IngentaConnect XML for SAS programmers

Author: Pratter, Frederick¹

Source: Pharmaceutical Programming, Volume 2, Number 1, August 2009 , pp. 34-40(7)

Abstract:

XML (the eXtensible Markup Language) is an open standard for the definition, transmission, validation and interpretation of data. The standard was developed by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) in order to provide a simple and efficient way to manage self-documenting data files. SAS^® software includes a number of useful tools for creating and parsing XML data. These include: (1) the XML libname engine, used to import and export documents in XML format into or from a SAS dataset, optionally using an XMLMap. The new XML92 engine now supports XML Maps on output as well as input; (2) the XML Mapper application is a graphical interface to analyse the structure of an XML document or an XML schema and generate XML syntax for the XMLMap; (3) the ODS MARKUP output destination is used to create XML from SAS output; ODS MARKUP creates but does not read XML documents. This paper will introduce these concepts and present some brief examples of each, including some of the new features available in SAS 9.2.

Keywords: SAS; XML; ODS

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1179/175709209X12494616927586

Affiliations: 1: Computer Science/Multimedia Studies Program, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, USA

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XML for SAS® programmers

XML for SAS^® programmers