User Guide

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Output Managem

ent System

As you may notice, a simple, small table produces a substantial amount of XML.

That’s partly because the XML contains some information not readily apparent in

the origina

l table, some information that might not even be available in the original

table, and a certain amount of redundancy.

 The table contents as they are (or would be) displayed in a pivot table in the

Viewer are c

ontained in text attributes. For example:

<command te

xt="Frequencies" command="Frequencies"...>

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Text attributes can be affected by both output language and settings that affect the

display of v

ariable names/labels and values/value labels. In this example, the

text attribute value will differ depending on the output language, whereas the

command attribute value remains the same regardless of output language.

 Wherever variables or values of variables are used in row or column labels, the

XML will co

ntain a text attribute and one or more additional attribute values.

For example:

...<categ

ory t ext="Female" label="Female" string="f" varName="gender">

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For a numeric variable, there would be a number attribute instead of a string

attribute

.Thelabel attribute is present only if the variable or values have defined

labels.

 The <cell> elements that contain cell values for numbers will contain the text

attribute and one or more additional attribute values. For example: