

What is the depth to which we can insert subelements in a SAP XI data type.

The stucture of my data type is

Customer List

->Customer Number

->->Customer Name

->->->First Name

->->->Last Name

Proceeding further what can be the depth of the message. Hope you guys get what I mean.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This will be the same as depth of XML by W3C standards, I have created depth of 40 simply because I wanted to know... I got fed up and doing this in the XI editor is painful.

FYI from SAP help:

If a single substructure becomes too complicated, you are recommended to use multiple smaller data types instead, especially when these can then be used elsewhere. To reference other data types, choose Input Help in the list box for the type column.

sincerely,

--NM

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[Former Member]

Hi,

In my view the depth of the data structure must not have limit. But What is the use of going too much in depth. If we see an complex IDoc structure, the depth is limited and goin too much in depth might effect performance while accessing filed.

I think level 2-3 level is good. But increasing level after that will be a performance issue.

Regards,

Ramesh P

Message was edited by:

Ramesh Parashivamurthy