[DDI-users] How to code repeated elements? (Graham Stark)

[Sanda Ionescu]

Hello, again.
I just thought of another way to do this markup.
It's more economical, but probably a lot harder to automate. The links will 
work, though.

<var ID="V1" name="">
<qstn><preQTxt ID="P1">
I am going to read out some words and phrases that have been used about
the political parties. Regardless of which party you would vote for, please
say in each case whether you think the word or phrase is true or not true
of Party A/Party B/Party C<Link refs="L1 L2 L3"/></preQTxt><qstnLit 
ID="L1"> <Link refs="P1"/>Understands the problems ordinary people face in 
today's world</qstnLit></qstn>
</var>
<var ID="V2" name="">
<qstn ><qstnLit ID="L2"><Link refs="P1"/> Shares my values</qstnLit></qstn>
</var>
<var ID="V3" name="">
<qstn ><qstnLit ID="L3"> <Link refs="P1"/>Is honest and 
principled</qstnLit></qstn>
</var>


variable groups could also be created, as shown in my previous example.
Sanda.

Sanda Ionescu,
Research Associate
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
The University of Michigan
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Ann Arbor, MI 48106

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>    1. How to code repeated elements? (Graham Stark)
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>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:12:22 +0000
>From: Graham Stark <grahams at web-ideas.com>
>Subject: [DDI-users] How to code repeated elements?
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>Hi,
>       could someone give me some guidance?
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>I'm trying to work out how to code a repeated set of questions like:
>
>"I am going to read out some words and phrases that have been used about
>the political parties. Regardless of which party you would vote for, please
>say in each case whether you think the word or phrase is true or not true
>of  Party A/Party B/Party C
>
>i)    Understands the problems ordinary people face in today's world
>ii)   Shares my values
>iii)  Is honest and principled
>[ etc ]
>
>What's the DDI idiom for this? It seems to me that some combination of
>vargrps and moving the qstn elements outside the variables should do it,
>but it's not clear to me exactly what I should be writing. Can anyone point
>me to an example? Or is it simpler to just write vars that repeat everything?
>
>thanks,
>
>Graham
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