[DDI-users] Automatic generation of variable-level metadatafromSAS/SPSS files

[Wendy Thomas]

I've had nice results from the SDA XCONVERT from SPSS files. They have
recently expanded the length of what can go in a variable label and when
it gets transfered to the <txt> tag. This value can be reset in the
command line if needed.

wendy

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Daniel Lee wrote:

> For SPSS users, you will find a good script to export SPSS data to XML format here:
>
> http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/SampleScripts.htm
>
> There are two depending upon the version of SPSS you have:
>
> 1. Export content of data editor to XML format.sbs
> 2. Export content of data editor to XML format v2.sbs
>
> While I haven't yet transformed the resulting XML into anything DDI-Compliant, this script helps transform SPSS data files into XML files - which is a start.
>
> Daniel Lee
> Toronto
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