Abap ST deserialization

[Former Member]

Hi there i have read now a lot of things about ST but still i don't grasp certain concept.

I have tho following (simplified) XML and Datastructure:

TYPES: BEGIN OF test,
  clsname TYPE string,
  source TYPE stringtab,
  END OF test.
DATA tab TYPE zst_t_test..
DATA str TYPE string.
str =
'<classes>' &&
'<class name="zcl_umap_exception_object" isException="false">' &&
'<definition>' &&
'abc' &&
  '</definition>' &&
'<publicSection>' &&
'class zcl_umap_exception_object definition INHERITING FROM ZCL_UMAP_CLASS_OBJECT.' &&
'</publicSection>' &&
'<privateSection>' &&
'private section.' &&
'</privateSection>' &&
'</class>' &&
'</classes>'.

and what i want to achieve is that everything is put into table source. but somehow that doesn't work. i am using this transformation:

<?sap.transform simple?>
<tt:transform xmlns:tt="http://www.sap.com/transformation-templates" xmlns:ddic="http://www.sap.com/abapxml/types/dictionary" xmlns:def="http://www.sap.com/abapxml/types/defined">
  <tt:root name="ROOT" type="ddic:ZST_T_TEST"/>
  <tt:template>
    <classes>
      <tt:loop ref=".ROOT">
        <class>
          <tt:attribute name="name" value-ref="CLSNAME"/>
            <definition>
              <tt:value ref="$ref.SOURCE"/>
              </definition>
          <tt:loop name="b" ref="SOURCE">
            <publicSection>
              <tt:value ref="$b"/>
            </publicSection>
          </tt:loop>
          <tt:loop name="b" ref="SOURCE">
            <privateSection>
              <tt:value ref="$b"/>
            </privateSection>
          </tt:loop>
        </class>
      </tt:loop>
    </classes>
  </tt:template>
</tt:transform>

first thing that really irritates me is that the syntax check says "type ... is not atomic" for the <definitions> tag. so how to read that specific value?

Next even when i put a loop around <definition> the loop of the <publicSection> is overwriting all previous entries, same for the loop of <privtaeSection>

And worse in my real XML <publicSection itself can contain lots of attributes and other stuff which i have to loop over as well.

so the Questions is: How can i append everything to just on table?

Regards

[Former Member]

Ok problem solved, anyone stumbling about the same issue, use assign and read..