<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Test> <Set> <Header> <dataset formaat="v1" status="production" naam="needthisoutputfromsas.xml"/> <date>12-10-2016</date> <source>mycompany</source> </Header> <Record> <Birthdate pattern="dd-MM-yyyy">21-10-1945</Birthdate> <Gender>V</Gender> <Postalcode>1234</Postalcode> <Data> <Key>1</Key> </Data> </Record> <Record> <Birthdate pattern="dd-MM-yyyy">11-02-1963</Birthdate> <Gender>V</Gender> <Postalcode>4321</Postalcode> <Data> <Key>2</Key> </Data> </Record> <Record> <Birthdate pattern="dd-MM-yyyy">26-05-1978</Birthdate> <Gender>V</Gender> <Postalcode>2345</Postalcode> <Data> <Key>3</Key> </Data> </Record> </Set> </Test>
Hello,
I hope someone can help me generating a correct .map for export my sas dataset into the above.xml example. The auto_gen function in sas XML mapper makes all these tables, but I can ouput only one, right?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- ############################################################ --> <!-- 2016-11-29T21:53:10 --> <!-- SAS XML Libname Engine Map --> <!-- Generated by XML Mapper, 904000.0.0.20130522190000_v940 --> <!-- ############################################################ --> <!-- ### Validation report ### --> <!-- ############################################################ --> <!-- XMLMap validation completed successfully. --> <!-- ############################################################ --> <SXLEMAP name="Test" version="2.1"> <!-- ############################################################ --> <OUTPUT> <HEADING> <ATTRIBUTE name="description" value=""/> </HEADING> <TABLEREF name="Record"/> </OUTPUT> <NAMESPACES count="0"/> <!-- ############################################################ --> <TABLE name="Record"> <TABLE-PATH syntax="XPath">/Test/Set/Record</TABLE-PATH> <COLUMN name="Birthdate"> <PATH syntax="XPath">/Test/Set/Record/Birthdate</PATH> <TYPE>numeric</TYPE> <DATATYPE>date</DATATYPE> <FORMAT width="10">IS8601DA</FORMAT> <INFORMAT width="10">IS8601DA</INFORMAT> </COLUMN> <COLUMN name="Gender"> <PATH syntax="XPath">/Test/Set/Record/Gender</PATH> <TYPE>character</TYPE> <DATATYPE>string</DATATYPE> <LENGTH>1</LENGTH> </COLUMN> <COLUMN name="Postalcode"> <PATH syntax="XPath">/Test/Set/Record/Postalcode</PATH> <TYPE>numeric</TYPE> <DATATYPE>integer</DATATYPE> </COLUMN> <COLUMN name="Key"> <PATH syntax="XPath">/Test/Set/Record/Data/Key</PATH> <TYPE>numeric</TYPE> <DATATYPE>integer</DATATYPE> </COLUMN> </TABLE> </SXLEMAP>
Thanks in advance,
Brendy Wauben
/********************************************************************************
* Generated by XML Mapper, 904000.0.0.20130522190000_v940
********************************************************************************/
filename client 'C:\mysas\needthisoutputfromsas.xml';
filename SXLEMAP 'C:\mysas\out.map';
libname client xmlv2 xmlmap=SXLEMAP ;*access=READONLY;
libname out "C:\mysas\out";
* local files;
data client.Record;
set out.mydataset ;
run;
Hi:
I suspect one of your issues will come from the DATE INFORMAT. If you look here, http://support.sas.com/techsup/notes/v8/11/206.html the IS8601DA informat is expecting year to be first. So I would change that to ddmmyy or anydtdte for the informat (and probably the format too.)
Also, if you are READING the XML and importing it into a SAS dataset, I would expect to see this on the set:
set client.record; for the INPUT, as shown below.
I did have to change the INFORMAT and also changed the FORMAT for the date field.
cynthia
Hi:
I suspect one of your issues will come from the DATE INFORMAT. If you look here, http://support.sas.com/techsup/notes/v8/11/206.html the IS8601DA informat is expecting year to be first. So I would change that to ddmmyy or anydtdte for the informat (and probably the format too.)
Also, if you are READING the XML and importing it into a SAS dataset, I would expect to see this on the set:
set client.record; for the INPUT, as shown below.
I did have to change the INFORMAT and also changed the FORMAT for the date field.
cynthia
Thank you Cynthia for your comments.
You made my day
Your XML doesn't look too difficult. Maybe you could use DATA STEP to get it directly .
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