Leading zeros getting removed in xml output

Hi All,

I have a field in my entityset LIFNR (defined with standard data element of char type) . The problem I am facing is if there is value starting with 0's say"0000008" , in the xml output its shown as "8". Its removing the leading zero's while showing in xml.

I checked in debugging mode , the value in the internal table et_entityset , there its showing the value along with zero's but in the xml output in removes them. Please find the attached screenshots for the same. (One more screenshot is in reply to this thread since it does not allow more then 3 attachments)

Regards

Amber