Date:         Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:04:20 -0800
Reply-To:     Ryan Howard <ryanghoward@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Ryan Howard <ryanghoward@COMCAST.NET>
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Subject:      Re: XML question
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Tony,

>From reading your message, I suspect that you are making some wrong
assumptions about XML.  XML is not intended to be easily read by
humans, it is only a data format that can be accessed by many
programming languages.

If you need to convert an XML file to a sas dataset, you can do this by
writing a few rather complex data steps very specific to the input
file.  However, before attempting this I reccomend asking the creater
of the data to send data in a more sas friendly format.  However, in
some circumstances, the XML libname statement may work for you.  You
can read about this on the sas web site.

http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/topics/sxle82/prod82/

The following is a link to the sas XML resource page.
http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/index-xml-resources.html

If you have created an XML document, you may need to create a xhtml
style sheet to display it in a human readable format.  However,
creating html style sheets is far from my area of expertese.  This will
require some research for you.

-Ryan
Tony Yang wrote: