topic Hierarchial XML in ODS and Base Reporting

Hierarchial XML

Virpi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:40:07 GMT

Hi

I'm supposed to write hierarchial XML from SAS 9.1.3. The format of the XML file has to be certain.

How can this hiererchial XML be produced? Would writing new tagset be the best possible way? When I tried to create the hierarchies on data-step, the created child element didn't come out to the XML file...
Perhaps I should use data _null_ and put into file for all of the data?

Re: Hierarchial XML

sbb — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:44:48 GMT

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Re: Hierarchial XML

Virpi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:48:46 GMT

Actually it was best to be done with data-step: creating the hierarchy into one variable and then writing to a file with libname statement.

Re: Hierarchial XML

sbb — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:13:22 GMT

If at SAS 9.2, consider the XML engine to do the heavy lifting for you. Consider other DOC-related and references available at the SAS support http://support.sas.com/ website.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

SAS 9.1.3 XML LIBNAME Engine: User's Guide
http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/xmlengine/sxle913/usersguide913.htm

What's New in the SAS 9.2 XML LIBNAME Engine
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/engxml/61740/HTML/default/engxmlwhatsnew902.htm

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Re: Hierarchial XML

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:22:25 GMT

Hi:
Remember that the ability to create an XML file from a SAS dataset using an XML Map is still "pre-production" in SAS 9.2 -- because it requires the XML92 engine, as described here:
http://support.sas.com/kb/33/793.html

cynthia