What does it do? In the statistic method> or instance method> called from an ST program, the attributes writer> and reader> can be used to access the current XML stream where the serialization or deserialization is currently taking place. The called method meth> must have an optional parameter with the reference type IF_SXML_WRITER> or IF_SXML_READER>, depending on the direction of transformation. The name of this parameter can be specified after the writer> or reader> attributes. In serialization, the p_writer> parameter is passed a reference to the current writer stream. In deserialization, the parameter of type p_reader> is passed a reference to the current reader stream. In the method meth>, these parameters can be used to work with the XML stream.