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ABAP Keyword Documentation → ABAP − Reference → Data Interfaces and Communication Interfaces → ABAP and XML → Transformations for XML → asXML - Canonical XML Representation → asXML - Mapping of ABAP Data Types →asXML - Mapping of Reference Variables and Objects
Anonymous data objects and instances of classes (objects) are addressed in ABAP using references in reference variables only. The associated asXML format consists of
The reference between the reference elements and the object elements is made using an XML reference mechanism, where a referenced object in the same XML data is identified by a key. The dynamic type of the reference variables for the object elements under heap is specified when serialization takes place, so that deserialization is unambiguous.
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Example
See asXML, Mapping of Objects.