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11 @node SPSS Viewer File Format
12 @chapter SPSS Viewer File Format
14 SPSS Viewer or @file{.spv} files, here called SPV files, are written
15 by SPSS 16 and later to represent the contents of its output editor.
16 This chapter documents the format, based on examination of a corpus of
17 about 8,000 files from a variety of sources. This description is
18 detailed enough to both read and write SPV files.
20 SPSS 15 and earlier versions instead use @file{.spo} files, which have
21 a completely different output format based on the Microsoft Compound
22 Document Format. This format is not documented here.
24 An SPV file is a Zip archive that can be read with @command{zipinfo}
25 and @command{unzip} and similar programs. The final member in the Zip
26 archive is the @dfn{manifest}, a file named
27 @file{META-INF/MANIFEST.MF}. This structure makes SPV files resemble
28 Java ``JAR'' files (and ODF files), but whereas a JAR manifest
29 contains a sequence of colon-delimited key/value pairs, an SPV
30 manifest contains the string @samp{allowPivoting=true}, without a
31 new-line. PSPP uses this string to identify an SPV file; it is
32 invariant across the corpus.@footnote{SPV files always begin with the
33 7-byte sequence 50 4b 03 04 14 00 08, but this is not a useful magic
34 number because most Zip archives start the same way.}@footnote{SPSS
35 writes @file{META-INF/MANIFEST.MF} to every SPV file, but it does not
36 read it or even require it to exist, so using different contents,
37 e.g.@: as @samp{allowingPivot=false} has no effect.}
39 The rest of the members in an SPV file's Zip archive fall into two
40 categories: @dfn{structure} and @dfn{detail} members. Structure
41 member names take the form with @file{outputViewer@var{number}.xml} or
42 @file{outputViewer@var{number}_heading.xml}, where @var{number} is an
43 10-digit decimal number. Each of these members represents some kind
44 of output item (a table, a heading, a block of text, etc.) or a group
45 of them. The member whose output goes at the beginning of the
46 document is numbered 0, the next member in the output is numbered 1,
49 Structure members contain XML. This XML is sometimes self-contained,
50 but it often references detail members in the Zip archive, which are
54 @item @file{@var{prefix}_table.xml} and @file{@var{prefix}_tableData.bin}
55 @itemx @file{@var{prefix}_lightTableData.bin}
56 The structure of a table plus its data. Older SPV files pair a
57 @file{@var{prefix}_table.xml} file that describes the table's
58 structure with a binary @file{@var{prefix}_tableData.bin} file that
59 gives its data. Newer SPV files (the majority of those in the corpus)
60 instead include a single @file{@var{prefix}_lightTableData.bin} file
61 that incorporates both into a single binary format.
63 @item @file{@var{prefix}_warning.xml} and @file{@var{prefix}_warningData.bin}
64 @itemx @file{@var{prefix}_lightWarningData.bin}
65 Same format used for tables, with a different name.
67 @item @file{@var{prefix}_notes.xml} and @file{@var{prefix}_notesData.bin}
68 @itemx @file{@var{prefix}_lightNotesData.bin}
69 Same format used for tables, with a different name.
71 @item @file{@var{prefix}_chartData.bin} and @file{@var{prefix}_chart.xml}
72 The structure of a chart plus its data. Charts do not have a
75 @item @file{@var{prefix}_Imagegeneric.png}
76 @itemx @file{@var{prefix}_PastedObjectgeneric.png}
77 @itemx @file{@var{prefix}_imageData.bin}
78 A PNG image referenced by an @code{object} element (in the first two
79 cases) or an @code{image} element (in the final case). @xref{SPV
80 Structure object and image Elements}.
82 @item @file{@var{prefix}_pmml.scf}
83 @itemx @file{@var{prefix}_stats.scf}
84 @item @file{@var{prefix}_model.xml}
85 Not yet investigated. The corpus contains few examples.
88 The @file{@var{prefix}} in the names of the detail members is
89 typically an 11-digit decimal number that increases for each item,
90 tending to skip values. Older SPV files use different naming
91 conventions for detail members. Structure member refer to detail
92 members by name, and so their exact names do not matter to readers as
93 long as they are unique.
95 SPSS tolerates corrupted Zip archives that Zip reader libraries tend
96 to reject. These can be fixed up with @command{zip -FF}.
99 * SPV Structure Member Format::
100 * SPV Light Detail Member Format::
101 * SPV Legacy Detail Member Binary Format::
102 * SPV Legacy Detail Member XML Format::
105 @node SPV Structure Member Format
106 @section Structure Member Format
108 A structure member lays out the high-level structure for a group of
109 output items such as heading, tables, and charts. Structure members
110 do not include the details of tables and charts but instead refer to
111 them by their member names.
113 Structure members' XML files claim conformance with a collection of
114 XML Schemas. These schemas are distributed, under a nonfree license,
115 with SPSS binaries. Fortunately, the schemas are not necessary to
116 understand the structure members. The schemas can even
117 be deceptive because they document elements and attributes that are
118 not in the corpus and do not document elements and attributes that are
119 commonly found in the corpus.
121 Structure members use a different XML namespace for each schema, but
122 these namespaces are not entirely consistent. In some SPV files, for
123 example, the @code{viewer-tree} schema is associated with namespace
124 @indicateurl{http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer-tree} and in others with
125 @indicateurl{http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer/viewer-tree} (note the
126 additional @file{viewer/}). Under either name, the schema URIs are
127 not resolvable to obtain the schemas themselves.
129 One may ignore all of the above in interpreting a structure member.
130 The actual XML has a simple and straightforward form that does not
131 require a reader to take schemas or namespaces into account. A
132 structure member's root is @code{heading} element, which contains
133 @code{heading} or @code{container} elements (or a mix), forming a
134 tree. In turn, @code{container} holds a @code{label} and one more
135 child, usually @code{text} or @code{table}.
137 The following sections document the elements found in structure
138 members in a context-free grammar-like fashion. Consider the
139 following example, which specifies the attributes and content for the
140 @code{container} element:
144 :visibility=(visible | hidden)
145 :page-break-before=(always)?
146 :text-align=(left | center)?
148 => label (table | container_text | graph | model | object | image | tree)
151 Each attribute specification begins with @samp{:} followed by the
152 attribute's name. If the attribute's value has an easily specified
153 form, then @samp{=} and its description follows the name. Finally, if
154 the attribute is optional, the specification ends with @samp{?}. The
155 following value specifications are defined:
158 @item (@var{a} | @var{b} | @dots{})
159 One of the listed literal strings. If only one string is listed, it
160 is the only acceptable value. If @code{OTHER} is listed, then any
161 string not explicitly listed is also accepted.
164 Either @code{true} or @code{false}.
167 A floating-point number followed by a unit, e.g.@: @code{10pt}. Units
168 in the corpus include @code{in} (inch), @code{pt} (points, 72/inch),
169 @code{px} (``device-independent pixels'', 96/inch), and @code{cm}. If
170 the unit is omitted then points should be assumed. The number and
171 unit may be separated by white space.
173 The corpus also includes localized names for units. A reader must
174 understand these to properly interpret the dimension:
178 @code{인치}, @code{pol.}, @code{cala}, @code{cali}
188 A floating-point number.
194 A color in one of the forms @code{#@var{rr}@var{gg}@var{bb}} or
195 @code{@var{rr}@var{gg}@var{bb}}, or the string @code{transparent}, or
196 one of the standard Web color names.
199 @item ref @var{element}
200 @itemx ref(@var{elem1} | @var{elem2} | @dots{})
201 The name from the @code{id} attribute in some element. If one or more
202 elements are named, the name must refer to one of those elements,
203 otherwise any element is acceptable.
206 All elements have an optional @code{id} attribute. If present, its
207 value must be unique. In practice many elements are assigned
208 @code{id} attributes that are never referenced.
210 The content specification for an element supports the following
217 @item @var{a} @var{b}
218 @var{a} followed by @var{b}.
220 @item @var{a} | @var{b} | @var{c}
221 One of @var{a} or @var{b} or @var{c}.
224 Zero or one instances of @var{a}.
227 Zero or more instances of @var{a}.
230 One or more instances of @var{a}.
232 @item (@var{subexpression})
233 Grouping for a subexpression.
242 Element and attribute names are sometimes suffixed by another name in
243 square brackets to distinguish different uses of the same name. For
244 example, structure XML has two @code{text} elements, one inside
245 @code{container}, the other inside @code{pageParagraph}. The former
246 is defined as @code{text[container_text]} and referenced as
247 @code{container_text}, the latter defined as
248 @code{text[pageParagraph_text]} and referenced as
249 @code{pageParagraph_text}.
251 This language is used in the PSPP source code for parsing structure
252 and detail XML members. Refer to
253 @file{src/output/spv/structure-xml.grammar} and
254 @file{src/output/spv/detail-xml.grammar} for the full grammars.
256 The following example shows the contents of a typical structure member
257 for a @cmd{DESCRIPTIVES} procedure. A real structure member is not
258 indented. This example also omits most attributes, all XML namespace
259 information, and the CSS from the embedded HTML:
262 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
264 <label>Output</label>
265 <heading commandName="Descriptives">
266 <label>Descriptives</label>
269 <text commandName="Descriptives" type="title">
271 <![CDATA[<head><style type="text/css">...</style></head><BR>Descriptives]]>
275 <container visibility="hidden">
277 <table commandName="Descriptives" subType="Notes" type="note">
279 <dataPath>00000000001_lightNotesData.bin</dataPath>
284 <label>Descriptive Statistics</label>
285 <table commandName="Descriptives" subType="Descriptive Statistics"
288 <dataPath>00000000002_lightTableData.bin</dataPath>
297 * SPV Structure heading Element::
298 * SPV Structure label Element::
299 * SPV Structure container Element::
300 * SPV Structure text Element (Inside @code{container})::
301 * SPV Structure html Element::
302 * SPV Structure table Element::
303 * SPV Structure graph Element::
304 * SPV Structure model Element::
305 * SPV Structure object and image Elements::
306 * SPV Structure tree Element::
307 * SPV Structure Path Elements::
308 * SPV Structure pageSetup Element::
309 * SPV Structure @code{text} Element (Inside @code{pageParagraph})::
312 @node SPV Structure heading Element
313 @subsection The @code{heading} Element
316 heading[root_heading]
322 => label pageSetup? (container | heading)*
327 :visibility[heading_visibility]=(collapsed)?
330 => label (container | heading)*
333 A @code{heading} represents a tree of content that appears in an
334 output viewer window. It contains a @code{label} text string that is
335 shown in the outline view ordinarily followed by content containers or
336 further nested (sub)-sections of output. Unlike heading elements in
337 HTML and other common document formats, which precede the content that
338 they head, @code{heading} contains the elements that appear below the
341 The root of a structure member is a special @code{heading}. The
342 direct children of the root @code{heading} elements in all structure
343 members in an SPV file are siblings. That is, the root @code{heading}
344 in all of the structure members conceptually represent the same node.
345 The root heading's @code{label} is ignored (see @pxref{SPV Structure
346 label Element}). The root heading in the first structure member in
347 the Zip file may contain a @code{pageSetup} element.
349 The schema implies that any @code{heading} may contain a sequence of
350 any number of @code{heading} and @code{container} elements. This does
351 not work for the root @code{heading} in practice, which must actually
352 contain exactly one @code{container} or @code{heading} child element.
353 Furthermore, if the root heading's child is a @code{heading}, then the
354 structure member's name must end in @file{_heading.xml}; if it is a
355 @code{container} child, then it must not.
357 The following attributes have been observed on both document root and
358 nested @code{heading} elements.
360 @defvr {Attribute} creator-version
361 The version of the software that created this SPV file. A string of
362 the form @code{xxyyzzww} represents software version xx.yy.zz.ww,
363 e.g.@: @code{21000001} is version 21.0.0.1. Trailing pairs of zeros
364 are sometimes omitted, so that @code{21}, @code{210000}, and
365 @code{21000000} are all version 21.0.0.0 (and the corpus contains all
366 three of those forms).
370 The following attributes have been observed on document root
371 @code{heading} elements only:
373 @defvr {Attribute} @code{creator}
374 The directory in the file system of the software that created this SPV
378 @defvr {Attribute} @code{creation-date-time}
379 The date and time at which the SPV file was written, in a
380 locale-specific format, e.g.@: @code{Friday, May 16, 2014 6:47:37 PM
381 PDT} or @code{lunedì 17 marzo 2014 3.15.48 CET} or even @code{Friday,
382 December 5, 2014 5:00:19 o'clock PM EST}.
385 @defvr {Attribute} @code{lockReader}
386 Whether a reader should be allowed to edit the output. The possible
387 values are @code{true} and @code{false}. The value @code{false} is by
391 @defvr {Attribute} @code{schemaLocation}
392 This is actually an XML Namespace attribute. A reader may ignore it.
396 The following attributes have been observed only on nested
397 @code{heading} elements:
399 @defvr {Attribute} @code{commandName}
400 A locale-invariant identifier for the command that produced the
401 output, e.g.@: @code{Frequencies}, @code{T-Test}, @code{Non Par Corr}.
404 @defvr {Attribute} @code{visibility}
405 If this attribute is absent, the heading's content is expanded in the
406 outline view. If it is set to @code{collapsed}, it is collapsed.
407 (This attribute is never present in a root @code{heading} because the
408 root node is always expanded when a file is loaded, even though the UI
409 can be used to collapse it interactively.)
412 @defvr {Attribute} @code{locale}
413 The locale used for output, in Windows format, which is similar to the
414 format used in Unix with the underscore replaced by a hyphen, e.g.@:
415 @code{en-US}, @code{en-GB}, @code{el-GR}, @code{sr-Cryl-RS}.
418 @defvr {Attribute} @code{olang}
419 The output language, e.g.@: @code{en}, @code{it}, @code{es},
420 @code{de}, @code{pt-BR}.
423 @node SPV Structure label Element
424 @subsection The @code{label} Element
430 Every @code{heading} and @code{container} holds a @code{label} as its
431 first child. The label text is what appears in the outline pane of
432 the GUI's viewer window. PSPP also puts it into the outline of PDF
433 output. The label text doesn't appear in the output itself.
435 The text in @code{label} describes what it labels, often by naming the
436 statistical procedure that was executed, e.g.@: ``Frequencies'' or
437 ``T-Test''. Labels are often very generic, especially within a
438 @code{container}, e.g.@: ``Title'' or ``Warnings'' or ``Notes''.
439 Label text is localized according to the output language, e.g.@: in
440 Italian a frequency table procedure is labeled ``Frequenze''.
442 The user can edit labels to be anything they want. The corpus
443 contains a few examples of empty labels, ones that contain no text,
444 probably as a result of user editing.
446 The root @code{heading} in an SPV file has a @code{label}, like every
447 @code{heading}. It normally contains ``Output'' but its content is
448 disregarded anyway. The user cannot edit it.
450 @node SPV Structure container Element
451 @subsection The @code{container} Element
455 :visibility=(visible | hidden)
456 :page-break-before=(always)?
457 :text-align=(left | center)?
459 => label (table | container_text | graph | model | object | image | tree)
462 A @code{container} serves to contain and label a @code{table},
463 @code{text}, or other kind of item.
465 This element has the following attributes.
467 @defvr {Attribute} @code{visibility}
468 Whether the container's content is displayed. ``Notes'' tables are
469 often hidden; other data is usually visible.
472 @defvr {Attribute} @code{text-align}
473 Alignment of text within the container. Observed with nested
474 @code{table} and @code{text} elements.
477 @defvr {Attribute} @code{width}
478 The width of the container, e.g.@: @code{1097px}.
481 All of the elements that nest inside @code{container} (except the
482 @code{label}) have the following optional attribute.
484 @defvr {Attribute} @code{commandName}
485 As on the @code{heading} element. The corpus contains one example
486 of where @code{commandName} is present but set to the empty string.
489 @node SPV Structure text Element (Inside @code{container})
490 @subsection The @code{text} Element (Inside @code{container})
494 :type[text_type]=(title | log | text | page-title)
500 This @code{text} element is nested inside a @code{container}. There
501 is a different @code{text} element that is nested inside a
502 @code{pageParagraph}.
504 This element has the following attributes.
506 @defvr {Attribute} @code{commandName}
507 @xref{SPV Structure container Element}. For output not specific to a
508 command, this is simply @code{log}.
511 @defvr {Attribute} @code{type}
512 The semantics of the text.
515 @defvr {Attribute} @code{creator-version}
516 As on the @code{heading} element.
519 @node SPV Structure html Element
520 @subsection The @code{html} Element
523 html :lang=(en) => TEXT
526 The element contains an HTML document as text (or, in practice, as
527 CDATA). In some cases, the document starts with @code{<html>} and
528 ends with @code{</html>}; in others the @code{html} element is
529 implied. Generally the HTML includes a @code{head} element with a CSS
530 stylesheet. The HTML body often begins with @code{<BR>}.
532 The HTML document uses only the following elements:
536 Sometimes, the document is enclosed with
537 @code{<html>}@dots{}@code{</html>}.
540 The HTML body often begins with @code{<BR>} and may contain it as well.
548 The attributes @code{face}, @code{color}, and @code{size} are
549 observed. The value of @code{color} takes one of the forms
550 @code{#@var{rr}@var{gg}@var{bb}} or @code{rgb (@var{r}, @var{g},
551 @var{b})}. The value of @code{size} is a number between 1 and 7,
555 The CSS in the corpus is simple. To understand it, a parser only
556 needs to be able to skip white space, @code{<!--}, and @code{-->}, and
557 parse style only for @code{p} elements. Only the following properties
562 In the form @code{@var{rr}@var{gg}@var{bb}}, e.g. @code{000000}, with
566 Either @code{bold} or @code{normal}.
569 Either @code{italic} or @code{normal}.
571 @item text-decoration
572 Either @code{underline} or @code{normal}.
575 A font name, commonly @code{Monospaced} or @code{SansSerif}.
578 Values claim to be in points, e.g.@: @code{14pt}, but the values are
579 actually in ``device-independent pixels'' (px), at 96/inch.
582 This element has the following attributes.
584 @defvr {Attribute} @code{lang}
585 This always contains @code{en} in the corpus.
588 @node SPV Structure table Element
589 @subsection The @code{table} Element
598 :displayFiltering=bool?
600 :orphanTolerance=int?
605 :type[table_type]=(table | note | warning)
606 => tableProperties? tableStructure
608 tableStructure => path? dataPath csvPath?
611 This element has the following attributes.
613 @defvr {Attribute} @code{commandName}
614 @xref{SPV Structure container Element}.
617 @defvr {Attribute} @code{type}
618 One of @code{table}, @code{note}, or @code{warning}.
621 @defvr {Attribute} @code{subType}
622 The locale-invariant command ID for the particular kind of output that
623 this table represents in the procedure. This can be the same as
624 @code{commandName} e.g.@: @code{Frequencies}, or different, e.g.@:
625 @code{Case Processing Summary}. Generic subtypes @code{Notes} and
626 @code{Warnings} are often used.
629 @defvr {Attribute} @code{tableId}
630 A number that uniquely identifies the table within the SPV file,
631 typically a large negative number such as @code{-4147135649387905023}.
634 @defvr {Attribute} @code{creator-version}
635 As on the @code{heading} element. In the corpus, this is only present
636 for version 21 and up and always includes all 8 digits.
639 @xref{SPV Detail Legacy Properties}, for details on the
640 @code{tableProperties} element.
642 @node SPV Structure graph Element
643 @subsection The @code{graph} Element
658 => dataPath? path csvPath?
661 This element represents a graph. The @code{dataPath} and @code{path}
662 elements name the Zip members that give the details of the graph.
663 Normally, both elements are present; there is only one counterexample
666 @code{csvPath} only appears in one SPV file in the corpus, for two
667 graphs. In these two cases, @code{dataPath}, @code{path}, and
668 @code{csvPath} all appear. These @code{csvPath} name Zip members with
669 names of the form @file{@var{number}_csv.bin}, where @var{number} is a
670 many-digit number and the same as the @code{csvFileIds}. The named
671 Zip members are CSV text files (despite the @file{.bin} extension).
672 The CSV files are encoded in UTF-8 and begin with a U+FEFF byte-order
675 @node SPV Structure model Element
676 @subsection The @code{model} Element
688 => ViZml? dataPath? path | pmmlContainerPath statsContainerPath
690 pmmlContainerPath => TEXT
692 statsContainerPath => TEXT
694 ViZml :viewName? => TEXT
697 This element represents a model. The @code{dataPath} and @code{path}
698 elements name the Zip members that give the details of the model.
699 Normally, both elements are present; there is only one counterexample
702 The details are unexplored. The @code{ViZml} element contains base-64
703 encoded text, that decodes to a binary format with some embedded text
704 strings, and @code{path} names an Zip member that contains XML.
705 Alternatively, @code{pmmlContainerPath} and @code{statsContainerPath}
706 name Zip members with @file{.scf} extension.
708 @node SPV Structure object and image Elements
709 @subsection The @code{object} and @code{image} Elements
714 :type[object_type]=(unknown)?
724 These two elements represent an image in PNG format. They are
725 equivalent and the corpus contains examples of both. The only
726 difference is the syntax: for @code{object}, the @code{uri} attribute
727 names the Zip member that contains a PNG file; for @code{image}, the
728 text of the inner @code{dataPath} element names the Zip member.
730 PSPP writes @code{object} in output but there is no strong reason to
733 The corpus only contains PNG image files.
735 @node SPV Structure tree Element
736 @subsection The @code{tree} Element
747 This element represents a tree. The @code{dataPath} and @code{path}
748 elements name the Zip members that give the details of the tree.
749 The details are unexplored.
751 @node SPV Structure Path Elements
752 @subsection Path Elements
762 These element contain the name of the Zip members that hold details
763 for a container. For tables:
767 When a ``light'' format is used, only @code{dataPath} is present, and
768 it names a @file{.bin} member of the Zip file that has @code{light} in
769 its name, e.g.@: @code{0000000001437_lightTableData.bin} (@pxref{SPV
770 Light Detail Member Format}).
773 When the legacy format is used, both are present. In this case,
774 @code{dataPath} names a Zip member with a legacy binary format that
775 contains relevant data (@pxref{SPV Legacy Detail Member Binary
776 Format}), and @code{path} names a Zip member that uses an XML format
777 (@pxref{SPV Legacy Detail Member XML Format}).
780 Graphs normally follow the legacy approach described above. The
781 corpus contains one example of a graph with @code{path} but not
782 @code{dataPath}. The reason is unexplored.
784 Models use @code{path} but not @code{dataPath}. @xref{SPV Structure
785 graph Element}, for more information.
787 These elements have no attributes.
789 @node SPV Structure pageSetup Element
790 @subsection The @code{pageSetup} Element
794 :initial-page-number=int?
795 :chart-size=(as-is | full-height | half-height | quarter-height | OTHER)?
796 :margin-left=dimension?
797 :margin-right=dimension?
798 :margin-top=dimension?
799 :margin-bottom=dimension?
800 :paper-height=dimension?
801 :paper-width=dimension?
802 :reference-orientation?
803 :space-after=dimension?
804 => pageHeader pageFooter
806 pageHeader => pageParagraph?
808 pageFooter => pageParagraph?
810 pageParagraph => pageParagraph_text
813 The @code{pageSetup} element has the following attributes.
815 @defvr {Attribute} @code{initial-page-number}
816 The page number to put on the first page of printed output. Usually
820 @defvr {Attribute} @code{chart-size}
821 One of the listed, self-explanatory chart sizes,
822 @code{quarter-height}, or a localization (!) of one of these (e.g.@:
823 @code{dimensione attuale}, @code{Wie vorgegeben}).
826 @defvr {Attribute} @code{margin-left}
827 @defvrx {Attribute} @code{margin-right}
828 @defvrx {Attribute} @code{margin-top}
829 @defvrx {Attribute} @code{margin-bottom}
830 Margin sizes, e.g.@: @code{0.25in}.
833 @defvr {Attribute} @code{paper-height}
834 @defvrx {Attribute} @code{paper-width}
838 @defvr {Attribute} @code{reference-orientation}
839 Indicates the orientation of the output page. Either @code{0deg}
840 (portrait) or @code{90deg} (landscape),
843 @defvr {Attribute} @code{space-after}
844 The amount of space between printed objects, typically @code{12pt}.
847 @node SPV Structure @code{text} Element (Inside @code{pageParagraph})
848 @subsection The @code{text} Element (Inside @code{pageParagraph})
851 text[pageParagraph_text] :type=(title | text) => TEXT
854 This @code{text} element is nested inside a @code{pageParagraph}. There
855 is a different @code{text} element that is nested inside a
858 The element is either empty, or contains CDATA that holds almost-XHTML
859 text: in the corpus, either an @code{html} or @code{p} element. It is
860 @emph{almost}-XHTML because the @code{html} element designates the
862 @indicateurl{http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer/viewer-tree} instead of
863 an XHTML namespace, and because the CDATA can contain substitution
864 variables. The following variables are supported:
869 The current date or time in the preferred format for the locale.
875 First-, second-, third-, or fourth-level heading.
881 Name of the output file.
887 @code{&[Page]} for the page number and @code{&[PageTitle]} for the
890 Typical contents (indented for clarity):
893 <html xmlns="http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer/viewer-tree">
896 <p style="text-align:right; margin-top: 0">Page &[Page]</p>
901 This element has the following attributes.
903 @defvr {Attribute} @code{type}
907 @node SPV Light Detail Member Format
908 @section Light Detail Member Format
910 This section describes the format of ``light'' detail @file{.bin}
911 members. These members have a binary format which we describe here in
912 terms of a context-free grammar using the following conventions:
915 @item NonTerminal @result{} @dots{}
916 Nonterminals have CamelCaps names, and @result{} indicates a
917 production. The right-hand side of a production is often broken
918 across multiple lines. Break points are chosen for aesthetics only
919 and have no semantic significance.
921 @item 00, 01, @dots{}, ff.
922 A bytes with a fixed value, written as a pair of hexadecimal digits.
924 @item i0, i1, @dots{}, i9, i10, i11, @dots{}
925 @itemx ib0, ib1, @dots{}, ib9, ib10, ib11, @dots{}
926 A 32-bit integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order,
927 respectively, with a fixed value, written in decimal. Prefixed by
928 @samp{i} for little-endian or @samp{ib} for big-endian.
934 A byte with value 0 or 1.
938 A 16-bit unsigned integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order,
943 A 32-bit unsigned integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order,
948 A 64-bit unsigned integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order,
952 A 64-bit IEEE floating-point number.
955 A 32-bit IEEE floating-point number.
959 A 32-bit unsigned integer, in little-endian or big-endian byte order,
960 respectively, followed by the specified number of bytes of character
961 data. (The encoding is indicated by the Formats nonterminal.)
964 @var{x} is optional, e.g.@: 00? is an optional zero byte.
966 @item @var{x}*@var{n}
967 @var{x} is repeated @var{n} times, e.g.@: byte*10 for ten arbitrary bytes.
969 @item @var{x}[@var{name}]
970 Gives @var{x} the specified @var{name}. Names are used in textual
971 explanations. They are also used, also bracketed, to indicate counts,
972 e.g.@: @code{int32[n] byte*[n]} for a 32-bit integer followed by the
973 specified number of arbitrary bytes.
975 @item @var{a} @math{|} @var{b}
976 Either @var{a} or @var{b}.
979 Parentheses are used for grouping to make precedence clear, especially
980 in the presence of @math{|}, e.g.@: in 00 (01 @math{|} 02 @math{|} 03)
984 @itemx becount(@var{x})
985 A 32-bit unsigned integer, in little-endian or big-endian byte order,
986 respectively, that indicates the number of bytes in @var{x}, followed
990 In a version 1 @file{.bin} member, @var{x}; in version 3, nothing.
991 (The @file{.bin} header indicates the version.)
994 In a version 3 @file{.bin} member, @var{x}; in version 1, nothing.
997 PSPP uses this grammar to parse light detail members. See
998 @file{src/output/spv/light-binary.grammar} in the PSPP source tree for
1001 Little-endian byte order is far more common in this format, but a few
1002 pieces of the format use big-endian byte order.
1004 Light detail members express linear units in two ways: points (pt), at
1005 72/inch, and ``device-independent pixels'' (px), at 96/inch. To
1006 convert from pt to px, multiply by 1.33 and round up. To convert
1007 from px to pt, divide by 1.33 and round down.
1009 A ``light'' detail member @file{.bin} consists of a number of sections
1010 concatenated together, terminated by an optional byte 01:
1014 Header Titles Footnotes
1015 Areas Borders PrintSettings TableSettings Formats
1016 Dimensions Axes Cells
1020 The following sections go into more detail.
1023 * SPV Light Member Header::
1024 * SPV Light Member Titles::
1025 * SPV Light Member Footnotes::
1026 * SPV Light Member Areas::
1027 * SPV Light Member Borders::
1028 * SPV Light Member Print Settings::
1029 * SPV Light Member Table Settings::
1030 * SPV Light Member Formats::
1031 * SPV Light Member Dimensions::
1032 * SPV Light Member Categories::
1033 * SPV Light Member Axes::
1034 * SPV Light Member Cells::
1035 * SPV Light Member Value::
1036 * SPV Light Member ValueMod::
1039 @node SPV Light Member Header
1042 An SPV light member begins with a 39-byte header:
1047 (i1 @math{|} i3)[version]
1050 bool[rotate-inner-column-labels]
1051 bool[rotate-outer-row-labels]
1054 int32[min-col-heading-width] int32[max-col-heading-width]
1055 int32[min-row-heading-width] int32[max-row-heading-width]
1059 @code{version} is a version number that affects the interpretation of
1060 some of the other data in the member. We will refer to ``version 1''
1061 and ``version 3'' later on and use v1(@dots{}) and v3(@dots{}) for
1062 version-specific formatting (as described previously).
1064 If @code{rotate-inner-column-labels} is 1, then column labels closest
1065 to the data are rotated 90° counterclockwise; otherwise, they are
1066 shown in the normal way.
1068 If @code{rotate-outer-row-labels} is 1, then row labels farthest from
1069 the data are rotated 90° counterclockwise; otherwise, they are shown
1072 @code{min-col-heading-width}, @code{max-col-heading-width}, @code{min-row-heading-width}, and
1073 @code{max-row-heading-width} are measurements in 1/96 inch units (called
1074 ``device independent pixel'' units in Windows) whose values influence
1075 column widths. For the purpose of interpreting these values, a table
1076 is divided into the three regions shown below:
1079 +------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
1080 | | column headings |
1081 | +-------------------------------------------------+
1084 | row headings | data |
1087 +------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
1090 @code{min-col-heading-width} and @code{max-col-heading-width} apply to the columns in
1091 the column headings region. @code{min-col-heading-width} is the minimum width
1092 that any of these columns will be given automatically. In addition,
1093 @code{max-col-heading-width} is the maximum width that a column will be
1094 assigned to accommodate a long label in the column headings cells.
1095 These columns will still be made wider to accommodate wide data values
1098 @code{min-row-heading-width} is the minimum width that a column in the corner
1099 and row headings region will be given automatically.
1100 @code{max-col-heading-width} is the maximum width that a column in this region
1101 will be assigned to accomodate a long label. This region doesn't
1102 include data, so data values don't affect column widths.
1104 @code{table-id} is a binary version of the @code{tableId} attribute in
1105 the structure member that refers to the detail member. For example,
1106 if @code{tableId} is @code{-4122591256483201023}, then @code{table-id}
1107 would be 0xc6c99d183b300001.
1109 The meaning of the other variable parts of the header is not known. A
1110 writer may safely use version 3, true for @code{x0}, false for
1111 @code{x1}, true for @code{x2}, and 0x15 for @code{x3}.
1113 @node SPV Light Member Titles
1119 Value[subtype] 01? 31
1120 Value[user-title] 01?
1121 (31 Value[corner-text] @math{|} 58)
1122 (31 Value[caption] @math{|} 58)
1125 The Titles follow the Header and specify the table's title, caption,
1128 The @code{user-title} reflects any user
1129 editing of the title text or style. The @code{title} is the title
1130 originally generated by the procedure. Both of these are appropriate
1131 for presentation and localized to the user's language. For example,
1132 for a frequency table, @code{title} and @code{user-title} normally
1133 name the variable and @code{c} is simply ``Frequencies''.
1135 @code{subtype} is the same as the @code{subType} attribute in the
1136 @code{table} structure XML element that referred to this member.
1137 @xref{SPV Structure table Element}, for details.
1139 The @code{corner-text}, if present, is shown in the upper-left corner
1140 of the table, above the row headings and to the left of the column
1141 headings. It is usually absent. When row dimension labels are
1142 displayed in the corner (see @code{show-row-labels-in-corner}), corner
1145 The @code{caption}, if present, is shown below the table.
1146 @code{caption} reflects user editing of the caption.
1148 @node SPV Light Member Footnotes
1149 @subsection Footnotes
1152 Footnotes => int32[n-footnotes] Footnote*[n-footnotes]
1153 Footnote => Value[text] (58 @math{|} 31 Value[marker]) int32[show]
1156 Each footnote has @code{text} and an optional custom @code{marker}
1159 The syntax for Value would allow footnotes (and their markers) to
1160 reference other footnotes, but in practice this doesn't work.
1162 @code{show} is a 32-bit signed integer. It is positive to show the
1163 footnote or negative to hide it. Its magnitude is often 1, and in
1164 other cases tends to be the number of references to the footnote.
1165 It is safe to write 1 to show a footnote and -1 to hide it.
1167 @node SPV Light Member Areas
1174 string[typeface] float[size] int32[style] bool[underline]
1175 int32[halign] int32[valign]
1176 string[fg-color] string[bg-color]
1177 bool[alternate] string[alt-fg-color] string[alt-bg-color]
1178 v3(int32[left-margin] int32[right-margin] int32[top-margin] int32[bottom-margin])
1181 Each Area represents the style for a different area of the table, in
1182 the following order: title, caption, footer, corner, column labels,
1183 row labels, data, and layers.
1185 @code{index} is the 1-based index of the Area, i.e.@: 1 for the first
1186 Area, through 8 for the final Area.
1188 @code{typeface} is the string name of the font used in the area. In
1189 the corpus, this is @code{SansSerif} in over 99% of instances and
1190 @code{Times New Roman} in the rest.
1192 @code{size} is the size of the font, in px (@pxref{SPV Light Detail
1193 Member Format}). The most common size in the corpus is 12 px. Even
1194 though @code{size} has a floating-point type, in the corpus its values
1195 are always integers.
1197 @code{style} is a bit mask. Bit 0 (with value 1) is set for bold, bit
1198 1 (with value 2) is set for italic.
1200 @code{underline} is 1 if the font is underlined, 0 otherwise.
1202 @code{halign} specifies horizontal alignment: 0 for center, 2 for
1203 left, 4 for right, 61453 for decimal, 64173 for mixed. Mixed
1204 alignment varies according to type: string data is left-justified,
1205 numbers and most other formats are right-justified.
1207 @code{valign} specifies vertical alignment: 0 for center, 1 for top, 3
1210 @code{fg-color} and @code{bg-color} are the foreground color and
1211 background color, respectively. In the corpus, these are always
1212 @code{#000000} and @code{#ffffff}, respectively.
1214 @code{alternate} is 1 if rows should alternate colors, 0 if all rows
1215 should be the same color. When @code{alternate} is 1,
1216 @code{alt-fg-color} and @code{alt-bg-color} specify the colors for the
1217 alternate rows; otherwise they are empty strings.
1219 @code{left-margin}, @code{right-margin}, @code{top-margin}, and
1220 @code{bottom-margin} are measured in px.
1222 @node SPV Light Member Borders
1229 be32[n-borders] Border*[n-borders]
1230 bool[show-grid-lines]
1239 The Borders reflect how borders between regions are drawn.
1241 The fixed value of @code{endian} can be used to validate the
1244 @code{show-grid-lines} is 1 to draw grid lines, otherwise 0.
1246 Each Border describes one kind of border. @code{n-borders} seems to
1247 always be 19. Each @code{border-type} appears once (although in an
1248 unpredictable order) and correspond to the following borders:
1254 Left, top, right, and bottom outer frame.
1256 Left, top, right, and bottom inner frame.
1258 Left and top of data area.
1260 Horizontal and vertical dimension rows.
1262 Horizontal and vertical dimension columns.
1264 Horizontal and vertical category rows.
1266 Horizontal and vertical category columns.
1269 @code{stroke-type} describes how a border is drawn, as one of:
1286 @code{color} is an RGB color. Bits 24--31 are alpha, bits 16--23 are
1287 red, 8--15 are green, 0--7 are blue. An alpha of 255 indicates an
1288 opaque color, therefore opaque black is 0xff000000.
1290 @node SPV Light Member Print Settings
1291 @subsection Print Settings
1298 bool[paginate-layers]
1301 bool[top-continuation]
1302 bool[bottom-continuation]
1303 be32[n-orphan-lines]
1304 bestring[continuation-string])
1307 The PrintSettings reflect settings for printing. The fixed value of
1308 @code{endian} can be used to validate the endianness.
1310 @code{all-layers} is 1 to print all layers, 0 to print only the layer
1311 designated by @code{current-layer} in TableSettings (@pxref{SPV Light
1312 Member Table Settings}).
1314 @code{paginate-layers} is 1 to print each layer at the start of a new
1315 page, 0 otherwise. (This setting is honored only @code{all-layers} is
1316 1, since otherwise only one layer is printed.)
1318 @code{fit-width} and @code{fit-length} control whether the table is
1319 shrunk to fit within a page's width or length, respectively.
1321 @code{n-orphan-lines} is the minimum number of rows or columns to put
1322 in one part of a table that is broken across pages.
1324 If @code{top-continuation} is 1, then @code{continuation-string} is
1325 printed at the top of a page when a table is broken across pages for
1326 printing; similarly for @code{bottom-continuation} and the bottom of a
1327 page. Usually, @code{continuation-string} is empty.
1329 @node SPV Light Member Table Settings
1330 @subsection Table Settings
1340 bool[show-row-labels-in-corner]
1341 bool[show-alphabetic-markers]
1342 bool[footnote-marker-superscripts]
1345 Breakpoints[row-breaks] Breakpoints[column-breaks]
1346 Keeps[row-keeps] Keeps[column-keeps]
1347 PointKeeps[row-point-keeps] PointKeeps[column-point-keeps]
1350 bestring[table-look]
1353 Breakpoints => be32[n-breaks] be32*[n-breaks]
1355 Keeps => be32[n-keeps] Keep*[n-keeps]
1356 Keep => be32[offset] be32[n]
1358 PointKeeps => be32[n-point-keeps] PointKeep*[n-point-keeps]
1359 PointKeep => be32[offset] be32 be32
1362 The TableSettings reflect display settings. The fixed value of
1363 @code{endian} can be used to validate the endianness.
1365 @code{current-layer} is the displayed layer. Suppose there are
1366 @math{d} layers, numbered 1 through @math{d} in the order given in the
1367 Dimensions (@pxref{SPV Light Member Dimensions}), and that the
1368 displayed value of dimension @math{i} is @math{d_i}, @math{0 \le x_i <
1369 n_i}, where @math{n_i} is the number of categories in dimension
1370 @math{i}. Then @code{current-layer} is calculated by the following
1374 let @code{current-layer} = 0
1375 for each @math{i} from @math{d} downto 1:
1376 @code{current-layer} = (@math{n_i \times} @code{current-layer}) @math{+} @math{x_i}
1379 If @code{omit-empty} is 1, empty rows or columns (ones with nothing in
1380 any cell) are hidden; otherwise, they are shown.
1382 If @code{show-row-labels-in-corner} is 1, then row labels are shown in
1383 the upper left corner; otherwise, they are shown nested.
1385 If @code{show-alphabetic-markers} is 1, markers are shown as letters
1386 (e.g.@: @samp{a}, @samp{b}, @samp{c}, @dots{}); otherwise, they are
1387 shown as numbers starting from 1.
1389 When @code{footnote-marker-superscripts} is 1, footnote markers are shown
1390 as superscripts, otherwise as subscripts.
1392 The Breakpoints are rows or columns after which there is a page break;
1393 for example, a row break of 1 requests a page break after the second
1394 row. Usually no breakpoints are specified, indicating that page
1395 breaks should be selected automatically.
1397 The Keeps are ranges of rows or columns to be kept together without a
1398 page break; for example, a row Keep with @code{offset} 1 and @code{n}
1399 10 requests that the 10 rows starting with the second row be kept
1400 together. Usually no Keeps are specified.
1402 The PointKeeps seem to be generated automatically based on
1403 user-specified Keeps. They seems to indicate a conversion from rows
1404 or columns to pixel or point offsets.
1406 @code{notes} is a text string that contains user-specified notes. It
1407 is displayed when the user hovers the cursor over the table, like text
1408 in the @code{title} attribute in HTML@. It is not printed. It is
1411 @code{table-look} is the name of a SPSS ``TableLook'' table style,
1412 such as ``Default'' or ``Academic''; it is often empty.
1414 TableSettings ends with an arbitrary number of null bytes. A writer
1415 may safely write 82 null bytes.
1417 A writer may safely use 4 for @code{x5} and 0 for @code{x6}.
1419 @node SPV Light Member Formats
1424 int32[n-widths] int32*[n-widths]
1426 int32[current-layer]
1427 bool[x7] bool[x8] bool[x9]
1432 v3(count(X1 count(X2)) count(X3)))
1433 Y0 => int32[epoch] byte[decimal] byte[grouping]
1434 CustomCurrency => int32[n-ccs] string*[n-ccs]
1437 If @code{n-widths} is nonzero, then the accompanying integers are
1438 column widths as manually adjusted by the user.
1440 @code{locale} is a locale including an encoding, such as
1441 @code{en_US.windows-1252} or @code{it_IT.windows-1252}.
1442 (@code{locale} is often duplicated in Y1, described below).
1444 @code{epoch} is the year that starts the epoch. A 2-digit year is
1445 interpreted as belonging to the 100 years beginning at the epoch. The
1446 default epoch year is 69 years prior to the current year; thus, in
1447 2017 this field by default contains 1948. In the corpus, @code{epoch}
1448 ranges from 1943 to 1948, plus some contain -1.
1450 @code{decimal} is the decimal point character. The observed values
1451 are @samp{.} and @samp{,}.
1453 @code{grouping} is the grouping character. Usually, it is @samp{,} if
1454 @code{decimal} is @samp{.}, and vice versa. Other observed values are
1455 @samp{'} (apostrophe), @samp{ } (space), and zero (presumably
1456 indicating that digits should not be grouped).
1458 @code{n-ccs} is observed as either 0 or 5. When it is 5, the
1459 following strings are CCA through CCE format strings. @xref{Custom
1460 Currency Formats,,, pspp, PSPP}. Most commonly these are all
1461 @code{-,,,} but other strings occur.
1463 A writer may safely use false for @code{x7}, @code{x8}, and @code{x9}.
1467 X0 only appears, optionally, in version 1 members.
1472 string[command] string[command-local]
1473 string[language] string[charset] string[locale]
1474 bool[x10] bool[include-leading-zero] bool[x12] bool[x13]
1476 Y2 => CustomCurrency byte[missing] bool[x17]
1479 @code{command} describes the statistical procedure that generated the
1480 output, in English. It is not necessarily the literal syntax name of
1481 the procedure: for example, NPAR TESTS becomes ``Nonparametric
1482 Tests.'' @code{command-local} is the procedure's name, translated
1483 into the output language; it is often empty and, when it is not,
1484 sometimes the same as @code{command}.
1486 @code{include-leading-zero} is the @code{LEADZERO} setting for the
1487 table, where false is @code{OFF} (the default) and true is @code{ON}.
1488 @xref{SET LEADZERO,,, pspp, PSPP}.
1490 @code{missing} is the character used to indicate that a cell contains
1491 a missing value. It is always observed as @samp{.}.
1493 A writer may safely use false for @code{x10} and @code{x17} and true
1494 for @code{x12} and @code{x13}.
1498 X1 only appears in version 3 members.
1506 byte[show-variables]
1508 int32[x18] int32[x19]
1514 @code{lang} may indicate the language in use. Some values seem to be
1515 0: @t{en}, 1: @t{de}, 2: @t{es}, 3: @t{it}, 5: @t{ko}, 6: @t{pl}, 8:
1516 @t{zh-tw}, 10: @t{pt_BR}, 11: @t{fr}.
1518 @code{show-variables} determines how variables are displayed by
1519 default. A value of 1 means to display variable names, 2 to display
1520 variable labels when available, 3 to display both (name followed by
1521 label, separated by a space). The most common value is 0, which
1522 probably means to use a global default.
1524 @code{show-values} is a similar setting for values. A value of 1
1525 means to display the value, 2 to display the value label when
1526 available, 3 to display both. Again, the most common value is 0,
1527 which probably means to use a global default.
1529 @code{show-title} is 1 to show the caption, 10 to hide it.
1531 @code{show-caption} is true to show the caption, false to hide it.
1533 A writer may safely use false for @code{x14}, false for @code{x16}, 0
1534 for @code{lang}, -1 for @code{x18} and @code{x19}, and false for
1539 X2 only appears in version 3 members.
1543 int32[n-row-heights] int32*[n-row-heights]
1544 int32[n-style-map] StyleMap*[n-style-map]
1545 int32[n-styles] StylePair*[n-styles]
1547 StyleMap => int64[cell-index] int16[style-index]
1550 If present, @code{n-row-heights} and the accompanying integers are row
1551 heights as manually adjusted by the user.
1553 The rest of X2 specifies styles for data cells. At first glance this
1554 is odd, because each data cell can have its own style embedded as part
1555 of the data, but in practice X2 specifies a style for a cell only if
1556 that cell is empty (and thus does not appear in the data at all).
1557 Each StyleMap specifies the index of a blank cell, calculated the same
1558 was as in the Cells (@pxref{SPV Light Member Cells}), along with a
1559 0-based index into the accompanying StylePair array.
1561 A writer may safely omit the optional @code{i0 i0} inside the
1562 @code{count(@dots{})}.
1566 X3 only appears in version 3 members.
1570 01 00 byte[x21] 00 00 00
1573 (string[dataset] string[datafile] i0 int32[date] i0)?
1575 (int32[x22] i0 01?)?
1578 @code{small} is a small real number. In the corpus, it overwhelmingly
1579 takes the value 0.0001, with zero occasionally seen. Nonzero numbers
1580 with format 40 (@pxref{SPV Light Member Value}) whose magnitudes are
1581 smaller than displayed in scientific notation. (Thus, a @code{small}
1582 of zero prevents scientific notation from being chosen.)
1584 @code{dataset} is the name of the dataset analyzed to produce the
1585 output, e.g.@: @code{DataSet1}, and @code{datafile} the name of the
1586 file it was read from, e.g.@: @file{C:\Users\foo\bar.sav}. The latter
1587 is sometimes the empty string.
1589 @code{date} is a date, as seconds since the epoch, i.e.@: since
1590 January 1, 1970. Pivot tables within an SPV file often have dates a
1591 few minutes apart, so this is probably a creation date for the table
1592 rather than for the file.
1594 Sometimes @code{dataset}, @code{datafile}, and @code{date} are present
1595 and other times they are absent. The reader can distinguish by
1596 assuming that they are present and then checking whether the
1597 presumptive @code{dataset} contains a null byte (a valid string never
1600 @code{x22} is usually 0 or 2000000.
1602 A writer may safely use 4 for @code{x21} and omit @code{x22} and the
1603 other optional bytes at the end.
1605 @subsubheading Encoding
1607 Formats contains several indications of character encoding:
1611 @code{locale} in Formats itself.
1614 @code{locale} in Y1 (in version 1, Y1 is optionally nested inside X0;
1615 in version 3, Y1 is nested inside X3).
1618 @code{charset} in version 3, in Y1.
1621 @code{lang} in X1, in version 3.
1624 @code{charset}, if present, is a good indication of character
1625 encoding, and in its absence the encoding suffix on @code{locale} in
1628 @code{locale} in Y1 can be disregarded: it is normally the same as
1629 @code{locale} in Formats, and it is only present if @code{charset} is
1632 @code{lang} is not helpful and should be ignored for character
1635 However, the corpus contains many examples of light members whose
1636 strings are encoded in UTF-8 despite declaring some other character
1637 set. Furthermore, the corpus contains several examples of light
1638 members in which some strings are encoded in UTF-8 (and contain
1639 multibyte characters) and other strings are encoded in another
1640 character set (and contain non-ASCII characters). PSPP treats any
1641 valid UTF-8 string as UTF-8 and only falls back to the declared
1642 encoding for strings that are not valid UTF-8.
1644 The @command{pspp-output} program's @command{strings} command can help
1645 analyze the encoding in an SPV light member. Use @code{pspp-output
1646 --help-dev} to see its usage.
1648 @node SPV Light Member Dimensions
1649 @subsection Dimensions
1651 A pivot table presents multidimensional data. A Dimension identifies
1652 the categories associated with each dimension.
1655 Dimensions => int32[n-dims] Dimension*[n-dims]
1657 Value[name] DimProperties
1658 int32[n-categories] Category*[n-categories]
1663 bool[hide-dim-label]
1664 bool[hide-all-labels]
1668 @code{name} is the name of the dimension, e.g.@: @code{Variables},
1669 @code{Statistics}, or a variable name.
1671 The meanings of @code{x1} and @code{x3} are unknown. @code{x1} is
1672 usually 0 but many other values have been observed. A writer may
1673 safely use 0 for @code{x1} and 2 for @code{x3}.
1675 @code{x2} is 0, 1, or 2. For a pivot table with @var{L} layer
1676 dimensions, @var{R} row dimensions, and @var{C} column dimensions,
1677 @code{x2} is 2 for the first @var{L} dimensions, 0 for the next
1678 @var{R} dimensions, and 1 for the remaining @var{C} dimensions. This
1679 does not mean that the layer dimensions must be presented first,
1680 followed by the row dimensions, followed by the column dimensions---on
1681 the contrary, they are frequently in a different order---but @code{x2}
1682 must follow this pattern to prevent the pivot table from being
1685 If @code{hide-dim-label} is 00, the pivot table displays a label for
1686 the dimension itself. Because usually the group and category labels
1687 are enough explanation, it is usually 01.
1689 If @code{hide-all-labels} is 01, the pivot table omits all labels for
1690 the dimension, including group and category labels. It is usually 00.
1691 When @code{hide-all-labels} is 01, @code{show-dim-label} is ignored.
1693 @code{dim-index} is usually the 0-based index of the dimension, e.g.@:
1694 0 for the first dimension, 1 for the second, and so on. Sometimes it
1695 is -1. There is no visible difference. A writer may safely use the
1698 @node SPV Light Member Categories
1699 @subsection Categories
1701 Categories are arranged in a tree. Only the leaf nodes in the tree
1702 are really categories; the others just serve as grouping constructs.
1705 Category => Value[name] (Leaf @math{|} Group)
1706 Leaf => 00 00 00 i2 int32[leaf-index] i0
1708 bool[merge] 00 01 int32[x23]
1709 i-1 int32[n-subcategories] Category*[n-subcategories]
1712 @code{name} is the name of the category (or group).
1714 A Leaf represents a leaf category. The Leaf's @code{leaf-index} is a
1715 nonnegative integer unique within the Dimension and less than
1716 @code{n-categories} in the Dimension. If the user does not sort or
1717 rearrange the categories, then @code{leaf-index} starts at 0 for the
1718 first Leaf in the dimension and increments by 1 with each successive
1719 Leaf. If the user does sorts or rearrange the categories, then the
1720 order of categories in the file reflects that change and
1721 @code{leaf-index} reflects the original order.
1723 A dimension can have no leaf categories at all. A table that
1724 contains such a dimension necessarily has no data at all.
1726 A Group is a group of nested categories. Usually a Group contains at
1727 least one Category, so that @code{n-subcategories} is positive, but
1728 Groups with zero subcategories have been observed.
1730 If a Group's @code{merge} is 00, the most common value, then the group
1731 is really a distinct group that should be represented as such in the
1732 visual representation and user interface. If @code{merge} is 01, the
1733 categories in this group should be shown and treated as if they were
1734 direct children of the group's containing group (or if it has no
1735 parent group, then direct children of the dimension), and this group's
1736 name is irrelevant and should not be displayed. (Merged groups can be
1739 Writers need not use merged groups.
1741 A Group's @code{x23} appears to be i2 when all of the categories
1742 within a group are leaf categories that directly represent data values
1743 for a variable (e.g.@: in a frequency table or crosstabulation, a group
1744 of values in a variable being tabulated) and i0 otherwise. A writer
1745 may safely write a constant 0 in this field.
1747 @node SPV Light Member Axes
1750 After the dimensions come assignment of each dimension to one of the
1751 axes: layers, rows, and columns.
1755 int32[n-layers] int32[n-rows] int32[n-columns]
1756 int32*[n-layers] int32*[n-rows] int32*[n-columns]
1759 The values of @code{n-layers}, @code{n-rows}, and @code{n-columns}
1760 each specifies the number of dimensions displayed in layers, rows, and
1761 columns, respectively. Any of them may be zero. Their values sum to
1762 @code{n-dimensions} from Dimensions (@pxref{SPV Light Member
1765 The following @code{n-dimensions} integers, in three groups, are a
1766 permutation of the 0-based dimension numbers. The first
1767 @code{n-layers} integers specify each of the dimensions represented by
1768 layers, the next @code{n-rows} integers specify the dimensions
1769 represented by rows, and the final @code{n-columns} integers specify
1770 the dimensions represented by columns. When there is more than one
1771 dimension of a given kind, the inner dimensions are given first. (For
1772 the layer axis, this means that the first dimension is at the bottom
1773 of the list and the last dimension is at the top when the current
1774 layer is displayed.)
1776 @node SPV Light Member Cells
1779 The final part of an SPV light member contains the actual data.
1782 Cells => int32[n-cells] Cell*[n-cells]
1783 Cell => int64[index] v1(00?) Value
1786 A Cell consists of an @code{index} and a Value. Suppose there are
1787 @math{d} dimensions, numbered 1 through @math{d} in the order given in
1788 the Dimensions previously, and that dimension @math{i} has @math{n_i}
1789 categories. Consider the cell at coordinates @math{x_i}, @math{1 \le
1790 i \le d}, and note that @math{0 \le x_i < n_i}. Then the index is
1791 calculated by the following algorithm:
1795 for each @math{i} from 1 to @math{d}:
1796 @i{index} = (@math{n_i \times} @i{index}) @math{+} @math{x_i}
1799 For example, suppose there are 3 dimensions with 3, 4, and 5
1800 categories, respectively. The cell at coordinates (1, 2, 3) has
1801 index @math{5 \times (4 \times (3 \times 0 + 1) + 2) + 3 = 33}.
1802 Within a given dimension, the index is the @code{leaf-index} in a Leaf.
1804 @node SPV Light Member Value
1807 Value is used throughout the SPV light member format. It boils down
1808 to a number or a string.
1811 Value => 00? 00? 00? 00? RawValue
1813 01 ValueMod int32[format] double[x]
1814 @math{|} 02 ValueMod int32[format] double[x]
1815 string[var-name] string[value-label] byte[show]
1816 @math{|} 03 string[local] ValueMod string[id] string[c] bool[fixed]
1817 @math{|} 04 ValueMod int32[format] string[value-label] string[var-name]
1818 byte[show] string[s]
1819 @math{|} 05 ValueMod string[var-name] string[var-label] byte[show]
1820 @math{|} 06 string[local] ValueMod string[id] string[c]
1821 @math{|} ValueMod string[template] int32[n-args] Argument*[n-args]
1824 @math{|} int32[x] i0 Value*[x] /* x > 0 */
1827 There are several possible encodings, which one can distinguish by the
1828 first nonzero byte in the encoding.
1832 The numeric value @code{x}, intended to be presented to the user
1833 formatted according to @code{format}, which is about the same as the
1834 format described for system files (@pxref{System File Output
1835 Formats}). The exception is that format 40 is not MTIME but instead
1836 approximately a synonym for F format with a different rule for whether
1837 a value is shown in scientific notation: a value in format 40 is shown
1838 in scientific notation if and only if it is nonzero and its magnitude
1839 is less than @code{small} (@pxref{SPV Light Member Formats}).
1841 Most commonly, @code{format} has width 40 (the maximum).
1843 An @code{x} with the maximum negative double value @code{-DBL_MAX}
1844 represents the system-missing value SYSMIS. (HIGHEST and LOWEST have
1845 not been observed.) See @ref{System File Format}, for more about
1846 these special values.
1849 Similar to @code{01}, with the additional information that @code{x} is
1850 a value of variable @code{var-name} and has value label
1851 @code{value-label}. Both @code{var-name} and @code{value-label} can
1852 be the empty string, the latter very commonly.
1854 @code{show} determines whether to show the numeric value or the value
1855 label. A value of 1 means to show the value, 2 to show the label, 3
1856 to show both, and 0 means to use the default specified in
1857 @code{show-values} (@pxref{SPV Light Member Formats}).
1860 A text string, in two forms: @code{c} is in English, and sometimes
1861 abbreviated or obscure, and @code{local} is localized to the user's
1862 locale. In an English-language locale, the two strings are often the
1863 same, and in the cases where they differ, @code{local} is more
1864 appropriate for a user interface, e.g.@: @code{c} of ``Not a PxP table
1865 for MCN...'' versus @code{local} of ``Computed only for a PxP table,
1866 where P must be greater than 1.''
1868 @code{c} and @code{local} are always either both empty or both
1871 @code{id} is a brief identifying string whose form seems to resemble a
1872 programming language identifier, e.g.@: @code{cumulative_percent} or
1873 @code{factor_14}. It is not unique.
1875 @code{fixed} is 00 for text taken from user input, such as syntax
1876 fragment, expressions, file names, data set names, and 01 for fixed
1877 text strings such as names of procedures or statistics. In the former
1878 case, @code{id} is always the empty string; in the latter case,
1879 @code{id} is still sometimes empty.
1882 The string value @code{s}, intended to be presented to the user
1883 formatted according to @code{format}. The format for a string is not
1884 too interesting, and the corpus contains many clearly invalid formats
1885 like A16.39 or A255.127 or A134.1, so readers should probably entirely
1886 disregard the format. PSPP only checks @code{format} to distinguish
1889 @code{s} is a value of variable @code{var-name} and has value label
1890 @code{value-label}. @code{var-name} is never empty but
1891 @code{value-label} is commonly empty.
1893 @code{show} has the same meaning as in the encoding for 02.
1896 Variable @code{var-name} with variable label @code{var-label}. In the
1897 corpus, @code{var-name} is rarely empty and @code{var-label} is often
1900 @code{show} determines whether to show the variable name or the
1901 variable label. A value of 1 means to show the name, 2 to show the
1902 label, 3 to show both, and 0 means to use the default specified in
1903 @code{show-variables} (@pxref{SPV Light Member Formats}).
1906 Similar to type 03, with @code{fixed} assumed to be true.
1909 When the first byte of a RawValue is not one of the above, the
1910 RawValue starts with a ValueMod, whose syntax is described in the next
1911 section. (A ValueMod always begins with byte 31 or 58.)
1913 This case is a template string, analogous to @code{printf}, followed
1914 by one or more Arguments, each of which has one or more values. The
1915 template string is copied directly into the output except for the
1916 following special syntax,
1923 Each of these expands to the character following @samp{\\}, to escape
1924 characters that have special meaning in template strings. These are
1925 effective inside and outside the @code{[@dots{}]} syntax forms
1929 Expands to a new-line, inside or outside the @code{[@dots{}]} forms
1933 Expands to a formatted version of argument @var{i}, which must have
1934 only a single value. For example, @code{^1} expands to the first
1935 argument's @code{value}.
1937 @item [:@var{a}:]@var{i}
1938 Expands @var{a} for each of the values in @var{i}. @var{a}
1939 should contain one or more @code{^@var{j}} conversions, which are
1940 drawn from the values for argument @var{i} in order. Some examples
1945 All of the values for the first argument, concatenated.
1948 Expands to the values for the first argument, each followed by
1952 Expands to @code{@var{x} = @var{y}} where @var{x} is the second
1953 argument's first value and @var{y} is its second value. (This would
1954 be used only if the argument has two values. If there were more
1955 values, the second and third values would be directly concatenated,
1956 which would look funny.)
1959 @item [@var{a}:@var{b}:]@var{i}
1960 This extends the previous form so that the first values are expanded
1961 using @var{a} and later values are expanded using @var{b}. For an
1962 unknown reason, within @var{a} the @code{^@var{j}} conversions are
1963 instead written as @code{%@var{j}}. Some examples from the corpus:
1967 Expands to all of the values for the first argument, separated by
1970 @item [%1 = %2:, ^1 = ^2:]1
1971 Given appropriate values for the first argument, expands to @code{X =
1975 Given appropriate values, expands to @code{1, 2, 3}.
1979 The template string is localized to the user's locale.
1982 A writer may safely omit all of the optional 00 bytes at the beginning
1983 of a Value, except that it should write a single 00 byte before a
1986 @node SPV Light Member ValueMod
1987 @subsection ValueMod
1989 A ValueMod can specify special modifications to a Value.
1995 int32[n-refs] int16*[n-refs]
1996 int32[n-subscripts] string*[n-subscripts]
1997 v1(00 (i1 | i2) 00? 00? int32 00? 00?)
1998 v3(count(TemplateString StylePair))
2000 TemplateString => count((count((i0 (58 @math{|} 31 55))?) (58 @math{|} 31 string[id]))?)
2007 bool[bold] bool[italic] bool[underline] bool[show]
2008 string[fg-color] string[bg-color]
2009 string[typeface] byte[size]
2012 int32[halign] int32[valign] double[decimal-offset]
2013 int16[left-margin] int16[right-margin]
2014 int16[top-margin] int16[bottom-margin]
2017 A ValueMod that begins with ``31'' specifies special modifications to
2020 Each of the @code{n-refs} integers is a reference to a Footnote
2021 (@pxref{SPV Light Member Footnotes}) by 0-based index. Footnote
2022 markers are shown appended to the main text of the Value, as
2023 superscripts or subscripts.
2025 The @code{subscripts}, if present, are strings to append to the main
2026 text of the Value, as subscripts. Each subscript text is a brief
2027 indicator, e.g.@: @samp{a} or @samp{b}, with its meaning indicated by
2028 the table caption. When multiple subscripts are present, they are
2029 displayed separated by commas.
2031 The @code{id} inside the TemplateString, if present, is a template
2032 string for substitutions using the syntax explained previously. It
2033 appears to be an English-language version of the localized template
2034 string in the Value in which the Template is nested. A writer may
2035 safely omit the optional fixed data in TemplateString.
2037 FontStyle and CellStyle, if present, change the style for this
2038 individual Value. In FontStyle, @code{bold}, @code{italic}, and
2039 @code{underline} control the particular style. @code{show} is
2040 ordinarily 1; if it is 0, then the cell data is not shown.
2041 @code{fg-color} and @code{bg-color} are strings in the format
2042 @code{#rrggbb}, e.g.@: @code{#ff0000} for red or @code{#ffffff} for
2043 white. The empty string is occasionally observed also. The
2044 @code{size} is a font size in units of 1/128 inch.
2046 In CellStyle, @code{halign} is 0 for center, 2 for left, 4 for right,
2047 6 for decimal, 0xffffffad for mixed. For decimal alignment,
2048 @code{decimal-offset} is the decimal point's offset from the right
2049 side of the cell, in pt (@pxref{SPV Light Detail Member Format}).
2050 @code{valign} specifies vertical alignment: 0 for center, 1 for top, 3
2051 for bottom. @code{left-margin}, @code{right-margin},
2052 @code{top-margin}, and @code{bottom-margin} are in pt.
2054 @node SPV Legacy Detail Member Binary Format
2055 @section Legacy Detail Member Binary Format
2057 Whereas the light binary format represents everything about a given
2058 pivot table, the legacy binary format conceptually consists of a
2059 number of named sources, each of which consists of a number of named
2060 variables, each of which is a 1-dimensional array of numbers or
2061 strings or a mix. Thus, the legacy binary member format is quite
2064 This section uses the same context-free grammar notation as in the
2065 previous section, with the following additions:
2069 In a version 0xaf legacy member, @var{x}; in other versions, nothing.
2070 (The legacy member header indicates the version; see below.)
2073 In a version 0xb0 legacy member, @var{x}; in other versions, nothing.
2076 A legacy detail member @file{.bin} has the following overall format:
2080 00 byte[version] int16[n-sources] int32[member-size]
2081 Metadata*[n-sources]
2086 @code{version} is a version number that affects the interpretation of
2087 some of the other data in the member. Versions 0xaf and 0xb0 are
2088 known. We will refer to ``version 0xaf'' and ``version 0xb0'' members
2091 A legacy member consists of @code{n-sources} data sources, each of
2092 which has Metadata and Data.
2094 @code{member-size} is the size of the legacy binary member, in bytes.
2096 The Data and Strings above are commented out because the Metadata has
2097 some oddities that mean that the Data sometimes seems to start at
2098 an unexpected place. The following section goes into detail.
2101 * SPV Legacy Member Metadata::
2102 * SPV Legacy Member Numeric Data::
2103 * SPV Legacy Member String Data::
2106 @node SPV Legacy Member Metadata
2107 @subsection Metadata
2111 int32[n-values] int32[n-variables] int32[data-offset]
2112 vAF(byte*28[source-name])
2113 vB0(byte*64[source-name] int32[x])
2116 A data source has @code{n-variables} variables, each with
2117 @code{n-values} data values.
2119 @code{source-name} is a 28- or 64-byte string padded on the right with
2120 0-bytes. The names that appear in the corpus are very generic:
2121 usually @code{tableData} for pivot table data or @code{source0} for
2124 A given Metadata's @code{data-offset} is the offset, in bytes, from
2125 the beginning of the member to the start of the corresponding Data.
2126 This allows programs to skip to the beginning of the data for a
2127 particular source. In every case in the corpus, the Data follow the
2128 Metadata in the same order, but it is important to use
2129 @code{data-offset} instead of reading sequentially through the file
2130 because of the exception described below.
2132 One SPV file in the corpus has legacy binary members with version 0xb0
2133 but a 28-byte @code{source-name} field (and only a single source). In
2134 practice, this means that the 64-byte @code{source-name} used in
2135 version 0xb0 has a lot of 0-bytes in the middle followed by the
2136 @code{variable-name} of the following Data. As long as a reader
2137 treats the first 0-byte in the @code{source-name} as terminating the
2138 string, it can properly interpret these members.
2140 The meaning of @code{x} in version 0xb0 is unknown.
2142 @node SPV Legacy Member Numeric Data
2143 @subsection Numeric Data
2146 Data => Variable*[n-variables]
2147 Variable => byte*288[variable-name] double*[n-values]
2150 Data follow the Metadata in the legacy binary format, with sources in
2151 the same order (but readers should use the @code{data-offset} in
2152 Metadata records, rather than reading sequentially). Each Variable
2153 begins with a @code{variable-name} that generally indicates its role
2154 in the pivot table, e.g.@: ``cell'', ``cellFormat'',
2155 ``dimension0categories'', ``dimension0group0'', followed by the
2156 numeric data, one double per datum. A double with the maximum
2157 negative double @code{-DBL_MAX} represents the system-missing value
2160 @node SPV Legacy Member String Data
2161 @subsection String Data
2164 Strings => SourceMaps[maps] Labels
2166 SourceMaps => int32[n-maps] SourceMap*[n-maps]
2168 SourceMap => string[source-name] int32[n-variables] VariableMap*[n-variables]
2169 VariableMap => string[variable-name] int32[n-data] DatumMap*[n-data]
2170 DatumMap => int32[value-idx] int32[label-idx]
2172 Labels => int32[n-labels] Label*[n-labels]
2173 Label => int32[frequency] string[label]
2176 Each variable may include a mix of numeric and string data values. If
2177 a legacy binary member contains any string data, Strings is present;
2178 otherwise, it ends just after the last Data element.
2180 The string data overlays the numeric data. When a variable includes
2181 any string data, its Variable represents the string values with a
2182 SYSMIS or NaN placeholder. (Not all such values need be
2185 Each SourceMap provides a mapping between SYSMIS or NaN values in source
2186 @code{source-name} and the string data that they represent.
2187 @code{n-variables} is the number of variables in the source that
2188 include string data. More precisely, it is the 1-based index of the
2189 last variable in the source that includes any string data; thus, it
2190 would be 4 if there are 5 variables and only the fourth one includes
2193 A VariableMap repeats its variable's name, but variables are always
2194 present in the same order as the source, starting from the first
2195 variable, without skipping any even if they have no string values.
2196 Each VariableMap contains DatumMap nonterminals, each of which maps
2197 from a 0-based index within its variable's data to a 0-based label
2198 index, e.g.@: pair @code{value-idx} = 2, @code{label-idx} = 3, means
2199 that the third data value (which must be SYSMIS or NaN) is to be
2200 replaced by the string of the fourth Label.
2202 The labels themselves follow the pairs. The valuable part of each
2203 label is the string @code{label}. Each label also includes a
2204 @code{frequency} that reports the number of DatumMaps that reference
2205 it (although this is not useful).
2207 @node SPV Legacy Detail Member XML Format
2208 @section Legacy Detail Member XML Format
2210 The design of the detail XML format is not what one would end up with
2211 for describing pivot tables. This is because it is a special case
2212 of a much more general format (``visualization XML'' or ``VizML'')
2213 that can describe a wide range of visualizations. Most of this
2214 generality is overkill for tables, and so we end up with a funny
2215 subset of a general-purpose format.
2217 An XML Schema for VizML is available, distributed with SPSS binaries,
2218 under a nonfree license. It contains documentation that is
2219 occasionally helpful.
2221 This section describes the detail XML format using the same notation
2222 already used for the structure XML format (@pxref{SPV Structure Member
2223 Format}). See @file{src/output/spv/detail-xml.grammar} in the PSPP
2224 source tree for the full grammar that it uses for parsing.
2226 The important elements of the detail XML format are:
2230 Variables. @xref{SPV Detail Variable Elements}.
2233 Assignment of variables to axes. A variable can appear as columns, or
2234 rows, or layers. The @code{faceting} element and its sub-elements
2235 describe this assignment.
2238 Styles and other annotations.
2241 This description is not detailed enough to write legacy tables.
2242 Instead, write tables in the light binary format.
2245 * SPV Detail visualization Element::
2246 * SPV Detail Variable Elements::
2247 * SPV Detail extension Element::
2248 * SPV Detail graph Element::
2249 * SPV Detail location Element::
2250 * SPV Detail faceting Element::
2251 * SPV Detail facetLayout Element::
2252 * SPV Detail label Element::
2253 * SPV Detail setCellProperties Element::
2254 * SPV Detail setFormat Element::
2255 * SPV Detail interval Element::
2256 * SPV Detail style Element::
2257 * SPV Detail labelFrame Element::
2258 * SPV Detail Legacy Properties::
2261 @node SPV Detail visualization Element
2262 @subsection The @code{visualization} Element
2270 :style[style_ref]=ref style
2274 => visualization_extension?
2276 (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)+
2285 extension[visualization_extension]
2288 :minWidthSet=(true)?
2289 :maxWidthSet=(true)?
2292 userSource :missing=(listwise | pairwise)? => EMPTY
2294 categoricalDomain => variableReference simpleSort
2296 simpleSort :method[sort_method]=(custom) => categoryOrder
2298 container :style=ref style => container_extension? location+ labelFrame*
2300 extension[container_extension] :combinedFootnotes=(true) => EMPTY
2308 The @code{visualization} element is the root of detail XML member. It
2309 has the following attributes:
2311 @defvr {Attribute} creator
2312 The version of the software that created this SPV file, as a string of
2313 the form @code{xxyyzz}, which represents software version xx.yy.zz,
2314 e.g.@: @code{160001} is version 16.0.1. The corpus includes major
2315 versions 16 through 19.
2318 @defvr {Attribute} date
2319 The date on the which the file was created, as a string of the form
2323 @defvr {Attribute} lang
2324 The locale used for output, in Windows format, which is similar to the
2325 format used in Unix with the underscore replaced by a hyphen, e.g.@:
2326 @code{en-US}, @code{en-GB}, @code{el-GR}, @code{sr-Cryl-RS}.
2329 @defvr {Attribute} name
2330 The title of the pivot table, localized to the output language.
2333 @defvr {Attribute} style
2334 The base style for the pivot table. In every example in the corpus,
2335 the @code{style} element has no attributes other than @code{id}.
2338 @defvr {Attribute} type
2339 A floating-point number. The meaning is unknown.
2342 @defvr {Attribute} version
2343 The visualization schema version number. In the corpus, the value is
2344 one of 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, and 2.8.
2347 The @code{userSource} element has no visible effect.
2349 The @code{extension} element as a child of @code{visualization} has
2350 the following attributes.
2352 @defvr {Attribute} numRows
2353 An integer that presumably defines the number of rows in the displayed
2357 @defvr {Attribute} showGridline
2358 Always set to @code{false} in the corpus.
2361 @defvr {Attribute} minWidthSet
2362 @defvrx {Attribute} maxWidthSet
2363 Always set to @code{true} in the corpus.
2366 The @code{extension} element as a child of @code{container} has the
2369 @defvr {Attribute} combinedFootnotes
2373 The @code{categoricalDomain} and @code{simpleSort} elements have no
2376 The @code{layerController} element has no visible effect.
2378 @node SPV Detail Variable Elements
2379 @subsection Variable Elements
2381 A ``variable'' in detail XML is a 1-dimensional array of data. Each
2382 element of the array may, independently, have string or numeric
2383 content. All of the variables in a given detail XML member either
2384 have the same number of elements or have zero elements.
2386 Two different elements define variables and their content:
2389 @item sourceVariable
2390 These variables' data comes from the associated @code{tableData.bin}
2393 @item derivedVariable
2394 These variables are defined in terms of a mapping function from a
2395 source variable, or they are empty.
2398 A variable named @code{cell} always exists. This variable holds the
2399 data displayed in the table.
2401 Variables in detail XML roughly correspond to the dimensions in a
2402 light detail member. Each dimension has the following variables with
2403 stylized names, where @var{n} is a number for the dimension starting
2407 @item dimension@var{n}categories
2408 The dimension's leaf categories (@pxref{SPV Light Member Categories}).
2410 @item dimension@var{n}group0
2411 Present only if the dimension's categories are grouped, this variable
2412 holds the group labels for the categories. Grouping is inferred
2413 through adjacent identical labels. Categories that are not part of a
2414 group have empty-string data in this variable.
2416 @item dimension@var{n}group1
2417 Present only if the first-level groups are further grouped, this
2418 variable holds the labels for the second-level groups. There can be
2419 additional variables with further levels of grouping.
2421 @item dimension@var{n}
2425 Determining the data for a (non-empty) variable is a multi-step
2430 Draw initial data from its source, for a @code{sourceVariable}, or
2431 from another named variable, for a @code{derivedVariable}.
2434 Apply mappings from @code{valueMapEntry} elements within the
2435 @code{derivedVariable} element, if any.
2438 Apply mappings from @code{relabel} elements within a @code{format} or
2439 @code{stringFormat} element in the @code{sourceVariable} or
2440 @code{derivedVariable} element, if any.
2443 If the variable is a @code{sourceVariable} with a @code{labelVariable}
2444 attribute, and there were no mappings to apply in previous steps, then
2445 replace each element of the variable by the corresponding value in the
2449 A single variable's data can be modified in two of the steps, if both
2450 @code{valueMapEntry} and @code{relabel} are used. The following
2451 example from the corpus maps several integers to 2, then maps 2 in
2452 turn to the string ``Input'':
2455 <derivedVariable categorical="true" dependsOn="dimension0categories"
2456 id="dimension0group0map" value="map(dimension0group0)">
2458 <relabel from="2" to="Input"/>
2459 <relabel from="10" to="Missing Value Handling"/>
2460 <relabel from="14" to="Resources"/>
2461 <relabel from="0" to=""/>
2462 <relabel from="1" to=""/>
2463 <relabel from="13" to=""/>
2465 <valueMapEntry from="2;3;5;6;7;8;9" to="2"/>
2466 <valueMapEntry from="10;11" to="10"/>
2467 <valueMapEntry from="14;15" to="14"/>
2468 <valueMapEntry from="0" to="0"/>
2469 <valueMapEntry from="1" to="1"/>
2470 <valueMapEntry from="13" to="13"/>
2475 * SPV Detail sourceVariable Element::
2476 * SPV Detail derivedVariable Element::
2477 * SPV Detail valueMapEntry Element::
2480 @node SPV Detail sourceVariable Element
2481 @subsubsection The @code{sourceVariable} Element
2488 :domain=ref categoricalDomain?
2490 :dependsOn=ref sourceVariable?
2492 :labelVariable=ref sourceVariable?
2493 => variable_extension* (format | stringFormat)?
2496 This element defines a variable whose data comes from the
2497 @file{tableData.bin} member that corresponds to this @file{.xml}.
2499 This element has the following attributes.
2501 @defvr {Attribute} id
2502 An @code{id} is always present because this element exists to be
2503 referenced from other elements.
2506 @defvr {Attribute} categorical
2507 Always set to @code{true}.
2510 @defvr {Attribute} source
2511 Always set to @code{tableData}, the @code{source-name} in the
2512 corresponding @file{tableData.bin} member (@pxref{SPV Legacy Member
2516 @defvr {Attribute} sourceName
2517 The name of a variable within the source, corresponding to the
2518 @code{variable-name} in the @file{tableData.bin} member (@pxref{SPV
2519 Legacy Member Numeric Data}).
2522 @defvr {Attribute} label
2523 The variable label, if any.
2526 @defvr {Attribute} labelVariable
2527 The @code{variable-name} of a variable whose string values correspond
2528 one-to-one with the values of this variable and are suitable for use
2532 @defvr {Attribute} dependsOn
2533 This attribute doesn't affect the display of a table.
2536 @node SPV Detail derivedVariable Element
2537 @subsubsection The @code{derivedVariable} Element
2544 :dependsOn=ref sourceVariable?
2545 => variable_extension* (format | stringFormat)? valueMapEntry*
2548 Like @code{sourceVariable}, this element defines a variable whose
2549 values can be used elsewhere in the visualization. Instead of being
2550 read from a data source, the variable's data are defined by a
2551 mathematical expression.
2553 This element has the following attributes.
2555 @defvr {Attribute} id
2556 An @code{id} is always present because this element exists to be
2557 referenced from other elements.
2560 @defvr {Attribute} categorical
2561 Always set to @code{true}.
2564 @defvr {Attribute} value
2565 An expression that defines the variable's value. In theory this could
2566 be an arbitrary expression in terms of constants, functions, and other
2567 variables, e.g.@: @math{(@var{var1} + @var{var2}) / 2}. In practice,
2568 the corpus contains only the following forms of expressions:
2572 @itemx constant(@var{variable})
2573 All zeros. The reason why a variable is sometimes named is unknown.
2574 Sometimes the ``variable name'' has spaces in it.
2576 @item map(@var{variable})
2577 Transforms the values in the named @var{variable} using the
2578 @code{valueMapEntry}s contained within the element.
2582 @defvr {Attribute} dependsOn
2583 This attribute doesn't affect the display of a table.
2586 @node SPV Detail valueMapEntry Element
2587 @subsubsection The @code{valueMapEntry} Element
2590 valueMapEntry :from :to => EMPTY
2593 A @code{valueMapEntry} element defines a mapping from one or more
2594 values of a source expression to a target value. (In the corpus, the
2595 source expression is always just the name of a variable.) Each target
2596 value requires a separate @code{valueMapEntry}. If multiple source
2597 values map to the same target value, they can be combined or separate.
2599 In the corpus, all of the source and target values are integers.
2601 @code{valueMapEntry} has the following attributes.
2603 @defvr {Attribute} from
2604 A source value, or multiple source values separated by semicolons,
2605 e.g.@: @code{0} or @code{13;14;15;16}.
2608 @defvr {Attribute} to
2609 The target value, e.g.@: @code{0}.
2612 @node SPV Detail extension Element
2613 @subsection The @code{extension} Element
2615 This is a general-purpose ``extension'' element. Readers that don't
2616 understand a given extension should be able to safely ignore it. The
2617 attributes on this element, and their meanings, vary based on the
2618 context. Each known usage is described separately below. The current
2619 extensions use attributes exclusively, without any nested elements.
2621 @subsubheading @code{container} Parent Element
2624 extension[container_extension] :combinedFootnotes=(true) => EMPTY
2627 With @code{container} as its parent element, @code{extension} has the
2628 following attributes.
2630 @defvr {Attribute} combinedFootnotes
2631 Always set to @code{true} in the corpus.
2634 @subsubheading @code{sourceVariable} and @code{derivedVariable} Parent Element
2637 extension[variable_extension] :from :helpId => EMPTY
2640 With @code{sourceVariable} or @code{derivedVariable} as its parent
2641 element, @code{extension} has the following attributes. A given
2642 parent element often contains several @code{extension} elements that
2643 specify the meaning of the source data's variables or sources, e.g.@:
2646 <extension from="0" helpId="corrected_model"/>
2647 <extension from="3" helpId="error"/>
2648 <extension from="4" helpId="total_9"/>
2649 <extension from="5" helpId="corrected_total"/>
2652 More commonly they are less helpful, e.g.@:
2655 <extension from="0" helpId="notes"/>
2656 <extension from="1" helpId="notes"/>
2657 <extension from="2" helpId="notes"/>
2658 <extension from="5" helpId="notes"/>
2659 <extension from="6" helpId="notes"/>
2660 <extension from="7" helpId="notes"/>
2661 <extension from="8" helpId="notes"/>
2662 <extension from="12" helpId="notes"/>
2663 <extension from="13" helpId="no_help"/>
2664 <extension from="14" helpId="notes"/>
2667 @defvr {Attribute} from
2668 An integer or a name like ``dimension0''.
2671 @defvr {Attribute} helpId
2675 @node SPV Detail graph Element
2676 @subsection The @code{graph} Element
2680 :cellStyle=ref style
2682 => location+ coordinates faceting facetLayout interval
2684 coordinates => EMPTY
2687 @code{graph} has the following attributes.
2689 @defvr {Attribute} cellStyle
2690 @defvrx {Attribute} style
2691 Each of these is the @code{id} of a @code{style} element (@pxref{SPV
2692 Detail style Element}). The former is the default style for
2693 individual cells, the latter for the entire table.
2696 @node SPV Detail location Element
2697 @subsection The @code{location} Element
2701 :part=(height | width | top | bottom | left | right)
2702 :method=(sizeToContent | attach | fixed | same)
2705 :target=ref (labelFrame | graph | container)?
2710 Each instance of this element specifies where some part of the table
2711 frame is located. All the examples in the corpus have four instances
2712 of this element, one for each of the parts @code{height},
2713 @code{width}, @code{left}, and @code{top}. Some examples in the
2714 corpus add a fifth for part @code{bottom}, even though it is not clear
2715 how all of @code{top}, @code{bottom}, and @code{height} can be honored
2716 at the same time. In any case, @code{location} seems to have little
2717 importance in representing tables; a reader can safely ignore it.
2719 @defvr {Attribute} part
2720 The part of the table being located.
2723 @defvr {Attribute} method
2724 How the location is determined:
2728 Based on the natural size of the table. Observed only for
2729 parts @code{height} and @code{width}.
2732 Based on the location specified in @code{target}. Observed only for
2733 parts @code{top} and @code{bottom}.
2736 Using the value in @code{value}. Observed only for parts @code{top},
2737 @code{bottom}, and @code{left}.
2740 Same as the specified @code{target}. Observed only for part
2745 @defvr {Attribute} min
2746 Minimum size. Only observed with value @code{100pt}. Only observed
2747 for part @code{width}.
2750 @defvr {Dependent} target
2751 Required when @code{method} is @code{attach} or @code{same}, not
2752 observed otherwise. This identifies an element to attach to.
2753 Observed with the ID of @code{title}, @code{footnote}, @code{graph},
2757 @defvr {Dependent} value
2758 Required when @code{method} is @code{fixed}, not observed otherwise.
2759 Observed values are @code{0%}, @code{0px}, @code{1px}, and @code{3px}
2760 on parts @code{top} and @code{left}, and @code{100%} on part
2764 @node SPV Detail faceting Element
2765 @subsection The @code{faceting} Element
2768 faceting => layer[layers1]* cross layer[layers2]*
2770 cross => (unity | nest) (unity | nest)
2774 nest => variableReference[vars]+
2776 variableReference :ref=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) => EMPTY
2779 :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)
2782 :method[layer_method]=(nest)?
2787 The @code{faceting} element describes the row, column, and layer
2788 structure of the table. Its @code{cross} child determines the row and
2789 column structure, and each @code{layer} child (if any) represents a
2790 layer. Layers may appear before or after @code{cross}.
2792 The @code{cross} element describes the row and column structure of the
2793 table. It has exactly two children, the first of which describes the
2794 table's columns and the second the table's rows. Each child is a
2795 @code{nest} element if the table has any dimensions along the axis in
2796 question, otherwise a @code{unity} element.
2798 A @code{nest} element contains of one or more dimensions listed from
2799 innermost to outermost, each represented by @code{variableReference}
2800 child elements. Each variable in a dimension is listed in order.
2801 @xref{SPV Detail Variable Elements}, for information on the variables
2802 that comprise a dimension.
2804 A @code{nest} can contain a single dimension, e.g.:
2808 <variableReference ref="dimension0categories"/>
2809 <variableReference ref="dimension0group0"/>
2810 <variableReference ref="dimension0"/>
2815 A @code{nest} can contain multiple dimensions, e.g.:
2819 <variableReference ref="dimension1categories"/>
2820 <variableReference ref="dimension1group0"/>
2821 <variableReference ref="dimension1"/>
2822 <variableReference ref="dimension0categories"/>
2823 <variableReference ref="dimension0"/>
2827 A @code{nest} may have no dimensions, in which case it still has one
2828 @code{variableReference} child, which references a
2829 @code{derivedVariable} whose @code{value} attribute is
2830 @code{constant(0)}. In the corpus, such a @code{derivedVariable} has
2831 @code{row} or @code{column}, respectively, as its @code{id}. This is
2832 equivalent to using a @code{unity} element in place of @code{nest}.
2834 A @code{variableReference} element refers to a variable through its
2835 @code{ref} attribute.
2837 Each @code{layer} element represents a dimension, e.g.:
2840 <layer value="0" variable="dimension0categories" visible="true"/>
2841 <layer value="dimension0" variable="dimension0" visible="false"/>
2845 @code{layer} has the following attributes.
2847 @defvr {Attribute} variable
2848 Refers to a @code{sourceVariable} or @code{derivedVariable} element.
2851 @defvr {Attribute} value
2852 The value to select. For a category variable, this is always
2853 @code{0}; for a data variable, it is the same as the @code{variable}
2857 @defvr {Attribute} visible
2858 Whether the layer is visible. Generally, category layers are visible
2859 and data layers are not, but sometimes this attribute is omitted.
2862 @defvr {Attribute} method
2863 When present, this is always @code{nest}.
2866 @node SPV Detail facetLayout Element
2867 @subsection The @code{facetLayout} Element
2870 facetLayout => tableLayout setCellProperties[scp1]*
2871 facetLevel+ setCellProperties[scp2]*
2874 :verticalTitlesInCorner=bool
2876 :fitCells=(ticks both)?
2880 The @code{facetLayout} element and its descendants control styling for
2883 Its @code{tableLayout} child has the following attributes
2885 @defvr {Attribute} verticalTitlesInCorner
2886 If true, in the absence of corner text, row headings will be displayed
2890 @defvr {Attribute} style
2891 Refers to a @code{style} element.
2894 @defvr {Attribute} fitCells
2898 @subsubheading The @code{facetLevel} Element
2901 facetLevel :level=int :gap=dimension? => axis
2903 axis :style=ref style => label? majorTicks
2909 :tickFrameStyle=ref style
2910 :labelFrequency=int?
2920 Each @code{facetLevel} describes a @code{variableReference} or
2921 @code{layer}, and a table has one @code{facetLevel} element for
2922 each such element. For example, an SPV detail member that contains
2923 four @code{variableReference} elements and two @code{layer} elements
2924 will contain six @code{facetLevel} elements.
2926 In the corpus, @code{facetLevel} elements and the elements that they
2927 describe are always in the same order. The correspondence may also be
2928 observed in two other ways. First, one may use the @code{level}
2929 attribute, described below. Second, in the corpus, a
2930 @code{facetLevel} always has an @code{id} that is the same as the
2931 @code{id} of the element it describes with @code{_facetLevel}
2932 appended. One should not formally rely on this, of course, but it is
2933 usefully indicative.
2935 @defvr {Attribute} level
2936 A 1-based index into the @code{variableReference} and @code{layer}
2937 elements, e.g.@: a @code{facetLayout} with a @code{level} of 1
2938 describes the first @code{variableReference} in the SPV detail member,
2939 and in a member with four @code{variableReference} elements, a
2940 @code{facetLayout} with a @code{level} of 5 describes the first
2941 @code{layer} in the member.
2944 @defvr {Attribute} gap
2945 Always observed as @code{0pt}.
2948 Each @code{facetLevel} contains an @code{axis}, which in turn may
2949 contain a @code{label} for the @code{facetLevel} (@pxref{SPV Detail
2950 label Element}) and does contain a @code{majorTicks} element.
2952 @defvr {Attribute} labelAngle
2953 Normally 0. The value -90 causes inner column or outer row labels to
2954 be rotated vertically.
2957 @defvr {Attribute} style
2958 @defvrx {Attribute} tickFrameStyle
2959 Each refers to a @code{style} element. @code{style} is the style of
2960 the tick labels, @code{tickFrameStyle} the style for the frames around
2964 @node SPV Detail label Element
2965 @subsection The @code{label} Element
2970 :textFrameStyle=ref style?
2971 :purpose=(title | subTitle | subSubTitle | layer | footnote)?
2972 => text+ | descriptionGroup
2975 :target=ref faceting
2977 => (description | text)+
2979 description :name=(variable | value) => EMPTY
2983 :definesReference=int?
2984 :position=(subscript | superscript)?
2989 This element represents a label on some aspect of the table.
2991 @defvr {Attribute} style
2992 @defvrx {Attribute} textFrameStyle
2993 Each of these refers to a @code{style} element. @code{style} is the
2994 style of the label text, @code{textFrameStyle} the style for the frame
2998 @defvr {Attribute} purpose
2999 The kind of entity being labeled.
3002 A @code{descriptionGroup} concatenates one or more elements to form a
3003 label. Each element can be a @code{text} element, which contains
3004 literal text, or a @code{description} element that substitutes a value
3007 @defvr {Attribute} target
3008 The @code{id} of an element being described. In the corpus, this is
3009 always @code{faceting}.
3012 @defvr {Attribute} separator
3013 A string to separate the description of multiple groups, if the
3014 @code{target} has more than one. In the corpus, this is always a
3018 Typical contents for a @code{descriptionGroup} are a value by itself:
3020 <description name="value"/>
3022 @noindent or a variable and its value, separated by a colon:
3024 <description name="variable"/><text>:</text><description name="value"/>
3027 A @code{description} is like a macro that expands to some property of
3028 the target of its parent @code{descriptionGroup}. The @code{name}
3029 attribute specifies the property.
3031 @node SPV Detail setCellProperties Element
3032 @subsection The @code{setCellProperties} Element
3036 :applyToConverse=bool?
3037 => (setStyle | setFrameStyle | setFormat | setMetaData)* union[union_]?
3040 The @code{setCellProperties} element sets style properties of cells or
3041 row or column labels.
3043 Interpreting @code{setCellProperties} requires answering two
3044 questions: which cells or labels to style, and what styles to use.
3046 @subsubheading Which Cells?
3051 intersect => where+ | intersectWhere | alternating | EMPTY
3054 :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)
3059 :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)
3060 :variable2=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)
3063 alternating => EMPTY
3066 When @code{union} is present with @code{intersect} children, each of
3067 those children specifies a group of cells that should be styled, and
3068 the total group is all those cells taken together. When @code{union}
3069 is absent, every cell is styled. One attribute on
3070 @code{setCellProperties} affects the choice of cells:
3072 @defvr {Attribute} applyToConverse
3073 If true, this inverts the meaning of the cell selection: the selected
3074 cells are the ones @emph{not} designated. This is confusing, given
3075 the additional restrictions of @code{union}, but in the corpus
3076 @code{applyToConverse} is never present along with @code{union}.
3079 An @code{intersect} specifies restrictions on the cells to be matched.
3080 Each @code{where} child specifies which values of a given variable to
3081 include. The attributes of @code{intersect} are:
3083 @defvr {Attribute} variable
3084 Refers to a variable, e.g.@: @code{dimension0categories}. Only
3085 ``categories'' variables make sense here, but other variables, e.g.@:
3086 @code{dimension0group0map}, are sometimes seen. The reader may ignore
3090 @defvr {Attribute} include
3091 A value, or multiple values separated by semicolons,
3092 e.g.@: @code{0} or @code{13;14;15;16}.
3095 PSPP ignores @code{setCellProperties} when @code{intersectWhere} is
3098 @subsubheading What Styles?
3102 :target=ref (labeling | graph | interval | majorTicks)
3106 setMetaData :target=ref graph :key :value => EMPTY
3109 :target=ref (majorTicks | labeling)
3111 => format | numberFormat | stringFormat+ | dateTimeFormat | elapsedTimeFormat
3115 :target=ref majorTicks
3119 The @code{set*} children of @code{setCellProperties} determine the
3122 When @code{setCellProperties} contains a @code{setFormat} whose
3123 @code{target} references a @code{labeling} element, or if it contains
3124 a @code{setStyle} that references a @code{labeling} or @code{interval}
3125 element, the @code{setCellProperties} sets the style for table cells.
3126 The format from the @code{setFormat}, if present, replaces the cells'
3127 format. The style from the @code{setStyle} that references
3128 @code{labeling}, if present, replaces the label's font and cell
3129 styles, except that the background color is taken instead from the
3130 @code{interval}'s style, if present.
3132 When @code{setCellProperties} contains a @code{setFormat} whose
3133 @code{target} references a @code{majorTicks} element, or if it
3134 contains a @code{setStyle} whose @code{target} references a
3135 @code{majorTicks}, or if it contains a @code{setFrameStyle} element,
3136 the @code{setCellProperties} sets the style for row or column labels.
3137 In this case, the @code{setCellProperties} always contains a single
3138 @code{where} element whose @code{variable} designates the variable
3139 whose labels are to be styled. The format from the @code{setFormat},
3140 if present, replaces the labels' format. The style from the
3141 @code{setStyle} that references @code{majorTicks}, if present,
3142 replaces the labels' font and cell styles, except that the background
3143 color is taken instead from the @code{setFrameStyle}'s style, if
3146 When @code{setCellProperties} contains a @code{setStyle} whose
3147 @code{target} references a @code{graph} element, and one that
3148 references a @code{labeling} element, and the @code{union} element
3149 contains @code{alternating}, the @code{setCellProperties} sets the
3150 alternate foreground and background colors for the data area. The
3151 foreground color is taken from the style referenced by the
3152 @code{setStyle} that targets the @code{graph}, the background color
3153 from the @code{setStyle} for @code{labeling}.
3155 A reader may ignore a @code{setCellProperties} that only contains
3156 @code{setMetaData}, as well as @code{setMetaData} within other
3157 @code{setCellProperties}.
3159 A reader may ignore a @code{setCellProperties} whose only @code{set*}
3160 child is a @code{setStyle} that targets the @code{graph} element.
3162 @subsubheading The @code{setStyle} Element
3166 :target=ref (labeling | graph | interval | majorTicks)
3171 This element associates a style with the target.
3173 @defvr {Attribute} target
3174 The @code{id} of an element whose style is to be set.
3177 @defvr {Attribute} style
3178 The @code{id} of a @code{style} element that identifies the style to
3182 @node SPV Detail setFormat Element
3183 @subsection The @code{setFormat} Element
3187 :target=ref (majorTicks | labeling)
3189 => format | numberFormat | stringFormat+ | dateTimeFormat | elapsedTimeFormat
3192 This element sets the format of the target, ``format'' in this case
3193 meaning the SPSS print format for a variable.
3195 The details of this element vary depending on the schema version, as
3196 declared in the root @code{visualization} element's @code{version}
3197 attribute (@pxref{SPV Detail visualization Element}). A reader can
3198 interpret the content without knowing the schema version.
3200 The @code{setFormat} element itself has the following attributes.
3202 @defvr {Attribute} target
3203 Refers to an element whose style is to be set.
3206 @defvr {Attribute} reset
3207 If this is @code{true}, this format replaces the target's previous
3208 format. If it is @code{false}, the modifies the previous format.
3212 * SPV Detail numberFormat Element::
3213 * SPV Detail stringFormat Element::
3214 * SPV Detail dateTimeFormat Element::
3215 * SPV Detail elapsedTimeFormat Element::
3216 * SPV Detail format Element::
3217 * SPV Detail affix Element::
3220 @node SPV Detail numberFormat Element
3221 @subsubsection The @code{numberFormat} Element
3225 :minimumIntegerDigits=int?
3226 :maximumFractionDigits=int?
3227 :minimumFractionDigits=int?
3229 :scientific=(onlyForSmall | whenNeeded | true | false)?
3236 Specifies a format for displaying a number. The available options are
3237 a superset of those available from PSPP print formats. PSPP chooses a
3238 print format type for a @code{numberFormat} as follows:
3242 If @code{scientific} is @code{true}, uses @code{E} format.
3245 If @code{prefix} is @code{$}, uses @code{DOLLAR} format.
3248 If @code{suffix} is @code{%}, uses @code{PCT} format.
3251 If @code{useGrouping} is @code{true}, uses @code{COMMA} format.
3254 Otherwise, uses @code{F} format.
3257 For translating to a print format, PSPP uses
3258 @code{maximumFractionDigits} as the number of decimals, unless that
3259 attribute is missing or out of the range [0,15], in which case it uses
3262 @defvr {Attribute} minimumIntegerDigits
3263 Minimum number of digits to display before the decimal point. Always
3264 observed as @code{0}.
3267 @defvr {Attribute} maximumFractionDigits
3268 @defvrx {Attribute} minimumFractionDigits
3269 Maximum or minimum, respectively, number of digits to display after
3270 the decimal point. The observed values of each attribute range from 0
3274 @defvr {Attribute} useGrouping
3275 Whether to use the grouping character to group digits in large
3279 @defvr {Attribute} scientific
3280 This attribute controls when and whether the number is formatted in
3281 scientific notation. It takes the following values:
3285 Use scientific notation only when the number's magnitude is smaller
3286 than the value of the @code{small} attribute.
3289 Use scientific notation when the number will not otherwise fit in the
3293 Always use scientific notation. Not observed in the corpus.
3296 Never use scientific notation. A number that won't otherwise fit will
3297 be replaced by an error indication (see the @code{errorCharacter}
3298 attribute). Not observed in the corpus.
3302 @defvr {Attribute} small
3303 Only present when the @code{scientific} attribute is
3304 @code{onlyForSmall}, this is a numeric magnitude below which the
3305 number will be formatted in scientific notation. The values @code{0}
3306 and @code{0.0001} have been observed. The value @code{0} seems like a
3307 pathological choice, since no real number has a magnitude less than 0;
3308 perhaps in practice such a choice is equivalent to setting
3309 @code{scientific} to @code{false}.
3312 @defvr {Attribute} prefix
3313 @defvrx {Attribute} suffix
3314 Specifies a prefix or a suffix to apply to the formatted number. Only
3315 @code{suffix} has been observed, with value @samp{%}.
3318 @node SPV Detail stringFormat Element
3319 @subsubsection The @code{stringFormat} Element
3322 stringFormat => relabel* affix*
3324 relabel :from=real :to => EMPTY
3327 The @code{stringFormat} element specifies how to display a string. By
3328 default, a string is displayed verbatim, but @code{relabel} can change
3331 The @code{relabel} element appears as a child of @code{stringFormat}
3332 (and of @code{format}, when it is used to format strings). It
3333 specifies how to display a given value. It is used to implement value
3334 labels and to display the system-missing value in a human-readable
3335 way. It has the following attributes:
3337 @defvr {Attribute} from
3338 The value to map. In the corpus this is an integer or the
3339 system-missing value @code{-1.797693134862316E300}.
3342 @defvr {Attribute} to
3343 The string to display in place of the value of @code{from}. In the
3344 corpus this is a wide variety of value labels; the system-missing
3345 value is mapped to @samp{.}.
3348 @node SPV Detail dateTimeFormat Element
3349 @subsubsection The @code{dateTimeFormat} Element
3353 :baseFormat[dt_base_format]=(date | time | dateTime)
3355 :mdyOrder=(dayMonthYear | monthDayYear | yearMonthDay)?
3357 :yearAbbreviation=bool?
3362 :monthFormat=(long | short | number | paddedNumber)?
3366 :showDayOfWeek=bool?
3367 :dayOfWeekAbbreviation=bool?
3369 :dayOfMonthPadding=bool?
3371 :minutePadding=bool?
3372 :secondPadding=bool?
3378 :dayType=(month | year)?
3379 :hourFormat=(AMPM | AS_24 | AS_12)?
3383 This element appears only in schema version 2.5 and earlier
3384 (@pxref{SPV Detail visualization Element}).
3386 Data to be formatted in date formats is stored as strings in legacy
3387 data, in the format @code{yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.SSS} and must be parsed
3388 and reformatted by the reader.
3390 The following attribute is required.
3392 @defvr {Attribute} baseFormat
3393 Specifies whether a date and time are both to be displayed, or just
3397 Many of the attributes' meanings are obvious. The following seem to
3398 be worth documenting.
3400 @defvr {Attribute} separatorChars
3401 Exactly four characters. In order, these are used for: decimal point,
3402 grouping, date separator, time separator. Always @samp{.,-:}.
3405 @defvr {Attribute} mdyOrder
3406 Within a date, the order of the days, months, and years.
3407 @code{dayMonthYear} is the only observed value, but one would expect
3408 that @code{monthDayYear} and @code{yearMonthDay} to be reasonable as
3412 @defvr {Attribute} showYear
3413 @defvrx {Attribute} yearAbbreviation
3414 Whether to include the year and, if so, whether the year should be
3415 shown abbreviated, that is, with only 2 digits. Each is @code{true}
3416 or @code{false}; only values of @code{true} and @code{false},
3417 respectively, have been observed.
3420 @defvr {Attribute} showMonth
3421 @defvrx {Attribute} monthFormat
3422 Whether to include the month (@code{true} or @code{false}) and, if so,
3423 how to format it. @code{monthFormat} is one of the following:
3427 The full name of the month, e.g.@: in an English locale,
3431 The abbreviated name of the month, e.g.@: in an English locale,
3435 The number representing the month, e.g.@: 9 for September.
3438 A two-digit number representing the month, e.g.@: 09 for September.
3441 Only values of @code{true} and @code{short}, respectively, have been
3445 @defvr {Attribute} dayType
3446 This attribute is always @code{month} in the corpus, specifying that
3447 the day of the month is to be displayed; a value of @code{year} is
3448 supposed to indicate that the day of the year, where 1 is January 1,
3449 is to be displayed instead.
3452 @defvr {Attribute} hourFormat
3453 @code{hourFormat}, if present, is one of:
3457 The time is displayed with an @code{am} or @code{pm} suffix, e.g.@:
3461 The time is displayed in a 24-hour format, e.g.@: @code{22:15}.
3463 This is the only value observed in the corpus.
3466 The time is displayed in a 12-hour format, without distinguishing
3467 morning or evening, e.g.@: @code{10;15}.
3470 @code{hourFormat} is sometimes present for @code{elapsedTime} formats,
3471 which is confusing since a time duration does not have a concept of AM
3472 or PM. This might indicate a bug in the code that generated the XML
3473 in the corpus, or it might indicate that @code{elapsedTime} is
3474 sometimes used to format a time of day.
3477 For a @code{baseFormat} of @code{date}, PSPP chooses a print format
3478 type based on the following rules:
3482 If @code{showQuarter} is true: @code{QYR}.
3485 Otherwise, if @code{showWeek} is true: @code{WKYR}.
3488 Otherwise, if @code{mdyOrder} is @code{dayMonthYear}:
3492 If @code{monthFormat} is @code{number} or @code{paddedNumber}: @code{EDATE}.
3495 Otherwise: @code{DATE}.
3499 Otherwise, if @code{mdyOrder} is @code{yearMonthDay}: @code{SDATE}.
3502 Otherwise, @code{ADATE}.
3505 For a @code{baseFormat} of @code{dateTime}, PSPP uses @code{YMDHMS} if
3506 @code{mdyOrder} is @code{yearMonthDay} and @code{DATETIME} otherwise.
3507 For a @code{baseFormat} of @code{time}, PSPP uses @code{DTIME} if
3508 @code{showDay} is true, otherwise @code{TIME} if @code{showHour} is
3509 true, otherwise @code{MTIME}.
3511 For a @code{baseFormat} of @code{date}, the chosen width is the
3512 minimum for the format type, adding 2 if @code{yearAbbreviation} is
3513 false or omitted. For other base formats, the chosen width is the
3514 minimum for its type, plus 3 if @code{showSecond} is true, plus 4 more
3515 if @code{showMillis} is also true. Decimals are 0 by default, or 3
3516 if @code{showMillis} is true.
3518 @node SPV Detail elapsedTimeFormat Element
3519 @subsubsection The @code{elapsedTimeFormat} Element
3523 :baseFormat[dt_base_format]=(date | time | dateTime)
3526 :minutePadding=bool?
3527 :secondPadding=bool?
3537 This element specifies the way to display a time duration.
3539 Data to be formatted in elapsed time formats is stored as strings in
3540 legacy data, in the format @code{H:MM:SS.SSS}, with additional hour
3541 digits as needed for long durations, and must be parsed and
3542 reformatted by the reader.
3544 The following attribute is required.
3546 @defvr {Attribute} baseFormat
3547 Specifies whether a day and a time are both to be displayed, or just
3551 The remaining attributes specify exactly how to display the elapsed
3554 For @code{baseFormat} of @code{time}, PSPP converts this element to
3555 print format type @code{DTIME}; otherwise, if @code{showHour} is true,
3556 to @code{TIME}; otherwise, to @code{MTIME}. The chosen width is the
3557 minimum for the chosen type, adding 3 if @code{showSecond} is true,
3558 adding 4 more if @code{showMillis} is also true. Decimals are 0 by
3559 default, or 3 if @code{showMillis} is true.
3561 @node SPV Detail format Element
3562 @subsubsection The @code{format} Element
3566 :baseFormat[f_base_format]=(date | time | dateTime | elapsedTime)?
3569 :mdyOrder=(dayMonthYear | monthDayYear | yearMonthDay)?
3574 :yearAbbreviation=bool?
3576 :monthFormat=(long | short | number | paddedNumber)?
3578 :dayOfMonthPadding=bool?
3582 :showDayOfWeek=bool?
3583 :dayOfWeekAbbreviation=bool?
3585 :minutePadding=bool?
3586 :secondPadding=bool?
3592 :dayType=(month | year)?
3593 :hourFormat=(AMPM | AS_24 | AS_12)?
3594 :minimumIntegerDigits=int?
3595 :maximumFractionDigits=int?
3596 :minimumFractionDigits=int?
3598 :scientific=(onlyForSmall | whenNeeded | true | false)?
3602 :tryStringsAsNumbers=bool?
3603 :negativesOutside=bool?
3607 This element is the union of all of the more-specific format elements.
3608 It is interpreted in the same way as one of those format elements,
3609 using @code{baseFormat} to determine which kind of format to use.
3611 There are a few attributes not present in the more specific formats:
3613 @defvr {Attribute} tryStringsAsNumbers
3614 When this is @code{true}, it is supposed to indicate that string
3615 values should be parsed as numbers and then displayed according to
3616 numeric formatting rules. However, in the corpus it is always
3620 @defvr {Attribute} negativesOutside
3621 If true, the negative sign should be shown before the prefix; if
3622 false, it should be shown after.
3625 @node SPV Detail affix Element
3626 @subsubsection The @code{affix} Element
3630 :definesReference=int
3631 :position=(subscript | superscript)
3637 This defines a suffix (or, theoretically, a prefix) for a formatted
3638 value. It is used to insert a reference to a footnote. It has the
3639 following attributes:
3641 @defvr {Attribute} definesReference
3642 This specifies the footnote number as a natural number: 1 for the
3643 first footnote, 2 for the second, and so on.
3646 @defvr {Attribute} position
3647 Position for the footnote label. Always @code{superscript}.
3650 @defvr {Attribute} suffix
3651 Whether the affix is a suffix (@code{true}) or a prefix
3652 (@code{false}). Always @code{true}.
3655 @defvr {Attribute} value
3656 The text of the suffix or prefix. Typically a letter, e.g.@: @code{a}
3657 for footnote 1, @code{b} for footnote 2, @enddots{} The corpus
3658 contains other values: @code{*}, @code{**}, and a few that begin with
3659 at least one comma: @code{,b}, @code{,c}, @code{,,b}, and @code{,,c}.
3662 @node SPV Detail interval Element
3663 @subsection The @code{interval} Element
3666 interval :style=ref style => labeling footnotes?
3670 :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)
3671 => (formatting | format | footnotes)*
3673 formatting :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) => formatMapping*
3675 formatMapping :from=int => format?
3679 :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)
3682 footnoteMapping :definesReference=int :from=int :to => EMPTY
3685 The @code{interval} element and its descendants determine the basic
3686 formatting and labeling for the table's cells. These basic styles are
3687 overridden by more specific styles set using @code{setCellProperties}
3688 (@pxref{SPV Detail setCellProperties Element}).
3690 The @code{style} attribute of @code{interval} itself may be ignored.
3692 The @code{labeling} element may have a single @code{formatting} child.
3693 If present, its @code{variable} attribute refers to a variable whose
3694 values are format specifiers as numbers, e.g. value 0x050802 for F8.2.
3695 However, the numbers are not actually interpreted that way. Instead,
3696 each number actually present in the variable's data is mapped by a
3697 @code{formatMapping} child of @code{formatting} to a @code{format}
3698 that specifies how to display it.
3700 The @code{labeling} element may also have a @code{footnotes} child
3701 element. The @code{variable} attribute of this element refers to a
3702 variable whose values are comma-delimited strings that list the
3703 1-based indexes of footnote references. (Cells without any footnote
3704 references are numeric 0 instead of strings.)
3706 Each @code{footnoteMapping} child of the @code{footnotes} element
3707 defines the footnote marker to be its @code{to} attribute text for the
3708 footnote whose 1-based index is given in its @code{definesReference}
3711 @node SPV Detail style Element
3712 @subsection The @code{style} Element
3719 :border-bottom=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)?
3720 :border-top=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)?
3721 :border-left=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)?
3722 :border-right=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)?
3723 :border-bottom-color?
3726 :border-right-color?
3729 :font-weight=(regular | bold)?
3730 :font-style=(regular | italic)?
3731 :font-underline=(none | underline)?
3732 :margin-bottom=dimension?
3733 :margin-left=dimension?
3734 :margin-right=dimension?
3735 :margin-top=dimension?
3736 :textAlignment=(left | right | center | decimal | mixed)?
3737 :labelLocationHorizontal=(positive | negative | center)?
3738 :labelLocationVertical=(positive | negative | center)?
3739 :decimal-offset=dimension?
3746 A @code{style} element has an effect only when it is referenced by
3747 another element to set some aspect of the table's style. Most of the
3748 attributes are self-explanatory. The rest are described below.
3750 @defvr {Attribute} {color}
3751 In some cases, the text color; in others, the background color.
3754 @defvr {Attribute} {color2}
3758 @defvr {Attribute} {labelAngle}
3759 Normally 0. The value -90 causes inner column or outer row labels to
3760 be rotated vertically.
3763 @defvr {Attribute} {labelLocationHorizontal}
3767 @defvr {Attribute} {labelLocationVertical}
3768 The value @code{positive} corresponds to vertically aligning text to
3769 the top of a cell, @code{negative} to the bottom, @code{center} to the
3773 @node SPV Detail labelFrame Element
3774 @subsection The @code{labelFrame} Element
3777 labelFrame :style=ref style => location+ label? paragraph?
3779 paragraph :hangingIndent=dimension? => EMPTY
3782 A @code{labelFrame} element specifies content and style for some
3783 aspect of a table. Only @code{labelFrame} elements that have a
3784 @code{label} child are important. The @code{purpose} attribute in the
3785 @code{label} determines what the @code{labelFrame} affects:
3789 The table's title and its style.
3792 The table's caption and its style.
3795 The table's footnotes and the style for the footer area.
3798 The style for the layer area.
3804 The @code{style} attribute references the style to use for the area.
3806 The @code{label}, if present, specifies the text to put into the title
3807 or caption or footnotes. For footnotes, the label has two @code{text}
3808 children for every footnote, each of which has a @code{usesReference}
3809 attribute identifying the 1-based index of a footnote. The first,
3810 third, fifth, @dots{} @code{text} child specifies the content for a
3811 footnote; the second, fourth, sixth, @dots{} child specifies the
3812 marker. Content tends to end in a new-line, which the reader may wish
3813 to trim; similarly, markers tend to end in @samp{.}.
3815 The @code{paragraph}, if present, may be ignored, since it is always
3818 @node SPV Detail Legacy Properties
3819 @subsection Legacy Properties
3821 The detail XML format has features for styling most of the aspects of
3822 a table. It also inherits defaults for many aspects from structure
3823 XML, which has the following @code{tableProperties} element:
3828 => generalProperties footnoteProperties cellFormatProperties borderProperties printingProperties
3831 :hideEmptyRows=bool?
3832 :maximumColumnWidth=dimension?
3833 :maximumRowWidth=dimension?
3834 :minimumColumnWidth=dimension?
3835 :minimumRowWidth=dimension?
3836 :rowDimensionLabels=(inCorner | nested)?
3840 :markerPosition=(superscript | subscript)?
3841 :numberFormat=(alphabetic | numeric)?
3844 cellFormatProperties => cell_style+
3847 :alternatingColor=color?
3848 :alternatingTextColor=color?
3856 :font-style=(regular | italic)?
3857 :font-weight=(regular | bold)?
3858 :font-underline=(none | underline)?
3859 :labelLocationVertical=(positive | negative | center)?
3860 :margin-bottom=dimension?
3861 :margin-left=dimension?
3862 :margin-right=dimension?
3863 :margin-top=dimension?
3864 :textAlignment=(left | right | center | decimal | mixed)?
3865 :decimal-offset=dimension?
3868 borderProperties => border_style+
3871 :borderStyleType=(none | solid | dashed | thick | thin | double)?
3876 :printAllLayers=bool?
3877 :rescaleLongTableToFitPage=bool?
3878 :rescaleWideTableToFitPage=bool?
3879 :windowOrphanLines=int?
3881 :continuationTextAtBottom=bool?
3882 :continuationTextAtTop=bool?
3883 :printEachLayerOnSeparatePage=bool?
3887 The @code{name} attribute appears only in standalone @file{.stt} files
3888 (@pxref{SPSS TableLook STT Format}).