An an aside, SPSS 15 and earlier versions use a completely different
output format based on the Microsoft Compound Document Format. This
-format is not documented.
+format is not documented here.
An SPV file is a Zip archive that can be read with @command{zipinfo}
and @command{unzip} and similar programs. The final member in the Zip
Structure members use a different XML namespace for each schema, but
these namespaces are not entirely consistent: in some SPV files, for
example, the @code{viewer-tree} schema is associated with namespace
-@indicateurl{http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer-tree} and in other with
+@indicateurl{http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer-tree} and in others with
@indicateurl{http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer/viewer-tree} (note the
-additional @file{viewer/} directory. In any case, the schema URIs are
+additional @file{viewer/}). In any case, the schema URIs are
not resolvable to obtain the schemas themselves.
One may ignore all of the above in interpreting a structure member.
that was executed, e.g.@: ``Frequencies'' or ``T-Test''. Labels are
often very generic, especially within a @code{container}, e.g.@:
``Title'' or ``Warnings'' or ``Notes''. Label text is localized
-according to the output language, e.g. in Italian a frequency table
+according to the output language, e.g.@: in Italian a frequency table
procedure is labeled ``Frequenze''.
The corpus contains one example of an empty label, one that contains
@example
value := 00? 00? 00? 00? raw-value
raw-value :=
- 01 value-mod int32[format] double[x]
- | 02 value-mod int32[format] double[x]
+ 01 value-mod int[format] double[x]
+ | 02 value-mod int[format] double[x]
string[varname] string[vallab] (01 | 02 | 03)
| 03 string[local] value-mod string[id] string[c] (00 | 01)[type]
- | 04 value-mod int32[format] string[vallab] string[varname]
+ | 04 value-mod int[format] string[vallab] string[varname]
(01 | 02 | 03) string[s]
| 05 value-mod string[varname] string[varlabel] (01 | 02 | 03)
- | value-mod string[format] int32[n-args] arg*[n-args]
+ | value-mod string[format] int[n-args] arg*[n-args]
arg :=
i0 value
- | int32[x] i0 value*[x + 1] /* @r{x > 0} */
+ | int[x] i0 value*[x + 1] /* @r{x > 0} */
@end example
A @code{value} boils down to a number or a string. There are several
value-mod :=
31 i0 (i0 | i1 string[subscript]) value-mod-i0-v1 /* @r{version 1} */
| 31 i0 (i0 | i1 string[subscript]) value-mod-i0-v3 /* @r{version 3} */
- | 31 i1 int32[footnote-number] format
+ | 31 i1 int[footnote-number] format
| 31 i2 (00 | 01 | 02) 00 (i1 | i2 | i3) format
| 31 i3 00 00 01 00 i2 format
| 58
-value-mod-i0-v1 := 00 (i1 | i2) 00 00 int32 00 00
+value-mod-i0-v1 := 00 (i1 | i2) 00 00 int 00 00
value-mod-i0-v3 := count(format-string
(58 | 31 style)
(58
The @code{style}, if present, changes the style for this individual
@code{value}.
@end itemize
+
+@node SPV Legacy Detail Member Binary Format
+@subsection SPV Legacy Detail Member Binary Format
+
+Whereas the light binary format represents everything about a given
+pivot table, the legacy binary format conceptually consists of a
+number of named sources, each of which consists of a number of named
+series, each of which is a 1-dimensional array of numbers or strings
+or a mix. Thus, the legacy binary file format is quite simple.
+
+@example
+legacy-binary := 00 byte[version] int16[n-sources] int[file-size]
+ metadata*[n-sources] data*[n-sources]
+@end example
+
+@code{version} is a version number that affects the interpretation of
+some of the other data in the member. Versions 0xaf and 0xb0 are
+known. We will refer to ``version 0xaf'' and ``version 0xb0'' members
+later on.
+
+A legacy member consists of @code{n-sources} data sources, each of
+which has @code{metadata} and @code{data}.
+
+@code{file-size} is the size of the file, in bytes.
+
+@example
+/* @r{version 0xaf} */
+metadata := int[per-series] int[n-series] int[ofs] byte*32[source-name]
+
+/* @r{version 0xb0} */
+metadata := int[per-series] int[n-series] int[ofs] byte*64[source-name] int[x]
+@end example
+
+A data source consists of @code{n-series} series of data, with
+@code{per-series} data values per series.
+
+@code{source-name} is a 32- or 64-byte string padded on the right with
+zero bytes. The names that appear in the corpus are very generic,
+usually @code{tableData} or @code{source0}.
+
+The @code{ofs} is the offset, in bytes, from the beginning of the file
+to the start of this data source's @code{data}. This allows programs
+to skip to the beginning of the data for a particular source; it is
+also important to determine whether a source includes any string data
+(see below).
+
+The meaning of @code{x} in version 0xb0 is unknown.
+
+@example
+data := numeric-data string-data?
+numeric-data := numeric-series*[n-series]
+numeric-series := byte*288[series-name] double*[per-series]
+@end example
+
+Data follow the metadata in the legacy binary format, with sources in
+the same order. Each series begins with a @code{series-name}, which
+generally indicates its role in the pivot table, e.g.@: ``cell'',
+``cellFormat'', ``dimension0categories'', ``dimension0group0''. The
+name is followed by the data, one double per element in the series. A
+double with the maximum negative double @code{-DBL_MAX} represents the
+system-missing value SYSMIS.
+
+@example
+string-data := i1 string[source-name] pairs labels
+
+pairs := int[n-string-series] pair-series*[n-string-series]
+pair-series := string[pair-series-name] int[n-pairs] pair*[n-pairs]
+pair := int[i] int[j]
+
+labels := int[n-labels] label*[n-labels]
+label := int[frequency] int[s]
+@end example
+
+A source may include a mix of numeric and string data values. When a
+source includes any string data, the data values that are strings are
+set to SYSMIS in the @code{numeric-series}, and @code{string-data}
+follows the @code{numeric-data}. To reliably determine whether a
+source includes @code{string-data}, the reader should check whether
+the offset following the @code{numeric-data} is the offset of the next
+series, as indicated by its @code{metadata} (or end of file, in the
+case of the last source in a file).
+
+@code{string-data} repeats the name of the source.
+
+The string data overlays the numeric data. @code{n-string-series} is
+the number of series within the source that include string data. More
+precisely, it is the 1-based index of the last series in the source
+that includes any string data; thus, it would be 4 if there are 5
+series and only the fourth one includes string data.
+
+Each @code{pair-series} consists a sequence of 0 or more pairs, each
+of which maps from a 0-based index within the series @code{i} to a
+0-based label index @code{j}. The pair @code{i} = 2, @code{j} = 3,
+for example, would mean that the third data value (with value SYSMIS)
+is to be replaced by the string of the fourth label.
+
+The labels themselves follow the pairs. The valuable part of each
+label is the string @code{s}. Each label also includes a
+@code{frequency} that reports the number of pairs that reference it
+(although this is not useful).