GNU PSPP Developers Guide 1 Introduction 2 Basic Concepts 2.1 Values 2.1.1 Numeric Values 2.1.2 String Values 2.1.3 Runtime Typed Values 2.2 Input and Output Formats 2.2.1 Constructing and Verifying Formats 2.2.2 Format Utility Functions 2.2.3 Obtaining Properties of Format Types 2.2.4 Numeric Formatting Styles 2.2.5 Formatted Data Input and Output 2.3 User-Missing Values 2.3.1 Testing for Missing Values 2.3.2 Creation and Destruction 2.3.3 Changing User-Missing Value Set Width 2.3.4 Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets 2.3.5 Modifying User-Missing Value Sets 2.4 Value Labels 2.4.1 Creation and Destruction 2.4.2 Value Labels Properties 2.4.3 Adding and Removing Labels 2.4.4 Iterating through Value Labels 2.5 Variables 2.5.1 Variable Name 2.5.2 Variable Type and Width 2.5.3 Variable Missing Values 2.5.4 Variable Value Labels 2.5.5 Variable Print and Write Formats 2.5.6 Variable Labels 2.5.7 GUI Attributes 2.5.8 Variable Leave Status 2.5.9 Dictionary Class 2.5.10 Variable Creation and Destruction 2.5.11 Variable Short Names 2.5.12 Variable Relationships 2.5.13 Variable Auxiliary Data 2.5.14 Variable Categorical Values 2.6 Dictionaries 2.6.1 Accessing Variables 2.6.2 Creating Variables 2.6.3 Deleting Variables 2.6.4 Changing Variable Order 2.6.5 Renaming Variables 2.6.6 Weight Variable 2.6.7 Filter Variable 2.6.8 Case Limit 2.6.9 Split Variables 2.6.10 File Label 2.6.11 Documents 2.7 Coding Conventions 2.8 Cases 2.9 Data Sets 2.10 Pools 3 Parsing Command Syntax 4 Processing Data 5 Presenting Output 6 Internationalisation 6.1 The working locales 6.1.1 The user interface locale 6.1.2 The output locale 6.1.3 The data locale 6.2 System files 6.3 GUI 6.3.1 Filenames 6.4 Existing locale handling functions 6.5 Quirks 7 Graphic User Interface 8 Function Index 9 Concept Index Appendix A Portable File Format A.1 Portable File Characters A.2 Portable File Structure A.3 Portable File Header A.4 Version and Date Info Record A.5 Identification Records A.6 Variable Count Record A.7 Precision Record A.8 Case Weight Variable Record A.9 Variable Records A.10 Value Label Records A.11 Document Record A.12 Portable File Data Appendix B System File Format B.1 System File Record Structure B.2 File Header Record B.3 Variable Record B.4 Value Labels Records B.5 Document Record B.6 Machine Integer Info Record B.7 Machine Floating-Point Info Record B.8 Multiple Response Sets Records B.9 Extra Product Info Record B.10 Variable Display Parameter Record B.11 Long Variable Names Record B.12 Very Long String Record B.13 Character Encoding Record B.14 Long String Value Labels Record B.15 Long String Missing Values Record B.16 Data File and Variable Attributes Records B.16.1 Variable Roles B.17 Extended Number of Cases Record B.18 Other Informational Records B.19 Dictionary Termination Record B.20 Data Record Appendix C SPSS/PC+ System File Format C.1 Record 0: Main Header Record C.2 Record 1: Variables Record C.3 Record 2: Labels Record C.4 Record 3: Data Record C.5 Records 4 and 5: Data Entry Appendix D SPSS Viewer File Format D.1 Structure Member Format D.1.1 The 'heading' Element D.1.2 The 'label' Element D.1.3 The 'container' Element D.1.4 The 'text' Element (Inside 'container') D.1.5 The 'html' Element D.1.6 The 'table' Element D.1.7 The 'graph' Element D.1.8 The 'model' Element D.1.9 The 'object' and 'image' Elements D.1.10 The 'tree' Element D.1.11 Path Elements D.1.12 The 'pageSetup' Element D.1.13 The 'text' Element (Inside 'pageParagraph') D.2 Light Detail Member Format D.2.1 Header D.2.2 Titles D.2.3 Footnotes D.2.4 Areas D.2.5 Borders D.2.6 Print Settings D.2.7 Table Settings D.2.8 Formats D.2.9 Dimensions D.2.10 Categories D.2.11 Axes D.2.12 Cells D.2.13 Value D.2.14 ValueMod D.3 Legacy Detail Member Binary Format D.3.1 Metadata D.3.2 Numeric Data D.3.3 String Data D.4 Legacy Detail Member XML Format D.4.1 The 'visualization' Element D.4.2 Variable Elements D.4.2.1 The 'sourceVariable' Element D.4.2.2 The 'derivedVariable' Element D.4.2.3 The 'valueMapEntry' Element D.4.3 The 'extension' Element D.4.4 The 'graph' Element D.4.5 The 'location' Element D.4.6 The 'faceting' Element D.4.7 The 'facetLayout' Element D.4.8 The 'label' Element D.4.9 The 'setCellProperties' Element D.4.10 The 'setFormat' Element D.4.10.1 The 'numberFormat' Element D.4.10.2 The 'stringFormat' Element D.4.10.3 The 'dateTimeFormat' Element D.4.10.4 The 'elapsedTimeFormat' Element D.4.10.5 The 'format' Element D.4.10.6 The 'affix' Element D.4.11 The 'interval' Element D.4.12 The 'style' Element D.4.13 The 'labelFrame' Element D.4.14 Legacy Properties Appendix E SPSS TableLook File Formats E.1 The '.stt' Format E.2 The '.tlo' Format E.2.1 'PTTableLook' E.2.2 'PVSeparatorStyle' E.2.3 'PVCellStyle' and 'PVTextStyle' E.2.4 'V2Styles' F Encrypted File Wrappers F.1 Common Wrapper Format F.1.1 Checking Passwords F.2 Password Encoding Appendix G GNU Free Documentation License GNU PSPP Developers Guide ************************* This manual is for GNU PSPP version 1.6.1-ga421d8, software for statistical analysis. Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". 1 Introduction ************** This manual is a guide to PSPP internals. Its intended audience is developers who wish to modify or extend PSPP's capabilities. The use of PSPP is documented in a separate manual. *Note Introduction: (pspp)Top. This manual is both a tutorial and a reference manual for PSPP developers. It is ultimately intended to cover everything that developers who wish to implement new PSPP statistical procedures and other commands should know. It is currently incomplete, partly because existing developers have not yet spent enough time on writing, and partly because the interfaces not yet documented are not yet mature enough to making documenting them worthwhile. PSPP developers should have some familiarity with the basics of PSPP from a user's perspective. This manual attempts to refer to the PSPP user manual's descriptions of concepts that PSPP users should find familiar at the time of their first reference. However, it is probably a good idea to at least skim the PSPP manual before reading this one, if you are not already familiar with PSPP. 2 Basic Concepts **************** This chapter introduces basic data structures and other concepts needed for developing in PSPP. 2.1 Values ========== The unit of data in PSPP is a "value". Values are classified by "type" and "width". The type of a value is either "numeric" or "string" (sometimes called alphanumeric). The width of a string value ranges from 1 to 'MAX_STRING' bytes. The width of a numeric value is artificially defined to be 0; thus, the type of a value can be inferred from its width. Some support is provided for working with value types and widths, in 'data/val-type.h': -- Macro: int MAX_STRING Maximum width of a string value, in bytes, currently 32,767. -- Function: bool val_type_is_valid (enum val_type VAL_TYPE) Returns true if VAL_TYPE is a valid value type, that is, either 'VAL_NUMERIC' or 'VAL_STRING'. Useful for assertions. -- Function: enum val_type val_type_from_width (int WIDTH) Returns 'VAL_NUMERIC' if WIDTH is 0 and thus represents the width of a numeric value, otherwise 'VAL_STRING' to indicate that WIDTH is the width of a string value. The following subsections describe how values of each type are represented. 2.1.1 Numeric Values -------------------- A value known to be numeric at compile time is represented as a 'double'. PSPP provides three values of 'double' for special purposes, defined in 'data/val-type.h': -- Macro: double SYSMIS The "system-missing value", used to represent a datum whose true value is unknown, such as a survey question that was not answered by the respondent, or undefined, such as the result of division by zero. PSPP propagates the system-missing value through calculations and compensates for missing values in statistical analyses. *Note (pspp)Missing Observations::, for a PSPP user's view of missing values. PSPP currently defines 'SYSMIS' as '-DBL_MAX', that is, the greatest finite negative value of 'double'. It is best not to depend on this definition, because PSPP may transition to using an IEEE NaN (not a number) instead at some point in the future. -- Macro: double LOWEST -- Macro: double HIGHEST The greatest finite negative (except for 'SYSMIS') and positive values of 'double', respectively. These values do not ordinarily appear in user data files. Instead, they are used to implement endpoints of open-ended ranges that are occasionally permitted in PSPP syntax, e.g. '5 THRU HI' as a range of missing values (*note (pspp)MISSING VALUES::). 2.1.2 String Values ------------------- A value known at compile time to have string type is represented as an array of 'char'. String values do not necessarily represent readable text strings and may contain arbitrary 8-bit data, including null bytes, control codes, and bytes with the high bit set. Thus, string values are not null-terminated strings, but rather opaque arrays of bytes. 'SYSMIS', 'LOWEST', and 'HIGHEST' have no equivalents as string values. Usually, PSPP fills an unknown or undefined string values with spaces, but PSPP does not treat such a string as a special case when it processes it later. 'MAX_STRING', the maximum length of a string value, is defined in 'data/val-type.h'. 2.1.3 Runtime Typed Values -------------------------- When a value's type is only known at runtime, it is often represented as a 'union value', defined in 'data/value.h'. A 'union value' does not identify the type or width of the data it contains. Code that works with 'union values's must therefore have external knowledge of its content, often through the type and width of a 'struct variable' (*note Variables::). 'union value' has one member that clients are permitted to access directly, a 'double' named 'f' that stores the content of a numeric 'union value'. It has other members that store the content of string 'union value', but client code should use accessor functions instead of referring to these directly. PSPP provides some functions for working with 'union value's. The most useful are described below. To use these functions, recall that a numeric value has a width of 0. -- Function: void value_init (union value *VALUE, int WIDTH) Initializes VALUE as a value of the given WIDTH. After initialization, the data in VALUE are indeterminate; the caller is responsible for storing initial data in it. -- Function: void value_destroy (union value *VALUE, int WIDTH) Frees auxiliary storage associated with VALUE, which must have the given WIDTH. -- Function: bool value_needs_init (int WIDTH) For some widths, 'value_init' and 'value_destroy' do not actually do anything, because no additional storage is needed beyond the size of 'union value'. This function returns true if WIDTH is such a width, which case there is no actual need to call those functions. This can be a useful optimization if a large number of 'union value's of such a width are to be initialized or destroyed. This function returns false if 'value_init' and 'value_destroy' are actually required for the given WIDTH. -- Function: void value_copy (union value *DST, const union value *SRC, int WIDTH) Copies the contents of 'union value' SRC to DST. Both DST and SRC must have been initialized with the specified WIDTH. -- Function: void value_set_missing (union value *VALUE, int WIDTH) Sets VALUE to 'SYSMIS' if it is numeric or to all spaces if it is alphanumeric, according to WIDTH. VALUE must have been initialized with the specified WIDTH. -- Function: bool value_is_resizable (const union value *VALUE, int OLD_WIDTH, int NEW_WIDTH) Determines whether VALUE, which must have been initialized with the specified OLD_WIDTH, may be resized to NEW_WIDTH. Resizing is possible if the following criteria are met. First, OLD_WIDTH and NEW_WIDTH must be both numeric or both string widths. Second, if NEW_WIDTH is a short string width and less than OLD_WIDTH, resizing is allowed only if bytes NEW_WIDTH through OLD_WIDTH in VALUE contain only spaces. These rules are part of those used by 'mv_is_resizable' and 'val_labs_can_set_width'. -- Function: void value_resize (union value *VALUE, int OLD_WIDTH, int NEW_WIDTH) Resizes VALUE from OLD_WIDTH to NEW_WIDTH, which must be allowed by the rules stated above. VALUE must have been initialized with the specified OLD_WIDTH before calling this function. After resizing, VALUE has width NEW_WIDTH. If NEW_WIDTH is greater than OLD_WIDTH, VALUE will be padded on the right with spaces to the new width. If NEW_WIDTH is less than OLD_WIDTH, the rightmost bytes of VALUE are truncated. -- Function: bool value_equal (const union value *A, const union value *B, int WIDTH) Compares of A and B, which must both have width WIDTH. Returns true if their contents are the same, false if they differ. -- Function: int value_compare_3way (const union value *A, const union value *B, int WIDTH) Compares of A and B, which must both have width WIDTH. Returns -1 if A is less than B, 0 if they are equal, or 1 if A is greater than B. Numeric values are compared numerically, with 'SYSMIS' comparing less than any real number. String values are compared lexicographically byte-by-byte. -- Function: size_t value_hash (const union value *VALUE, int WIDTH, unsigned int BASIS) Computes and returns a hash of VALUE, which must have the specified WIDTH. The value in BASIS is folded into the hash. 2.2 Input and Output Formats ============================ Input and output formats specify how to convert data fields to and from data values (*note (pspp)Input and Output Formats::). PSPP uses 'struct fmt_spec' to represent input and output formats. Function prototypes and other declarations related to formats are in the '' header. -- Structure: struct fmt_spec An input or output format, with the following members: 'enum fmt_type type' The format type (see below). 'int w' Field width, in bytes. The width of numeric fields is always between 1 and 40 bytes, and the width of string fields is always between 1 and 65534 bytes. However, many individual types of formats place stricter limits on field width (see *note fmt_max_input_width::, *note fmt_max_output_width::). 'int d' Number of decimal places, in character positions. For format types that do not allow decimal places to be specified, this value must be 0. Format types that do allow decimal places have type-specific and often width-specific restrictions on 'd' (see *note fmt_max_input_decimals::, *note fmt_max_output_decimals::). -- Enumeration: enum fmt_type An enumerated type representing an input or output format type. Each PSPP input and output format has a corresponding enumeration constant prefixed by 'FMT': 'FMT_F', 'FMT_COMMA', 'FMT_DOT', and so on. The following sections describe functions for manipulating formats and the data in fields represented by formats. 2.2.1 Constructing and Verifying Formats ---------------------------------------- These functions construct 'struct fmt_spec's and verify that they are valid. -- Function: struct fmt_spec fmt_for_input (enum fmt_type TYPE, int W, int D) -- Function: struct fmt_spec fmt_for_output (enum fmt_type TYPE, int W, int D) Constructs a 'struct fmt_spec' with the given TYPE, W, and D, asserts that the result is a valid input (or output) format, and returns it. -- Function: struct fmt_spec fmt_for_output_from_input (const struct fmt_spec *INPUT) Given INPUT, which must be a valid input format, returns the equivalent output format. *Note (pspp)Input and Output Formats::, for the rules for converting input formats into output formats. -- Function: struct fmt_spec fmt_default_for_width (int WIDTH) Returns the default output format for a variable of the given WIDTH. For a numeric variable, this is F8.2 format; for a string variable, it is the A format of the given WIDTH. The following functions check whether a 'struct fmt_spec' is valid for various uses and return true if so, false otherwise. When any of them returns false, it also outputs an explanatory error message using 'msg'. To suppress error output, enclose a call to one of these functions by a 'msg_disable'/'msg_enable' pair. -- Function: bool fmt_check (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT, bool FOR_INPUT) -- Function: bool fmt_check_input (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) -- Function: bool fmt_check_output (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) Checks whether FORMAT is a valid input format (for 'fmt_check_input', or 'fmt_check' if FOR_INPUT) or output format (for 'fmt_check_output', or 'fmt_check' if not FOR_INPUT). -- Function: bool fmt_check_type_compat (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT, enum val_type TYPE) Checks whether FORMAT matches the value type TYPE, that is, if TYPE is 'VAL_NUMERIC' and FORMAT is a numeric format or TYPE is 'VAL_STRING' and FORMAT is a string format. -- Function: bool fmt_check_width_compat (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT, int WIDTH) Checks whether FORMAT may be used as an output format for a value of the given WIDTH. 'fmt_var_width', described in the following section, can be also be used to determine the value width needed by a format. 2.2.2 Format Utility Functions ------------------------------ These functions work with 'struct fmt_spec's. -- Function: int fmt_var_width (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) Returns the width for values associated with FORMAT. If FORMAT is a numeric format, the width is 0; if FORMAT is an A format, then the width 'FORMAT->w'; otherwise, FORMAT is an AHEX format and its width is 'FORMAT->w / 2'. -- Function: char *fmt_to_string (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT, char S[FMT_STRING_LEN_MAX + 1]) Converts FORMAT to a human-readable format specifier in S and returns S. FORMAT need not be a valid input or output format specifier, e.g. it is allowed to have an excess width or decimal places. In particular, if FORMAT has decimals, they are included in the output string, even if FORMAT's type does not allow decimals, to allow accurately presenting incorrect formats to the user. -- Function: bool fmt_equal (const struct fmt_spec *A, const struct fmt_spec *B) Compares A and B memberwise and returns true if they are identical, false otherwise. FORMAT need not be a valid input or output format specifier. -- Function: void fmt_resize (struct fmt_spec *FMT, int WIDTH) Sets the width of FMT to a valid format for a 'union value' of size WIDTH. 2.2.3 Obtaining Properties of Format Types ------------------------------------------ These functions work with 'enum fmt_type's instead of the higher-level 'struct fmt_spec's. Their primary purpose is to report properties of each possible format type, which in turn allows clients to abstract away many of the details of the very heterogeneous requirements of each format type. The first group of functions works with format type names. -- Function: const char *fmt_name (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the name for the given TYPE, e.g. '"COMMA"' for 'FMT_COMMA'. -- Function: bool fmt_from_name (const char *NAME, enum fmt_type *TYPE) Tries to find the 'enum fmt_type' associated with NAME. If successful, sets '*TYPE' to the type and returns true; otherwise, returns false without modifying '*TYPE'. The functions below query basic limits on width and decimal places for each kind of format. -- Function: bool fmt_takes_decimals (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns true if a format of the given TYPE is allowed to have a nonzero number of decimal places (the 'd' member of 'struct fmt_spec'), false if not. -- Function: int fmt_min_input_width (enum fmt_type TYPE) -- Function: int fmt_max_input_width (enum fmt_type TYPE) -- Function: int fmt_min_output_width (enum fmt_type TYPE) -- Function: int fmt_max_output_width (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the minimum or maximum width (the 'w' member of 'struct fmt_spec') allowed for an input or output format of the specified TYPE. -- Function: int fmt_max_input_decimals (enum fmt_type TYPE, int WIDTH) -- Function: int fmt_max_output_decimals (enum fmt_type TYPE, int WIDTH) Returns the maximum number of decimal places allowed for an input or output format, respectively, of the given TYPE and WIDTH. Returns 0 if the specified TYPE does not allow any decimal places or if WIDTH is too narrow to allow decimal places. -- Function: int fmt_step_width (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the "width step" for a 'struct fmt_spec' of the given TYPE. A 'struct fmt_spec''s width must be a multiple of its type's width step. Most format types have a width step of 1, so that their formats' widths may be any integer within the valid range, but hexadecimal numeric formats and AHEX string formats have a width step of 2. These functions allow clients to broadly determine how each kind of input or output format behaves. -- Function: bool fmt_is_string (enum fmt_type TYPE) -- Function: bool fmt_is_numeric (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns true if TYPE is a format for numeric or string values, respectively, false otherwise. -- Function: enum fmt_category fmt_get_category (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the category within which TYPE falls. -- Enumeration: enum fmt_category A group of format types. Format type categories correspond to the input and output categories described in the PSPP user documentation (*note (pspp)Input and Output Formats::). Each format is in exactly one category. The categories have bitwise disjoint values to make it easy to test whether a format type is in one of multiple categories, e.g. if (fmt_get_category (type) & (FMT_CAT_DATE | FMT_CAT_TIME)) { /* ...'type' is a date or time format... */ } The format categories are: 'FMT_CAT_BASIC' Basic numeric formats. 'FMT_CAT_CUSTOM' Custom currency formats. 'FMT_CAT_LEGACY' Legacy numeric formats. 'FMT_CAT_BINARY' Binary formats. 'FMT_CAT_HEXADECIMAL' Hexadecimal formats. 'FMT_CAT_DATE' Date formats. 'FMT_CAT_TIME' Time formats. 'FMT_CAT_DATE_COMPONENT' Date component formats. 'FMT_CAT_STRING' String formats. The PSPP input and output routines use the following pair of functions to convert 'enum fmt_type's to and from the separate set of codes used in system and portable files: -- Function: int fmt_to_io (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the format code used in system and portable files that corresponds to TYPE. -- Function: bool fmt_from_io (int IO, enum fmt_type *TYPE) Converts IO, a format code used in system and portable files, into a 'enum fmt_type' in '*TYPE'. Returns true if successful, false if IO is not valid. These functions reflect the relationship between input and output formats. -- Function: enum fmt_type fmt_input_to_output (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the output format type that is used by default by DATA LIST and other input procedures when TYPE is specified as an input format. The conversion from input format to output format is more complicated than simply changing the format. *Note fmt_for_output_from_input::, for a function that performs the entire conversion. -- Function: bool fmt_usable_for_input (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns true if TYPE may be used as an input format type, false otherwise. The custom currency formats, in particular, may be used for output but not for input. All format types are valid for output. The final group of format type property functions obtain human-readable templates that illustrate the formats graphically. -- Function: const char *fmt_date_template (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns a formatting template for TYPE, which must be a date or time format type. These formats are used by 'data_in' and 'data_out' to guide parsing and formatting date and time data. -- Function: char *fmt_dollar_template (const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) Returns a string of the form '$#,###.##' according to FORMAT, which must be of type 'FMT_DOLLAR'. The caller must free the string with 'free'. 2.2.4 Numeric Formatting Styles ------------------------------- Each of the basic numeric formats (F, E, COMMA, DOT, DOLLAR, PCT) and custom currency formats (CCA, CCB, CCC, CCD, CCE) has an associated numeric formatting style, represented by 'struct fmt_number_style'. Input and output conversion of formats that have numeric styles is determined mainly by the style, although the formatting rules have special cases that are not represented within the style. -- Structure: struct fmt_number_style A structure type with the following members: 'struct substring neg_prefix' 'struct substring prefix' 'struct substring suffix' 'struct substring neg_suffix' A set of strings used a prefix to negative numbers, a prefix to every number, a suffix to every number, and a suffix to negative numbers, respectively. Each of these strings is no more than 'FMT_STYLE_AFFIX_MAX' bytes (currently 16) bytes in length. These strings must be freed with 'ss_dealloc' when no longer needed. 'decimal' The character used as a decimal point. It must be either '.' or ','. 'grouping' The character used for grouping digits to the left of the decimal point. It may be '.' or ',', in which case it must not be equal to 'decimal', or it may be set to 0 to disable grouping. The following functions are provided for working with numeric formatting styles. -- Function: void fmt_number_style_init (struct fmt_number_style *STYLE) Initialises a 'struct fmt_number_style' with all of the prefixes and suffixes set to the empty string, '.' as the decimal point character, and grouping disables. -- Function: void fmt_number_style_destroy (struct fmt_number_style *STYLE) Destroys STYLE, freeing its storage. -- Function: struct fmt_number_style *fmt_create (void) A function which creates an array of all the styles used by pspp, and calls fmt_number_style_init on each of them. -- Function: void fmt_done (struct fmt_number_style *STYLES) A wrapper function which takes an array of 'struct fmt_number_style', calls fmt_number_style_destroy on each of them, and then frees the array. -- Function: int fmt_affix_width (const struct fmt_number_style *STYLE) Returns the total length of STYLE's 'prefix' and 'suffix'. -- Function: int fmt_neg_affix_width (const struct fmt_number_style *STYLE) Returns the total length of STYLE's 'neg_prefix' and 'neg_suffix'. PSPP maintains a global set of number styles for each of the basic numeric formats and custom currency formats. The following functions work with these global styles: -- Function: const struct fmt_number_style * fmt_get_style (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the numeric style for the given format TYPE. -- Function: const char * fmt_name (enum fmt_type TYPE) Returns the name of the given format TYPE. 2.2.5 Formatted Data Input and Output ------------------------------------- These functions provide the ability to convert data fields into 'union value's and vice versa. -- Function: bool data_in (struct substring INPUT, const char *ENCODING, enum fmt_type TYPE, int IMPLIED_DECIMALS, int FIRST_COLUMN, const struct dictionary *DICT, union value *OUTPUT, int WIDTH) Parses INPUT as a field containing data in the given format TYPE. The resulting value is stored in OUTPUT, which the caller must have initialized with the given WIDTH. For consistency, WIDTH must be 0 if TYPE is a numeric format type and greater than 0 if TYPE is a string format type. ENCODING should be set to indicate the character encoding of INPUT. DICT must be a pointer to the dictionary with which OUTPUT is associated. If INPUT is the empty string (with length 0), OUTPUT is set to the value set on SET BLANKS (*note (pspp)SET BLANKS::) for a numeric value, or to all spaces for a string value. This applies regardless of the usual parsing requirements for TYPE. If IMPLIED_DECIMALS is greater than zero, then the numeric result is shifted right by IMPLIED_DECIMALS decimal places if INPUT does not contain a decimal point character or an exponent. Only certain numeric format types support implied decimal places; for string formats and other numeric formats, IMPLIED_DECIMALS has no effect. DATA LIST FIXED is the primary user of this feature (*note (pspp)DATA LIST FIXED::). Other callers should generally specify 0 for IMPLIED_DECIMALS, to disable this feature. When INPUT contains invalid input data, 'data_in' outputs a message using 'msg'. If FIRST_COLUMN is nonzero, it is included in any such error message as the 1-based column number of the start of the field. The last column in the field is calculated as FIRST_COLUMN + INPUT - 1. To suppress error output, enclose the call to 'data_in' by calls to 'msg_disable' and 'msg_enable'. This function returns true on success, false if a message was output (even if suppressed). Overflow and underflow provoke warnings but are not propagated to the caller as errors. This function is declared in 'data/data-in.h'. -- Function: char * data_out (const union value *INPUT, const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) -- Function: char * data_out_legacy (const union value *INPUT, const char *ENCODING, const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) Converts the data pointed to by INPUT into a string value, which will be encoded in UTF-8, according to output format specifier FORMAT. Format must be a valid output format. The width of INPUT is inferred from FORMAT using an algorithm equivalent to 'fmt_var_width'. When INPUT contains data that cannot be represented in the given FORMAT, 'data_out' may output a message using 'msg', although the current implementation does not consistently do so. To suppress error output, enclose the call to 'data_out' by calls to 'msg_disable' and 'msg_enable'. This function is declared in 'data/data-out.h'. 2.3 User-Missing Values ======================= In addition to the system-missing value for numeric values, each variable has a set of user-missing values (*note (pspp)MISSING VALUES::). A set of user-missing values is represented by 'struct missing_values'. It is rarely necessary to interact directly with a 'struct missing_values' object. Instead, the most common operation, querying whether a particular value is a missing value for a given variable, is most conveniently executed through functions on 'struct variable'. *Note Variable Missing Values::, for details. A 'struct missing_values' is essentially a set of 'union value's that have a common value width (*note Values::). For a set of missing values associated with a variable (the common case), the set's width is the same as the variable's width. Function prototypes and other declarations related to missing values are declared in 'data/missing-values.h'. -- Structure: struct missing_values Opaque type that represents a set of missing values. The contents of a set of missing values is subject to some restrictions. Regardless of width, a set of missing values is allowed to be empty. A set of numeric missing values may contain up to three discrete numeric values, or a range of numeric values (which includes both ends of the range), or a range plus one discrete numeric value. A set of string missing values may contain up to three discrete string values (with the same width as the set), but ranges are not supported. In addition, values in string missing values wider than 'MV_MAX_STRING' bytes may contain non-space characters only in their first 'MV_MAX_STRING' bytes; all the bytes after the first 'MV_MAX_STRING' must be spaces. *Note mv_is_acceptable::, for a function that tests a value against these constraints. -- Macro: int MV_MAX_STRING Number of bytes in a string missing value that are not required to be spaces. The current value is 8, a value which is fixed by the system file format. In PSPP we could easily eliminate this restriction, but doing so would also require us to extend the system file format in an incompatible way, which we consider a bad tradeoff. The most often useful functions for missing values are those for testing whether a given value is missing, described in the following section. Several other functions for creating, inspecting, and modifying 'struct missing_values' objects are described afterward, but these functions are much more rarely useful. 2.3.1 Testing for Missing Values -------------------------------- The most often useful functions for missing values are those for testing whether a given value is missing, described here. However, using one of the corresponding missing value testing functions for variables can be even easier (*note Variable Missing Values::). -- Function: bool mv_is_value_missing (const struct missing_values *MV, const union value *VALUE, enum mv_class CLASS) -- Function: bool mv_is_num_missing (const struct missing_values *MV, double VALUE, enum mv_class CLASS) -- Function: bool mv_is_str_missing (const struct missing_values *MV, const char VALUE[], enum mv_class CLASS) Tests whether VALUE is in one of the categories of missing values given by CLASS. Returns true if so, false otherwise. MV determines the width of VALUE and provides the set of user-missing values to test. The only difference among these functions in the form in which VALUE is provided, so you may use whichever function is most convenient. The CLASS argument determines the exact kinds of missing values that the functions test for: -- Enumeration: enum mv_class MV_USER Returns true if VALUE is in the set of user-missing values given by MV. MV_SYSTEM Returns true if VALUE is system-missing. (If MV represents a set of string values, then VALUE is never system-missing.) MV_ANY MV_USER | MV_SYSTEM Returns true if VALUE is user-missing or system-missing. MV_NONE Always returns false, that is, VALUE is never considered missing. 2.3.2 Creation and Destruction ------------------------------ These functions create and destroy 'struct missing_values' objects. -- Function: void mv_init (struct missing_values *MV, int WIDTH) Initializes MV as a set of user-missing values. The set is initially empty. Any values added to it must have the specified WIDTH. -- Function: void mv_destroy (struct missing_values *MV) Destroys MV, which must not be referred to again. -- Function: void mv_copy (struct missing_values *MV, const struct missing_values *OLD) Initializes MV as a copy of the existing set of user-missing values OLD. -- Function: void mv_clear (struct missing_values *MV) Empties the user-missing value set MV, retaining its existing width. 2.3.3 Changing User-Missing Value Set Width ------------------------------------------- A few PSPP language constructs copy sets of user-missing values from one variable to another. When the source and target variables have the same width, this is simple. But when the target variable's width might be different from the source variable's, it takes a little more work. The functions described here can help. In fact, it is usually unnecessary to call these functions directly. Most of the time 'var_set_missing_values', which uses 'mv_resize' internally to resize the new set of missing values to the required width, may be used instead. *Note var_set_missing_values::, for more information. -- Function: bool mv_is_resizable (const struct missing_values *MV, int NEW_WIDTH) Tests whether MV's width may be changed to NEW_WIDTH using 'mv_resize'. Returns true if it is allowed, false otherwise. If MV contains any missing values, then it may be resized only if each missing value may be resized, as determined by 'value_is_resizable' (*note value_is_resizable::). -- Function: void mv_resize (struct missing_values *MV, int WIDTH) Changes MV's width to WIDTH. MV and WIDTH must satisfy the constraints explained above. When a string missing value set's width is increased, each user-missing value is padded on the right with spaces to the new width. 2.3.4 Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets ---------------------------------------- These functions inspect the properties and contents of 'struct missing_values' objects. The first set of functions inspects the discrete values that sets of user-missing values may contain: -- Function: bool mv_is_empty (const struct missing_values *MV) Returns true if MV contains no user-missing values, false if it contains at least one user-missing value (either a discrete value or a numeric range). -- Function: int mv_get_width (const struct missing_values *MV) Returns the width of the user-missing values that MV represents. -- Function: int mv_n_values (const struct missing_values *MV) Returns the number of discrete user-missing values included in MV. The return value will be between 0 and 3. For sets of numeric user-missing values that include a range, the return value will be 0 or 1. -- Function: bool mv_has_value (const struct missing_values *MV) Returns true if MV has at least one discrete user-missing values, that is, if 'mv_n_values' would return nonzero for MV. -- Function: const union value * mv_get_value (const struct missing_values *MV, int INDEX) Returns the discrete user-missing value in MV with the given INDEX. The caller must not modify or free the returned value or refer to it after modifying or freeing MV. The index must be less than the number of discrete user-missing values in MV, as reported by 'mv_n_values'. The second set of functions inspects the single range of values that numeric sets of user-missing values may contain: -- Function: bool mv_has_range (const struct missing_values *MV) Returns true if MV includes a range, false otherwise. -- Function: void mv_get_range (const struct missing_values *MV, double *LOW, double *HIGH) Stores the low endpoint of MV's range in '*LOW' and the high endpoint of the range in '*HIGH'. MV must include a range. 2.3.5 Modifying User-Missing Value Sets --------------------------------------- These functions modify the contents of 'struct missing_values' objects. The next set of functions applies to all sets of user-missing values: -- Function: bool mv_add_value (struct missing_values *MV, const union value *VALUE) -- Function: bool mv_add_str (struct missing_values *MV, const char VALUE[]) -- Function: bool mv_add_num (struct missing_values *MV, double VALUE) Attempts to add the given discrete VALUE to set of user-missing values MV. VALUE must have the same width as MV. Returns true if VALUE was successfully added, false if the set could not accept any more discrete values or if VALUE is not an acceptable user-missing value (see 'mv_is_acceptable' below). These functions are equivalent, except for the form in which VALUE is provided, so you may use whichever function is most convenient. -- Function: void mv_pop_value (struct missing_values *MV, union value *VALUE) Removes a discrete value from MV (which must contain at least one discrete value) and stores it in VALUE. -- Function: bool mv_replace_value (struct missing_values *MV, const union value *VALUE, int INDEX) Attempts to replace the discrete value with the given INDEX in MV (which must contain at least INDEX + 1 discrete values) by VALUE. Returns true if successful, false if VALUE is not an acceptable user-missing value (see 'mv_is_acceptable' below). -- Function: bool mv_is_acceptable (const union value *VALUE, int WIDTH) Returns true if VALUE, which must have the specified WIDTH, may be added to a missing value set of the same WIDTH, false if it cannot. As described above, all numeric values and string values of width 'MV_MAX_STRING' or less may be added, but string value of greater width may be added only if bytes beyond the first 'MV_MAX_STRING' are all spaces. The second set of functions applies only to numeric sets of user-missing values: -- Function: bool mv_add_range (struct missing_values *MV, double LOW, double HIGH) Attempts to add a numeric range covering LOW...HIGH (inclusive on both ends) to MV, which must be a numeric set of user-missing values. Returns true if the range is successful added, false on failure. Fails if MV already contains a range, or if MV contains more than one discrete value, or if LOW > HIGH. -- Function: void mv_pop_range (struct missing_values *MV, double *LOW, double *HIGH) Given MV, which must be a numeric set of user-missing values that contains a range, removes that range from MV and stores its low endpoint in '*LOW' and its high endpoint in '*HIGH'. 2.4 Value Labels ================ Each variable has a set of value labels (*note (pspp)VALUE LABELS::), represented as 'struct val_labs'. A 'struct val_labs' is essentially a map from 'union value's to strings. All of the values in a set of value labels have the same width, which for a set of value labels owned by a variable (the common case) is the same as its variable. Sets of value labels may contain any number of entries. It is rarely necessary to interact directly with a 'struct val_labs' object. Instead, the most common operation, looking up the label for a value of a given variable, can be conveniently executed through functions on 'struct variable'. *Note Variable Value Labels::, for details. Function prototypes and other declarations related to missing values are declared in 'data/value-labels.h'. -- Structure: struct val_labs Opaque type that represents a set of value labels. The most often useful function for value labels is 'val_labs_find', for looking up the label associated with a value. -- Function: char * val_labs_find (const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS, union value VALUE) Looks in VAL_LABS for a label for the given VALUE. Returns the label, if one is found, or a null pointer otherwise. Several other functions for working with value labels are described in the following section, but these are more rarely useful. 2.4.1 Creation and Destruction ------------------------------ These functions create and destroy 'struct val_labs' objects. -- Function: struct val_labs * val_labs_create (int WIDTH) Creates and returns an initially empty set of value labels with the given WIDTH. -- Function: struct val_labs * val_labs_clone (const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS) Creates and returns a set of value labels whose width and contents are the same as those of VAR_LABS. -- Function: void val_labs_clear (struct val_labs *VAR_LABS) Deletes all value labels from VAR_LABS. -- Function: void val_labs_destroy (struct val_labs *VAR_LABS) Destroys VAR_LABS, which must not be referenced again. 2.4.2 Value Labels Properties ----------------------------- These functions inspect and manipulate basic properties of 'struct val_labs' objects. -- Function: size_t val_labs_count (const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS) Returns the number of value labels in VAL_LABS. -- Function: bool val_labs_can_set_width (const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS, int NEW_WIDTH) Tests whether VAL_LABS's width may be changed to NEW_WIDTH using 'val_labs_set_width'. Returns true if it is allowed, false otherwise. A set of value labels may be resized to a given width only if each value in it may be resized to that width, as determined by 'value_is_resizable' (*note value_is_resizable::). -- Function: void val_labs_set_width (struct val_labs *VAL_LABS, int NEW_WIDTH) Changes the width of VAL_LABS's values to NEW_WIDTH, which must be a valid new width as determined by 'val_labs_can_set_width'. 2.4.3 Adding and Removing Labels -------------------------------- These functions add and remove value labels from a 'struct val_labs' object. -- Function: bool val_labs_add (struct val_labs *VAL_LABS, union value VALUE, const char *LABEL) Adds LABEL to in VAR_LABS as a label for VALUE, which must have the same width as the set of value labels. Returns true if successful, false if VALUE already has a label. -- Function: void val_labs_replace (struct val_labs *VAL_LABS, union value VALUE, const char *LABEL) Adds LABEL to in VAR_LABS as a label for VALUE, which must have the same width as the set of value labels. If VALUE already has a label in VAR_LABS, it is replaced. -- Function: bool val_labs_remove (struct val_labs *VAL_LABS, union value VALUE) Removes from VAL_LABS any label for VALUE, which must have the same width as the set of value labels. Returns true if a label was removed, false otherwise. 2.4.4 Iterating through Value Labels ------------------------------------ These functions allow iteration through the set of value labels represented by a 'struct val_labs' object. They may be used in the context of a 'for' loop: struct val_labs val_labs; const struct val_lab *vl; ... for (vl = val_labs_first (val_labs); vl != NULL; vl = val_labs_next (val_labs, vl)) { ...do something with 'vl'... } Value labels should not be added or deleted from a 'struct val_labs' as it is undergoing iteration. -- Function: const struct val_lab * val_labs_first (const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS) Returns the first value label in VAR_LABS, if it contains at least one value label, or a null pointer if it does not contain any value labels. -- Function: const struct val_lab * val_labs_next (const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS, const struct val_labs_iterator **VL) Returns the value label in VAR_LABS following VL, if VL is not the last value label in VAL_LABS, or a null pointer if there are no value labels following VL. -- Function: const struct val_lab ** val_labs_sorted (const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS) Allocates and returns an array of pointers to value labels, which are sorted in increasing order by value. The array has 'val_labs_count (VAL_LABS)' elements. The caller is responsible for freeing the array with 'free' (but must not free any of the 'struct val_lab' elements that the array points to). The iteration functions above work with pointers to 'struct val_lab' which is an opaque data structure that users of 'struct val_labs' must not modify or free directly. The following functions work with objects of this type: -- Function: const union value * val_lab_get_value (const struct val_lab *VL) Returns the value of value label VL. The caller must not modify or free the returned value. (To achieve a similar result, remove the value label with 'val_labs_remove', then add the new value with 'val_labs_add'.) The width of the returned value cannot be determined directly from VL. It may be obtained by calling 'val_labs_get_width' on the 'struct val_labs' that VL is in. -- Function: const char * val_lab_get_label (const struct val_lab *VL) Returns the label in VL as a null-terminated string. The caller must not modify or free the returned string. (Use 'val_labs_replace' to change a value label.) 2.5 Variables ============= A PSPP variable is represented by 'struct variable', an opaque type declared in 'data/variable.h' along with related declarations. *Note (pspp)Variables::, for a description of PSPP variables from a user perspective. PSPP is unusual among computer languages in that, by itself, a PSPP variable does not have a value. Instead, a variable in PSPP takes on a value only in the context of a case, which supplies one value for each variable in a set of variables (*note Cases::). The set of variables in a case, in turn, are ordinarily part of a dictionary (*note Dictionaries::). Every variable has several attributes, most of which correspond directly to one of the variable attributes visible to PSPP users (*note (pspp)Attributes::). The following sections describe variable-related functions and macros. 2.5.1 Variable Name ------------------- A variable name is a string between 1 and 'ID_MAX_LEN' bytes long that satisfies the rules for PSPP identifiers (*note (pspp)Tokens::). Variable names are mixed-case and treated case-insensitively. -- Macro: int ID_MAX_LEN Maximum length of a variable name, in bytes, currently 64. Only one commonly useful function relates to variable names: -- Function: const char * var_get_name (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's variable name as a C string. A few other functions are much more rarely used. Some of these functions are used internally by the dictionary implementation: -- Function: void var_set_name (struct variable *VAR, const char *NEW_NAME) Changes the name of VAR to NEW_NAME, which must be a "plausible" name as defined below. This function cannot be applied to a variable that is part of a dictionary. Use 'dict_rename_var' instead (*note Dictionary Renaming Variables::). -- Function: enum dict_class var_get_dict_class (const struct variable *VAR) Returns the dictionary class of VAR's name (*note Dictionary Class::). 2.5.2 Variable Type and Width ----------------------------- A variable's type and width are the type and width of its values (*note Values::). -- Function: enum val_type var_get_type (const struct variable *VAR) Returns the type of variable VAR. -- Function: int var_get_width (const struct variable *VAR) Returns the width of variable VAR. -- Function: void var_set_width (struct variable *VAR, int WIDTH) Sets the width of variable VAR to WIDTH. The width of a variable should not normally be changed after the variable is created, so this function is rarely used. This function cannot be applied to a variable that is part of a dictionary. -- Function: bool var_is_numeric (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR is a numeric variable, false otherwise. -- Function: bool var_is_alpha (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR is an alphanumeric (string) variable, false otherwise. 2.5.3 Variable Missing Values ----------------------------- A numeric or short string variable may have a set of user-missing values (*note (pspp)MISSING VALUES::), represented as a 'struct missing_values' (*note User-Missing Values::). The most frequent operation on a variable's missing values is to query whether a value is user- or system-missing: -- Function: bool var_is_value_missing (const struct variable *VAR, const union value *VALUE, enum mv_class CLASS) -- Function: bool var_is_num_missing (const struct variable *VAR, double VALUE, enum mv_class CLASS) -- Function: bool var_is_str_missing (const struct variable *VAR, const char VALUE[], enum mv_class CLASS) Tests whether VALUE is a missing value of the given CLASS for variable VAR and returns true if so, false otherwise. 'var_is_num_missing' may only be applied to numeric variables; 'var_is_str_missing' may only be applied to string variables. VALUE must have been initialized with the same width as VAR. 'var_is_TYPE_missing (VAR, VALUE, CLASS)' is equivalent to 'mv_is_TYPE_missing (var_get_missing_values (VAR), VALUE, CLASS)'. In addition, a few functions are provided to work more directly with a variable's 'struct missing_values': -- Function: const struct missing_values * var_get_missing_values (const struct variable *VAR) Returns the 'struct missing_values' associated with VAR. The caller must not modify the returned structure. The return value is always non-null. -- Function: void var_set_missing_values (struct variable *VAR, const struct missing_values *MISS) Changes VAR's missing values to a copy of MISS, or if MISS is a null pointer, clears VAR's missing values. If MISS is non-null, it must have the same width as VAR or be resizable to VAR's width (*note mv_resize::). The caller retains ownership of MISS. -- Function: void var_clear_missing_values (struct variable *VAR) Clears VAR's missing values. Equivalent to 'var_set_missing_values (VAR, NULL)'. -- Function: bool var_has_missing_values (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR has any missing values, false if it has none. Equivalent to 'mv_is_empty (var_get_missing_values (VAR))'. 2.5.4 Variable Value Labels --------------------------- A numeric or short string variable may have a set of value labels (*note (pspp)VALUE LABELS::), represented as a 'struct val_labs' (*note Value Labels::). The most commonly useful functions for value labels return the value label associated with a value: -- Function: const char * var_lookup_value_label (const struct variable *VAR, const union value *VALUE) Looks for a label for VALUE in VAR's set of value labels. VALUE must have the same width as VAR. Returns the label if one exists, otherwise a null pointer. -- Function: void var_append_value_name (const struct variable *VAR, const union value *VALUE, struct string *STR) Looks for a label for VALUE in VAR's set of value labels. VALUE must have the same width as VAR. If a label exists, it will be appended to the string pointed to by STR. Otherwise, it formats VALUE using VAR's print format (*note Input and Output Formats::) and appends the formatted string. The underlying 'struct val_labs' structure may also be accessed directly using the functions described below. -- Function: bool var_has_value_labels (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR has at least one value label, false otherwise. -- Function: const struct val_labs * var_get_value_labels (const struct variable *VAR) Returns the 'struct val_labs' associated with VAR. If VAR has no value labels, then the return value may or may not be a null pointer. The variable retains ownership of the returned 'struct val_labs', which the caller must not attempt to modify. -- Function: void var_set_value_labels (struct variable *VAR, const struct val_labs *VAL_LABS) Replaces VAR's value labels by a copy of VAL_LABS. The caller retains ownership of VAL_LABS. If VAL_LABS is a null pointer, then VAR's value labels, if any, are deleted. -- Function: void var_clear_value_labels (struct variable *VAR) Deletes VAR's value labels. Equivalent to 'var_set_value_labels (VAR, NULL)'. A final group of functions offers shorthands for operations that would otherwise require getting the value labels from a variable, copying them, modifying them, and then setting the modified value labels into the variable (making a second copy): -- Function: bool var_add_value_label (struct variable *VAR, const union value *VALUE, const char *LABEL) Attempts to add a copy of LABEL as a label for VALUE for the given VAR. VALUE must have the same width as VAR. If VALUE already has a label, then the old label is retained. Returns true if a label is added, false if there was an existing label for VALUE. Either way, the caller retains ownership of VALUE and LABEL. -- Function: void var_replace_value_label (struct variable *VAR, const union value *VALUE, const char *LABEL) Attempts to add a copy of LABEL as a label for VALUE for the given VAR. VALUE must have the same width as VAR. If VALUE already has a label, then LABEL replaces the old label. Either way, the caller retains ownership of VALUE and LABEL. 2.5.5 Variable Print and Write Formats -------------------------------------- Each variable has an associated pair of output formats, called its "print format" and "write format". *Note (pspp)Input and Output Formats::, for an introduction to formats. *Note Input and Output Formats::, for a developer's description of format representation. The print format is used to convert a variable's data values to strings for human-readable output. The write format is used similarly for machine-readable output, primarily by the WRITE transformation (*note (pspp)WRITE::). Most often a variable's print and write formats are the same. A newly created variable by default has format F8.2 if it is numeric or an A format with the same width as the variable if it is string. Many creators of variables override these defaults. Both the print format and write format are output formats. Input formats are not part of 'struct variable'. Instead, input programs and transformations keep track of variable input formats themselves. The following functions work with variable print and write formats. -- Function: const struct fmt_spec * var_get_print_format (const struct variable *VAR) -- Function: const struct fmt_spec * var_get_write_format (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's print or write format, respectively. -- Function: void var_set_print_format (struct variable *VAR, const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) -- Function: void var_set_write_format (struct variable *VAR, const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) -- Function: void var_set_both_formats (struct variable *VAR, const struct fmt_spec *FORMAT) Sets VAR's print format, write format, or both formats, respectively, to a copy of FORMAT. 2.5.6 Variable Labels --------------------- A variable label is a string that describes a variable. Variable labels may contain spaces and punctuation not allowed in variable names. *Note (pspp)VARIABLE LABELS::, for a user-level description of variable labels. The most commonly useful functions for variable labels are those to retrieve a variable's label: -- Function: const char * var_to_string (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's variable label, if it has one, otherwise VAR's name. In either case the caller must not attempt to modify or free the returned string. This function is useful for user output. -- Function: const char * var_get_label (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's variable label, if it has one, or a null pointer otherwise. A few other variable label functions are also provided: -- Function: void var_set_label (struct variable *VAR, const char *LABEL) Sets VAR's variable label to a copy of LABEL, or removes any label from VAR if LABEL is a null pointer or contains only spaces. Leading and trailing spaces are removed from the variable label and its remaining content is truncated at 255 bytes. -- Function: void var_clear_label (struct variable *VAR) Removes any variable label from VAR. -- Function: bool var_has_label (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR has a variable label, false otherwise. 2.5.7 GUI Attributes -------------------- These functions and types access and set attributes that are mainly used by graphical user interfaces. Their values are also stored in and retrieved from system files (but not portable files). The first group of functions relate to the measurement level of numeric data. New variables are assigned a nominal level of measurement by default. -- Enumeration: enum measure Measurement level. Available values are: 'MEASURE_NOMINAL' Numeric data values are arbitrary. Arithmetic operations and numerical comparisons of such data are not meaningful. 'MEASURE_ORDINAL' Numeric data values indicate progression along a rank order. Arbitrary arithmetic operations such as addition are not meaningful on such data, but inequality comparisons (less, greater, etc.) have straightforward interpretations. 'MEASURE_SCALE' Ratios, sums, etc. of numeric data values have meaningful interpretations. PSPP does not have a separate category for interval data, which would naturally fall between the ordinal and scale measurement levels. -- Function: bool measure_is_valid (enum measure MEASURE) Returns true if MEASURE is a valid level of measurement, that is, if it is one of the 'enum measure' constants listed above, and false otherwise. -- Function: enum measure var_get_measure (const struct variable *VAR) -- Function: void var_set_measure (struct variable *VAR, enum measure MEASURE) Gets or sets VAR's measurement level. The following set of functions relates to the width of on-screen columns used for displaying variable data in a graphical user interface environment. The unit of measurement is the width of a character. For proportionally spaced fonts, this is based on the average width of a character. -- Function: int var_get_display_width (const struct variable *VAR) -- Function: void var_set_display_width (struct variable *VAR, int DISPLAY_WIDTH) Gets or sets VAR's display width. -- Function: int var_default_display_width (int WIDTH) Returns the default display width for a variable with the given WIDTH. The default width of a numeric variable is 8. The default width of a string variable is WIDTH or 32, whichever is less. The final group of functions work with the justification of data when it is displayed in on-screen columns. New variables are by default right-justified. -- Enumeration: enum alignment Text justification. Possible values are 'ALIGN_LEFT', 'ALIGN_RIGHT', and 'ALIGN_CENTRE'. -- Function: bool alignment_is_valid (enum alignment ALIGNMENT) Returns true if ALIGNMENT is a valid alignment, that is, if it is one of the 'enum alignment' constants listed above, and false otherwise. -- Function: enum alignment var_get_alignment (const struct variable *VAR) -- Function: void var_set_alignment (struct variable *VAR, enum alignment ALIGNMENT) Gets or sets VAR's alignment. 2.5.8 Variable Leave Status --------------------------- Commonly, most or all data in a case come from an input file, read with a command such as DATA LIST or GET, but data can also be generated with transformations such as COMPUTE. In the latter case the question of a datum's "initial value" can arise. For example, the value of a piece of generated data can recursively depend on its own value: COMPUTE X = X + 1. Another situation where the initial value of a variable arises is when its value is not set at all for some cases, e.g. below, 'Y' is set only for the first 10 cases: DO IF #CASENUM <= 10. + COMPUTE Y = 1. END IF. By default, the initial value of a datum in either of these situations is the system-missing value for numeric values and spaces for string values. This means that, above, X would be system-missing and that Y would be 1 for the first 10 cases and system-missing for the remainder. PSPP also supports retaining the value of a variable from one case to another, using the LEAVE command (*note (pspp)LEAVE::). The initial value of such a variable is 0 if it is numeric and spaces if it is a string. If the command 'LEAVE X Y' is appended to the above example, then X would have value 1 in the first case and increase by 1 in every succeeding case, and Y would have value 1 for the first 10 cases and 0 for later cases. The LEAVE command has no effect on data that comes from an input file or whose values do not depend on a variable's initial value. The value of scratch variables (*note (pspp)Scratch Variables::) are always left from one case to another. The following functions work with a variable's leave status. -- Function: bool var_get_leave (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR's value is to be retained from case to case, false if it is reinitialized to system-missing or spaces. -- Function: void var_set_leave (struct variable *VAR, bool LEAVE) If LEAVE is true, marks VAR to be left from case to case; if LEAVE is false, marks VAR to be reinitialized for each case. If VAR is a scratch variable, LEAVE must be true. -- Function: bool var_must_leave (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR must be left from case to case, that is, if VAR is a scratch variable. 2.5.9 Dictionary Class ---------------------- Occasionally it is useful to classify variables into "dictionary classes" based on their names. Dictionary classes are represented by 'enum dict_class'. This type and other declarations for dictionary classes are in the '' header. -- Enumeration: enum dict_class The dictionary classes are: 'DC_ORDINARY' An ordinary variable, one whose name does not begin with '$' or '#'. 'DC_SYSTEM' A system variable, one whose name begins with '$'. *Note (pspp)System Variables::. 'DC_SCRATCH' A scratch variable, one whose name begins with '#'. *Note (pspp)Scratch Variables::. The values for dictionary classes are bitwise disjoint, which allows them to be used in bit-masks. An extra enumeration constant 'DC_ALL', whose value is the bitwise-or of all of the above constants, is provided to aid in this purpose. One example use of dictionary classes arises in connection with PSPP syntax that uses 'A TO B' to name the variables in a dictionary from A to B (*note (pspp)Sets of Variables::). This syntax requires A and B to be in the same dictionary class. It limits the variables that it includes to those in that dictionary class. The following functions relate to dictionary classes. -- Function: enum dict_class dict_class_from_id (const char *NAME) Returns the "dictionary class" for the given variable NAME, by looking at its first letter. -- Function: const char * dict_class_to_name (enum dict_class DICT_CLASS) Returns a name for the given DICT_CLASS as an adjective, e.g. '"scratch"'. This function should probably not be used in new code as it can lead to difficulties for internationalization. 2.5.10 Variable Creation and Destruction ---------------------------------------- Only rarely should PSPP code create or destroy variables directly. Ordinarily, variables are created within a dictionary and destroying by individual deletion from the dictionary or by destroying the entire dictionary at once. The functions here enable the exceptional case, of creation and destruction of variables that are not associated with any dictionary. These functions are used internally in the dictionary implementation. -- Function: struct variable * var_create (const char *NAME, int WIDTH) Creates and returns a new variable with the given NAME and WIDTH. The new variable is not part of any dictionary. Use 'dict_create_var', instead, to create a variable in a dictionary (*note Dictionary Creating Variables::). NAME should be a valid variable name and must be a "plausible" variable name (*note Variable Name::). WIDTH must be between 0 and 'MAX_STRING', inclusive (*note Values::). The new variable has no user-missing values, value labels, or variable label. Numeric variables initially have F8.2 print and write formats, right-justified display alignment, and scale level of measurement. String variables are created with A print and write formats, left-justified display alignment, and nominal level of measurement. The initial display width is determined by 'var_default_display_width' (*note var_default_display_width::). The new variable initially has no short name (*note Variable Short Names::) and no auxiliary data (*note Variable Auxiliary Data::). -- Function: struct variable * var_clone (const struct variable *OLD_VAR) Creates and returns a new variable with the same attributes as OLD_VAR, with a few exceptions. First, the new variable is not part of any dictionary, regardless of whether OLD_VAR was in a dictionary. Use 'dict_clone_var', instead, to add a clone of a variable to a dictionary. Second, the new variable is not given any short name, even if OLD_VAR had a short name. This is because the new variable is likely to be immediately renamed, in which case the short name would be incorrect (*note Variable Short Names::). Finally, OLD_VAR's auxiliary data, if any, is not copied to the new variable (*note Variable Auxiliary Data::). -- Function: void var_destroy (struct variable *VAR) Destroys VAR and frees all associated storage, including its auxiliary data, if any. VAR must not be part of a dictionary. To delete a variable from a dictionary and destroy it, use 'dict_delete_var' (*note Dictionary Deleting Variables::). 2.5.11 Variable Short Names --------------------------- PSPP variable names may be up to 64 ('ID_MAX_LEN') bytes long. The system and portable file formats, however, were designed when variable names were limited to 8 bytes in length. Since then, the system file format has been augmented with an extension record that explains how the 8-byte short names map to full-length names (*note Long Variable Names Record::), but the short names are still present. Thus, the continued presence of the short names is more or less invisible to PSPP users, but every variable in a system file still has a short name that must be unique. PSPP can generate unique short names for variables based on their full names at the time it creates the data file. If all variables' full names are unique in their first 8 bytes, then the short names are simply prefixes of the full names; otherwise, PSPP changes them so that they are unique. By itself this algorithm interoperates well with other software that can read system files, as long as that software understands the extension record that maps short names to long names. When the other software does not understand the extension record, it can produce surprising results. Consider a situation where PSPP reads a system file that contains two variables named RANKINGSCORE, then the user adds a new variable named RANKINGSTATUS, then saves the modified data as a new system file. A program that does not understand long names would then see one of these variables under the name RANKINGS--either one, depending on the algorithm's details--and the other under a different name. The effect could be very confusing: by adding a new and apparently unrelated variable in PSPP, the user effectively renamed the existing variable. To counteract this potential problem, every 'struct variable' may have a short name. A variable created by the system or portable file reader receives the short name from that data file. When a variable with a short name is written to a system or portable file, that variable receives priority over other long names whose names begin with the same 8 bytes but which were not read from a data file under that short name. Variables not created by the system or portable file reader have no short name by default. A variable with a full name of 8 bytes or less in length has absolute priority for that name when the variable is written to a system file, even over a second variable with that assigned short name. PSPP does not enforce uniqueness of short names, although the short names read from any given data file will always be unique. If two variables with the same short name are written to a single data file, neither one receives priority. The following macros and functions relate to short names. -- Macro: SHORT_NAME_LEN Maximum length of a short name, in bytes. Its value is 8. -- Function: const char * var_get_short_name (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's short name, or a null pointer if VAR has not been assigned a short name. -- Function: void var_set_short_name (struct variable *VAR, const char *SHORT_NAME) Sets VAR's short name to SHORT_NAME, or removes VAR's short name if SHORT_NAME is a null pointer. If it is non-null, then SHORT_NAME must be a plausible name for a variable. The name will be truncated to 8 bytes in length and converted to all-uppercase. -- Function: void var_clear_short_name (struct variable *VAR) Removes VAR's short name. 2.5.12 Variable Relationships ----------------------------- Variables have close relationships with dictionaries (*note Dictionaries::) and cases (*note Cases::). A variable is usually a member of some dictionary, and a case is often used to store data for the set of variables in a dictionary. These functions report on these relationships. They may be applied only to variables that are in a dictionary. -- Function: size_t var_get_dict_index (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's index within its dictionary. The first variable in a dictionary has index 0, the next variable index 1, and so on. The dictionary index can be influenced using dictionary functions such as dict_reorder_var (*note dict_reorder_var::). -- Function: size_t var_get_case_index (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's index within a case. The case index is an index into an array of 'union value' large enough to contain all the data in the dictionary. The returned case index can be used to access the value of VAR within a case for its dictionary, as in e.g. 'case_data_idx (case, var_get_case_index (VAR))', but ordinarily it is more convenient to use the data access functions that do variable-to-index translation internally, as in e.g. 'case_data (case, VAR)'. 2.5.13 Variable Auxiliary Data ------------------------------ Each 'struct variable' can have a single pointer to auxiliary data of type 'void *'. These functions manipulate a variable's auxiliary data. Use of auxiliary data is discouraged because of its lack of flexibility. Only one client can make use of auxiliary data on a given variable at any time, even though many clients could usefully associate data with a variable. To prevent multiple clients from attempting to use a variable's single auxiliary data field at the same time, we adopt the convention that use of auxiliary data in the active dataset dictionary is restricted to the currently executing command. In particular, transformations must not attach auxiliary data to a variable in the active dataset in the expectation that it can be used later when the active dataset is read and the transformation is executed. To help enforce this restriction, auxiliary data is deleted from all variables in the active dataset dictionary after the execution of each PSPP command. This convention for safe use of auxiliary data applies only to the active dataset dictionary. Rules for other dictionaries may be established separately. Auxiliary data should be replaced by a more flexible mechanism at some point, but no replacement mechanism has been designed or implemented so far. The following functions work with variable auxiliary data. -- Function: void * var_get_aux (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's auxiliary data, or a null pointer if none has been assigned. -- Function: void * var_attach_aux (const struct variable *VAR, void *AUX, void (*AUX_DTOR) (struct variable *)) Sets VAR's auxiliary data to AUX, which must not be null. VAR must not already have auxiliary data. Before VAR's auxiliary data is cleared by 'var_clear_aux', AUX_DTOR, if non-null, will be called with VAR as its argument. It should free any storage associated with AUX, if necessary. 'var_dtor_free' may be appropriate for use as AUX_DTOR: -- Function: void var_dtor_free (struct variable *VAR) Frees VAR's auxiliary data by calling 'free'. -- Function: void var_clear_aux (struct variable *VAR) Removes auxiliary data, if any, from VAR, first calling the destructor passed to 'var_attach_aux', if one was provided. Use 'dict_clear_aux' to remove auxiliary data from every variable in a dictionary. -- Function: void * var_detach_aux (struct variable *VAR) Removes auxiliary data, if any, from VAR, and returns it. Returns a null pointer if VAR had no auxiliary data. Any destructor passed to 'var_attach_aux' is not called, so the caller is responsible for freeing storage associated with the returned auxiliary data. 2.5.14 Variable Categorical Values ---------------------------------- Some statistical procedures require a list of all the values that a categorical variable takes on. Arranging such a list requires making a pass through the data, so PSPP caches categorical values in 'struct variable'. When variable auxiliary data is revamped to support multiple clients as described in the previous section, categorical values are an obvious candidate. The form in which they are currently supported is inelegant. Categorical values are not robust against changes in the data. That is, there is currently no way to detect that a transformation has changed data values, meaning that categorical values lists for the changed variables must be recomputed. PSPP is in fact in need of a general-purpose caching and cache-invalidation mechanism, but none has yet been designed and built. The following functions work with cached categorical values. -- Function: struct cat_vals * var_get_obs_vals (const struct variable *VAR) Returns VAR's set of categorical values. Yields undefined behavior if VAR does not have any categorical values. -- Function: void var_set_obs_vals (const struct variable *VAR, struct cat_vals *CAT_VALS) Destroys VAR's categorical values, if any, and replaces them by CAT_VALS, ownership of which is transferred to VAR. If CAT_VALS is a null pointer, then VAR's categorical values are cleared. -- Function: bool var_has_obs_vals (const struct variable *VAR) Returns true if VAR has a set of categorical values, false otherwise. 2.6 Dictionaries ================ Each data file in memory or on disk has an associated dictionary, whose primary purpose is to describe the data in the file. *Note (pspp)Variables::, for a PSPP user's view of a dictionary. A data file stored in a PSPP format, either as a system or portable file, has a representation of its dictionary embedded in it. Other kinds of data files are usually not self-describing enough to construct a dictionary unassisted, so the dictionaries for these files must be specified explicitly with PSPP commands such as DATA LIST. The most important content of a dictionary is an array of variables, which must have unique names. A dictionary also conceptually contains a mapping from each of its variables to a location within a case (*note Cases::), although in fact these mappings are stored within individual variables. System variables are not members of any dictionary (*note (pspp)System Variables::). Dictionaries are represented by 'struct dictionary'. Declarations related to dictionaries are in the '' header. The following sections describe functions for use with dictionaries. 2.6.1 Accessing Variables ------------------------- The most common operations on a dictionary simply retrieve a 'struct variable *' of an individual variable based on its name or position. -- Function: struct variable * dict_lookup_var (const struct dictionary *DICT, const char *NAME) -- Function: struct variable * dict_lookup_var_assert (const struct dictionary *DICT, const char *NAME) Looks up and returns the variable with the given NAME within DICT. Name lookup is not case-sensitive. 'dict_lookup_var' returns a null pointer if DICT does not contain a variable named NAME. 'dict_lookup_var_assert' asserts that such a variable exists. -- Function: struct variable * dict_get_var (const struct dictionary *DICT, size_t POSITION) Returns the variable at the given POSITION in DICT. POSITION must be less than the number of variables in DICT (see below). -- Function: size_t dict_get_n_vars (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns the number of variables in DICT. Another pair of functions allows retrieving a number of variables at once. These functions are more rarely useful. -- Function: void dict_get_vars (const struct dictionary *DICT, const struct variable ***VARS, size_t *CNT, enum dict_class EXCLUDE) -- Function: void dict_get_vars_mutable (const struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable ***VARS, size_t *CNT, enum dict_class EXCLUDE) Retrieves all of the variables in DICT, in their original order, except that any variables in the dictionary classes specified EXCLUDE, if any, are excluded (*note Dictionary Class::). Pointers to the variables are stored in an array allocated with 'malloc', and a pointer to the first element of this array is stored in '*VARS'. The caller is responsible for freeing this memory when it is no longer needed. The number of variables retrieved is stored in '*CNT'. The presence or absence of 'DC_SYSTEM' in EXCLUDE has no effect, because dictionaries never include system variables. One additional function is available. This function is most often used in assertions, but it is not restricted to such use. -- Function: bool dict_contains_var (const struct dictionary *DICT, const struct variable *VAR) Tests whether VAR is one of the variables in DICT. Returns true if so, false otherwise. 2.6.2 Creating Variables ------------------------ These functions create a new variable and insert it into a dictionary in a single step. There is no provision for inserting an already created variable into a dictionary. There is no reason that such a function could not be written, but so far there has been no need for one. The names provided to one of these functions should be valid variable names and must be plausible variable names. If a variable with the same name already exists in the dictionary, the non-'assert' variants of these functions return a null pointer, without modifying the dictionary. The 'assert' variants, on the other hand, assert that no duplicate name exists. A variable may be in only one dictionary at any given time. -- Function: struct variable * dict_create_var (struct dictionary *DICT, const char *NAME, int WIDTH) -- Function: struct variable * dict_create_var_assert (struct dictionary *DICT, const char *NAME, int WIDTH) Creates a new variable with the given NAME and WIDTH, as if through a call to 'var_create' with those arguments (*note var_create::), appends the new variable to DICT's array of variables, and returns the new variable. -- Function: struct variable * dict_clone_var (struct dictionary *DICT, const struct variable *OLD_VAR) -- Function: struct variable * dict_clone_var_assert (struct dictionary *DICT, const struct variable *OLD_VAR) Creates a new variable as a clone of VAR, inserts the new variable into DICT, and returns the new variable. Other properties of the new variable are copied from OLD_VAR, except for those not copied by 'var_clone' (*note var_clone::). VAR does not need to be a member of any dictionary. -- Function: struct variable * dict_clone_var_as (struct dictionary *DICT, const struct variable *OLD_VAR, const char *NAME) -- Function: struct variable * dict_clone_var_as_assert (struct dictionary *DICT, const struct variable *OLD_VAR, const char *NAME) These functions are similar to 'dict_clone_var' and 'dict_clone_var_assert', respectively, except that the new variable is named NAME instead of keeping OLD_VAR's name. 2.6.3 Deleting Variables ------------------------ These functions remove variables from a dictionary's array of variables. They also destroy the removed variables and free their associated storage. Deleting a variable to which there might be external pointers is a bad idea. In particular, deleting variables from the active dataset dictionary is a risky proposition, because transformations can retain references to arbitrary variables. Therefore, no variable should be deleted from the active dataset dictionary when any transformations are active, because those transformations might reference the variable to be deleted. The safest time to delete a variable is just after a procedure has been executed, as done by DELETE VARIABLES. Deleting a variable automatically removes references to that variable from elsewhere in the dictionary as a weighting variable, filter variable, SPLIT FILE variable, or member of a vector. No functions are provided for removing a variable from a dictionary without destroying that variable. As with insertion of an existing variable, there is no reason that this could not be implemented, but so far there has been no need. -- Function: void dict_delete_var (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *VAR) Deletes VAR from DICT, of which it must be a member. -- Function: void dict_delete_vars (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *const *VARS, size_t COUNT) Deletes the COUNT variables in array VARS from DICT. All of the variables in VARS must be members of DICT. No variable may be included in VARS more than once. -- Function: void dict_delete_consecutive_vars (struct dictionary *DICT, size_t IDX, size_t COUNT) Deletes the variables in sequential positions IDX...IDX + COUNT (exclusive) from DICT, which must contain at least IDX + COUNT variables. -- Function: void dict_delete_scratch_vars (struct dictionary *DICT) Deletes all scratch variables from DICT. 2.6.4 Changing Variable Order ----------------------------- The variables in a dictionary are stored in an array. These functions change the order of a dictionary's array of variables without changing which variables are in the dictionary. -- Function: void dict_reorder_var (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *VAR, size_t NEW_INDEX) Moves VAR, which must be in DICT, so that it is at position NEW_INDEX in DICT's array of variables. Other variables in DICT, if any, retain their relative positions. NEW_INDEX must be less than the number of variables in DICT. -- Function: void dict_reorder_vars (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *const *NEW_ORDER, size_t COUNT) Moves the COUNT variables in NEW_ORDER to the beginning of DICT's array of variables in the specified order. Other variables in DICT, if any, retain their relative positions. All of the variables in NEW_ORDER must be in DICT. No duplicates are allowed within NEW_ORDER, which means that COUNT must be no greater than the number of variables in DICT. 2.6.5 Renaming Variables ------------------------ These functions change the names of variables within a dictionary. The 'var_set_name' function (*note var_set_name::) cannot be applied directly to a variable that is in a dictionary, because 'struct dictionary' contains an index by name that 'var_set_name' would not update. The following functions take care to update the index as well. They also ensure that variable renaming does not cause a dictionary to contain a duplicate variable name. -- Function: void dict_rename_var (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *VAR, const char *NEW_NAME) Changes the name of VAR, which must be in DICT, to NEW_NAME. A variable named NEW_NAME must not already be in DICT, unless NEW_NAME is the same as VAR's current name. -- Function: bool dict_rename_vars (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable **VARS, char **NEW_NAMES, size_t COUNT, char **ERR_NAME) Renames each of the COUNT variables in VARS to the name in the corresponding position of NEW_NAMES. If the renaming would result in a duplicate variable name, returns false and stores one of the names that would be duplicated into '*ERR_NAME', if ERR_NAME is non-null. Otherwise, the renaming is successful, and true is returned. 2.6.6 Weight Variable --------------------- A data set's cases may optionally be weighted by the value of a numeric variable. *Note (pspp)WEIGHT::, for a user view of weight variables. The weight variable is written to and read from system and portable files. The most commonly useful function related to weighting is a convenience function to retrieve a weighting value from a case. -- Function: double dict_get_case_weight (const struct dictionary *DICT, const struct ccase *CASE, bool *WARN_ON_INVALID) Retrieves and returns the value of the weighting variable specified by DICT from CASE. Returns 1.0 if DICT has no weighting variable. Returns 0.0 if C's weight value is user- or system-missing, zero, or negative. In such a case, if WARN_ON_INVALID is non-null and '*WARN_ON_INVALID' is true, 'dict_get_case_weight' also issues an error message and sets '*WARN_ON_INVALID' to false. To disable error reporting, pass a null pointer or a pointer to false as WARN_ON_INVALID or use a 'msg_disable'/'msg_enable' pair. The dictionary also has a pair of functions for getting and setting the weight variable. -- Function: struct variable * dict_get_weight (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns DICT's current weighting variable, or a null pointer if the dictionary does not have a weighting variable. -- Function: void dict_set_weight (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *VAR) Sets DICT's weighting variable to VAR. If VAR is non-null, it must be a numeric variable in DICT. If VAR is null, then DICT's weighting variable, if any, is cleared. 2.6.7 Filter Variable --------------------- When the active dataset is read by a procedure, cases can be excluded from analysis based on the values of a "filter variable". *Note (pspp)FILTER::, for a user view of filtering. These functions store and retrieve the filter variable. They are rarely useful, because the data analysis framework automatically excludes from analysis the cases that should be filtered. -- Function: struct variable * dict_get_filter (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns DICT's current filter variable, or a null pointer if the dictionary does not have a filter variable. -- Function: void dict_set_filter (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *VAR) Sets DICT's filter variable to VAR. If VAR is non-null, it must be a numeric variable in DICT. If VAR is null, then DICT's filter variable, if any, is cleared. 2.6.8 Case Limit ---------------- The limit on cases analyzed by a procedure, set by the N OF CASES command (*note (pspp)N OF CASES::), is stored as part of the dictionary. The dictionary does not, on the other hand, play any role in enforcing the case limit (a job done by data analysis framework code). A case limit of 0 means that the number of cases is not limited. These functions are rarely useful, because the data analysis framework automatically excludes from analysis any cases beyond the limit. -- Function: casenumber dict_get_case_limit (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns the current case limit for DICT. -- Function: void dict_set_case_limit (struct dictionary *DICT, casenumber LIMIT) Sets DICT's case limit to LIMIT. 2.6.9 Split Variables --------------------- The user may use the SPLIT FILE command (*note (pspp)SPLIT FILE::) to select a set of variables on which to split the active dataset into groups of cases to be analyzed independently in each statistical procedure. The set of split variables is stored as part of the dictionary, although the effect on data analysis is implemented by each individual statistical procedure. Split variables may be numeric or short or long string variables. The most useful functions for split variables are those to retrieve them. Even these functions are rarely useful directly: for the purpose of breaking cases into groups based on the values of the split variables, it is usually easier to use 'casegrouper_create_splits'. -- Function: const struct variable *const * dict_get_split_vars (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns a pointer to an array of pointers to split variables. If and only if there are no split variables, returns a null pointer. The caller must not modify or free the returned array. -- Function: size_t dict_get_n_splits (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns the number of split variables. The following functions are also available for working with split variables. -- Function: void dict_set_split_vars (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *const *VARS, size_t CNT) Sets DICT's split variables to the CNT variables in VARS. If CNT is 0, then DICT will not have any split variables. The caller retains ownership of VARS. -- Function: void dict_unset_split_var (struct dictionary *DICT, struct variable *VAR) Removes VAR, which must be a variable in DICT, from DICT's split of split variables. 2.6.10 File Label ----------------- A dictionary may optionally have an associated string that describes its contents, called its file label. The user may set the file label with the FILE LABEL command (*note (pspp)FILE LABEL::). These functions set and retrieve the file label. -- Function: const char * dict_get_label (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns DICT's file label. If DICT does not have a label, returns a null pointer. -- Function: void dict_set_label (struct dictionary *DICT, const char *LABEL) Sets DICT's label to LABEL. If LABEL is non-null, then its content, truncated to at most 60 bytes, becomes the new file label. If LABEL is null, then DICT's label is removed. The caller retains ownership of LABEL. 2.6.11 Documents ---------------- A dictionary may include an arbitrary number of lines of explanatory text, called the dictionary's documents. For compatibility, document lines have a fixed width, and lines that are not exactly this width are truncated or padded with spaces as necessary to bring them to the correct width. PSPP users can use the DOCUMENT (*note (pspp)DOCUMENT::), ADD DOCUMENT (*note (pspp)ADD DOCUMENT::), and DROP DOCUMENTS (*note (pspp)DROP DOCUMENTS::) commands to manipulate documents. -- Macro: int DOC_LINE_LENGTH The fixed length of a document line, in bytes, defined to 80. The following functions work with whole sets of documents. They accept or return sets of documents formatted as null-terminated strings that are an exact multiple of 'DOC_LINE_LENGTH' bytes in length. -- Function: const char * dict_get_documents (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns the documents in DICT, or a null pointer if DICT has no documents. -- Function: void dict_set_documents (struct dictionary *DICT, const char *NEW_DOCUMENTS) Sets DICT's documents to NEW_DOCUMENTS. If NEW_DOCUMENTS is a null pointer or an empty string, then DICT's documents are cleared. The caller retains ownership of NEW_DOCUMENTS. -- Function: void dict_clear_documents (struct dictionary *DICT) Clears the documents from DICT. The following functions work with individual lines in a dictionary's set of documents. -- Function: void dict_add_document_line (struct dictionary *DICT, const char *CONTENT) Appends CONTENT to the documents in DICT. The text in CONTENT will be truncated or padded with spaces as necessary to make it exactly 'DOC_LINE_LENGTH' bytes long. The caller retains ownership of CONTENT. If CONTENT is over 'DOC_LINE_LENGTH', this function also issues a warning using 'msg'. To suppress the warning, enclose a call to one of this function in a 'msg_disable'/'msg_enable' pair. -- Function: size_t dict_get_document_n_lines (const struct dictionary *DICT) Returns the number of line of documents in DICT. If the dictionary contains no documents, returns 0. -- Function: void dict_get_document_line (const struct dictionary *DICT, size_t IDX, struct string *CONTENT) Replaces the text in CONTENT (which must already have been initialized by the caller) by the document line in DICT numbered IDX, which must be less than the number of lines of documents in DICT. Any trailing white space in the document line is trimmed, so that CONTENT will have a length between 0 and 'DOC_LINE_LENGTH'. 2.7 Coding Conventions ====================== Every '.c' file should have '#include ' as its first non-comment line. No '.h' file should include 'config.h'. This section needs to be finished. 2.8 Cases ========= This section needs to be written. 2.9 Data Sets ============= This section needs to be written. 2.10 Pools ========== This section needs to be written. 3 Parsing Command Syntax ************************ 4 Processing Data ***************** Developer's Guide Proposed outline: * Introduction * Basic concepts ** Data sets ** Variables ** Dictionaries ** Coding conventions ** Pools * Syntax parsing * Data processing ** Reading data *** Casereaders generalities *** Casereaders from data files *** Casereaders from the active dataset *** Other casereaders ** Writing data *** Casewriters generally *** Casewriters to data files *** Modifying the active dataset **** Modifying cases obtained from active dataset casereaders has no real effect **** Transformations; procedures that transform ** Transforming data *** Sorting and merging *** Filtering *** Grouping **** Ordering and interaction of filtering and grouping *** Multiple passes over data *** Counting cases and case weights ** Best practices *** Multiple passes with filters versus single pass with loops *** Sequential versus random access *** Managing memory *** Passing cases around *** Renaming casereaders *** Avoiding excessive buffering *** Propagating errors *** Avoid static/global data *** Don't worry about null filters, groups, etc. *** Be aware of reference counting semantics for cases 5 Presenting Output ******************* 6 Internationalisation ********************** Internationalisation in pspp is complicated. The most annoying aspect is that of character-encoding. This chapter attempts to describe the problems and current ways in which they are addressed. 6.1 The working locales ======================= Pspp has three "working" locales: * The locale of the user interface. * The locale of the output. * The locale of the data. Only the character encoding is relevant. Each of these locales may, at different times take separate (or identical) values. So for example, a French statistician can use pspp to prepare a report in the English language, using a datafile which has been created by a Japanese researcher hence uses a Japanese character set. It's rarely, if ever, necessary to interrogate the system to find out the values of the 3 locales. However it's important to be aware of the source (destination) locale when reading (writing) string data. When transferring data between a source and a destination, the appropriate recoding must be performed. 6.1.1 The user interface locale ------------------------------- This is the locale which is visible to the person using pspp. Error messages and confidence indications are written in this locale. For example "Cannot open file" will be written in the user interface locale. This locale is set from the environment of the user who starts pspp{ire} or from the system locale if not set. 6.1.2 The output locale ----------------------- This locale is the one that should be visible to the person reading a report generated by pspp. Non-data related strings (Eg: "Page number", "Standard Deviation" etc.) will appear in this locale. 6.1.3 The data locale --------------------- This locale is the one associated with the data being analysed with pspp. The only important aspect of this locale is the character encoding. (1) The dictionary pertaining to the data contains a field denoting the encoding. Any string data stored in a 'union value' will be encoded in the dictionary's character set. 6.2 System files ================ '*.sav' files contain a field which is supposed to identify the encoding of the data they contain (*note Machine Integer Info Record::). However, many files produced by early versions of spss set this to "2" (ASCII) regardless of the encoding of the data. Later versions contain an additional record (*note Character Encoding Record::) describing the encoding. When a system file is read, the dictionary's encoding is set using information gleened from the system file. If the encoding cannot be determined or would be unreliable, then it remains unset. 6.3 GUI ======= The psppire graphic user interface is written using the Gtk+ api, for which all strings must be encoded in UTF8. All strings passed to the GTK+/GLib library functions (except for filenames) must be UTF-8 encoded otherwise errors will occur. Thus, for the purposes of the programming psppire, the user interface locale should be assumed to be UTF8, even if setlocale and/or nl_langinfo indicates otherwise. 6.3.1 Filenames --------------- The GLib API has some special functions for dealing with filenames. Strings returned from functions like gtk_file_chooser_dialog_get_name are not, in general, encoded in UTF8, but in "filename" encoding. If that filename is passed to another GLib function which expects a filename, no conversion is necessary. If it's passed to a function for the purposes of displaying it (eg. in a window's title-bar) it must be converted to UTF8 -- there is a special function for this: g_filename_display_name or g_filename_basename. If however, a filename needs to be passed outside of GTK+/GLib (for example to fopen) it must be converted to the local system encoding. 6.4 Existing locale handling functions ====================================== The major aspect of locale handling which the programmer has to consider is that of character encoding. The following function is used to recode strings: -- Function: char * recode_string (const char *TO, const char *FROM, const char *TEXT, int LEN); Converts the string TEXT, which is encoded in FROM to a new string encoded in TO encoding. If LEN is not -1, then it must be the number of bytes in TEXT. It is the caller's responsibility to free the returned string when no longer required. In order to minimise the number of conversions required, and to simplify design, PSPP attempts to store all internal strings in UTF8 encoding. Thus, when reading system and portable files (or any other data source), the following items are immediately converted to UTF8 encoding: * Variable names * Variable labels * Value labels Conversely, when writing system files, these are converted back to the encoding of that system file. String data stored in union values are left in their original encoding. These will be converted by the data_in/data_out functions. 6.5 Quirks ========== For historical reasons, not all locale handling follows posix conventions. This makes it difficult (impossible?) to elegantly handle the issues. For example, it would make sense for the gui's datasheet to display numbers formatted according to the LC_NUMERIC category of the data locale. Instead however there is the 'data_out' function (*note Obtaining Properties of Format Types::) which uses the 'settings_get_decimal_char' function instead of the decimal separator of the locale. Similarly, formatting of monetary values is displayed in a pspp/spss specific fashion instead of using the LC_MONETARY category. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) It might also be desirable for the LC_COLLATE category to be used for the purposes of sorting data. 7 Graphic User Interface ************************ Files pertaining to the GUI are found in the directory 'src/ui/gui/'. The GUI uses the Gtk+ library. Many parts are defined using GtkBuilder files which have a '.ui' prefix. These are XML files and as such can be editied using a text editor, which is often easiest when making small changes. More substantial changes however are best done using Glade. Since however PSPP has many custom defined widgets, Glade must be started with certain environment variables set. The easiest way to run Glade with the correct variables is as follows: make src/ui/gui/glade-wrapper ./src/ui/gui/glade-wrapper If you create new custom widgets for use in PSPP you must do the following to make sure they are available to Glade: * Add a call to its '_get_type' function to 'preregister_widgets' which is found in 'src/ui/gui/widgets.c'. * Add the name of the module to 'src_ui_gui_libwidgets_essential_la_SOURCES' in 'src/ui/gui/automake.mk'. 8 Function Index **************** * Menu: * *: Formatted Data Input and Output. (line 788) * * <1>: Formatted Data Input and Output. (line 790) * * <2>: Internationalisation. (line 2531) * *fmt_create: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 716) * *fmt_dollar_template: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 664) * *fmt_to_string: Format Utility Functions. (line 500) * alignment: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1569) * alignment_is_valid: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1564) * char: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 531) * char <1>: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 659) * data_in: Formatted Data Input and Output. (line 749) * dict_add_document_line: Dictionary Documents. (line 2334) * dict_class_from_id: Dictionary Class. (line 1663) * dict_class_to_name: Dictionary Class. (line 1667) * dict_clear_documents: Dictionary Documents. (line 2328) * dict_clone_var: Dictionary Creating Variables. (line 2038) * dict_clone_var_as: Dictionary Creating Variables. (line 2049) * dict_clone_var_assert: Dictionary Creating Variables. (line 2040) * dict_clone_var_as_assert: Dictionary Creating Variables. (line 2051) * dict_contains_var: Dictionary Variable Access. (line 2004) * dict_create_var: Dictionary Creating Variables. (line 2029) * dict_create_var_assert: Dictionary Creating Variables. (line 2031) * dict_delete_consecutive_vars: Dictionary Deleting Variables. (line 2093) * dict_delete_scratch_vars: Dictionary Deleting Variables. (line 2099) * dict_delete_var: Dictionary Deleting Variables. (line 2083) * dict_delete_vars: Dictionary Deleting Variables. (line 2087) * dict_get_case_limit: Dictionary Case Limit. (line 2227) * dict_get_case_weight: Dictionary Weight Variable. (line 2165) * dict_get_documents: Dictionary Documents. (line 2317) * dict_get_document_line: Dictionary Documents. (line 2350) * dict_get_document_n_lines: Dictionary Documents. (line 2345) * dict_get_filter: Dictionary Filter Variable. (line 2202) * dict_get_label: Dictionary File Label. (line 2284) * dict_get_n_splits: Dictionary Split Variables. (line 2258) * dict_get_n_vars: Dictionary Variable Access. (line 1979) * dict_get_split_vars: Dictionary Split Variables. (line 2252) * dict_get_var: Dictionary Variable Access. (line 1974) * dict_get_vars: Dictionary Variable Access. (line 1985) * dict_get_vars_mutable: Dictionary Variable Access. (line 1987) * dict_get_weight: Dictionary Weight Variable. (line 2180) * dict_lookup_var: Dictionary Variable Access. (line 1963) * dict_lookup_var_assert: Dictionary Variable Access. (line 1965) * dict_rename_var: Dictionary Renaming Variables. (line 2137) * dict_rename_vars: Dictionary Renaming Variables. (line 2143) * dict_reorder_var: Dictionary Reordering Variables. (line 2109) * dict_reorder_vars: Dictionary Reordering Variables. (line 2116) * dict_set_case_limit: Dictionary Case Limit. (line 2231) * dict_set_documents: Dictionary Documents. (line 2322) * dict_set_filter: Dictionary Filter Variable. (line 2207) * dict_set_label: Dictionary File Label. (line 2289) * dict_set_split_vars: Dictionary Split Variables. (line 2264) * dict_set_weight: Dictionary Weight Variable. (line 2185) * dict_unset_split_var: Dictionary Split Variables. (line 2270) * DOC_LINE_LENGTH: Dictionary Documents. (line 2310) * fmt_affix_width: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 725) * fmt_category: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 580) * fmt_check: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 467) * fmt_check_input: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 469) * fmt_check_output: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 470) * fmt_check_type_compat: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 475) * fmt_check_width_compat: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 481) * fmt_default_for_width: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 456) * fmt_done: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 720) * fmt_equal: Format Utility Functions. (line 510) * fmt_for_input: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 442) * fmt_for_output: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 444) * fmt_for_output_from_input: Constructing and Verifying Formats. (line 450) * fmt_from_io: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 633) * fmt_from_name: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 535) * fmt_get_style: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 736) * fmt_is_numeric: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 576) * fmt_is_string: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 575) * fmt_max_input_decimals: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 556) * fmt_max_input_width: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 549) * fmt_max_output_decimals: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 557) * fmt_max_output_width: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 551) * fmt_min_input_width: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 548) * fmt_min_output_width: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 550) * fmt_name: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 740) * fmt_neg_affix_width: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 728) * fmt_number_style_destroy: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 712) * fmt_number_style_init: Numeric Formatting Styles. (line 706) * fmt_resize: Format Utility Functions. (line 516) * fmt_step_width: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 564) * fmt_takes_decimals: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 543) * fmt_to_io: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 629) * fmt_type: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 641) * fmt_usable_for_input: Obtaining Properties of Format Types. (line 649) * fmt_var_width: Format Utility Functions. (line 494) * HIGHEST: Numeric Values. (line 277) * ID_MAX_LEN: Variable Name. (line 1256) * LOWEST: Numeric Values. (line 276) * MAX_STRING: Values. (line 240) * measure: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1535) * measure_is_valid: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1530) * mv_add_num: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1015) * mv_add_range: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1049) * mv_add_str: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1013) * mv_add_value: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1011) * mv_clear: Creating and Destroying User-Missing Values. (line 922) * mv_copy: Creating and Destroying User-Missing Values. (line 917) * mv_destroy: Creating and Destroying User-Missing Values. (line 914) * mv_get_range: Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets. (line 999) * mv_get_value: Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets. (line 985) * mv_get_width: Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets. (line 972) * mv_has_range: Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets. (line 996) * mv_has_value: Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets. (line 981) * mv_init: Creating and Destroying User-Missing Values. (line 909) * mv_is_acceptable: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1037) * mv_is_empty: Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets. (line 967) * mv_is_num_missing: Testing for Missing Values. (line 869) * mv_is_resizable: Changing User-Missing Value Set Width. (line 941) * mv_is_str_missing: Testing for Missing Values. (line 871) * mv_is_value_missing: Testing for Missing Values. (line 867) * MV_MAX_STRING: User-Missing Values. (line 845) * mv_n_values: Inspecting User-Missing Value Sets. (line 975) * mv_pop_range: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1057) * mv_pop_value: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1025) * mv_replace_value: Modifying User-Missing Value Sets. (line 1030) * mv_resize: Changing User-Missing Value Set Width. (line 950) * SHORT_NAME_LEN: Variable Short Names. (line 1783) * SYSMIS: Numeric Values. (line 262) * value_compare_3way: Runtime Typed Values. (line 381) * value_copy: Runtime Typed Values. (line 342) * value_destroy: Runtime Typed Values. (line 327) * value_equal: Runtime Typed Values. (line 376) * value_hash: Runtime Typed Values. (line 391) * value_init: Runtime Typed Values. (line 322) * value_is_resizable: Runtime Typed Values. (line 352) * value_needs_init: Runtime Typed Values. (line 331) * value_resize: Runtime Typed Values. (line 365) * value_set_missing: Runtime Typed Values. (line 347) * val_labs_add: Value Labels Adding and Removing Labels. (line 1147) * val_labs_can_set_width: Value Labels Properties. (line 1126) * val_labs_clear: Value Labels Creation and Destruction. (line 1111) * val_labs_clone: Value Labels Creation and Destruction. (line 1106) * val_labs_count: Value Labels Properties. (line 1123) * val_labs_create: Value Labels Creation and Destruction. (line 1102) * val_labs_destroy: Value Labels Creation and Destruction. (line 1114) * val_labs_find: Value Labels. (line 1089) * val_labs_first: Value Labels Iteration. (line 1186) * val_labs_next: Value Labels Iteration. (line 1192) * val_labs_remove: Value Labels Adding and Removing Labels. (line 1159) * val_labs_replace: Value Labels Adding and Removing Labels. (line 1153) * val_labs_set_width: Value Labels Properties. (line 1136) * val_labs_sorted: Value Labels Iteration. (line 1198) * val_lab_get_label: Value Labels Iteration. (line 1222) * val_lab_get_value: Value Labels Iteration. (line 1211) * val_type_from_width: Values. (line 247) * val_type_is_valid: Values. (line 243) * var_add_value_label: Variable Value Labels. (line 1407) * var_append_value_name: Variable Value Labels. (line 1369) * var_attach_aux: Variable Auxiliary Data. (line 1866) * var_clear_aux: Variable Auxiliary Data. (line 1879) * var_clear_label: Variable Labels. (line 1492) * var_clear_missing_values: Variable Missing Values. (line 1347) * var_clear_short_name: Variable Short Names. (line 1798) * var_clear_value_labels: Variable Value Labels. (line 1398) * var_clone: Variable Creation and Destruction. (line 1707) * var_create: Variable Creation and Destruction. (line 1686) * var_default_display_width: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1551) * var_destroy: Variable Creation and Destruction. (line 1723) * var_detach_aux: Variable Auxiliary Data. (line 1886) * var_get_aux: Variable Auxiliary Data. (line 1862) * var_get_case_index: Variable Relationships. (line 1819) * var_get_dict_class: Variable Name. (line 1276) * var_get_dict_index: Variable Relationships. (line 1812) * var_get_display_width: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1546) * var_get_label: Variable Labels. (line 1479) * var_get_leave: Variable Leave Status. (line 1613) * var_get_missing_values: Variable Missing Values. (line 1334) * var_get_name: Variable Name. (line 1261) * var_get_obs_vals: Variable Categorical Values. (line 1915) * var_get_print_format: Variable Print and Write Formats. (line 1446) * var_get_short_name: Variable Short Names. (line 1786) * var_get_type: Variable Type and Width. (line 1287) * var_get_value_labels: Variable Value Labels. (line 1383) * var_get_width: Variable Type and Width. (line 1290) * var_get_write_format: Variable Print and Write Formats. (line 1448) * var_has_label: Variable Labels. (line 1495) * var_has_missing_values: Variable Missing Values. (line 1351) * var_has_obs_vals: Variable Categorical Values. (line 1926) * var_has_value_labels: Variable Value Labels. (line 1380) * var_is_alpha: Variable Type and Width. (line 1302) * var_is_numeric: Variable Type and Width. (line 1299) * var_is_num_missing: Variable Missing Values. (line 1318) * var_is_str_missing: Variable Missing Values. (line 1320) * var_is_value_missing: Variable Missing Values. (line 1316) * var_lookup_value_label: Variable Value Labels. (line 1363) * var_must_leave: Variable Leave Status. (line 1623) * var_replace_value_label: Variable Value Labels. (line 1415) * var_set_alignment: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1571) * var_set_both_formats: Variable Print and Write Formats. (line 1456) * var_set_display_width: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1547) * var_set_label: Variable Labels. (line 1485) * var_set_leave: Variable Leave Status. (line 1617) * var_set_measure: Variable GUI Attributes. (line 1536) * var_set_missing_values: Variable Missing Values. (line 1340) * var_set_name: Variable Name. (line 1267) * var_set_obs_vals: Variable Categorical Values. (line 1920) * var_set_print_format: Variable Print and Write Formats. (line 1452) * var_set_short_name: Variable Short Names. (line 1791) * var_set_value_labels: Variable Value Labels. (line 1392) * var_set_width: Variable Type and Width. (line 1293) * var_set_write_format: Variable Print and Write Formats. (line 1454) * var_to_string: Variable Labels. (line 1472) * void: Variable Auxiliary Data. (line 1876) 9 Concept Index *************** * Menu: * MAX_STRING: Values. (line 231) * MAX_STRING <1>: String Values. (line 299) * numeric value: Values. (line 231) * string value: Values. (line 231) * value: Values. (line 229) * width: Values. (line 231) Appendix A Portable File Format ******************************* These days, most computers use the same internal data formats for integer and floating-point data, if one ignores little differences like big- versus little-endian byte ordering. However, occasionally it is necessary to exchange data between systems with incompatible data formats. This is what portable files are designed to do. *Please note:* This information is gleaned from examination of ASCII-formatted portable files only, so some of it may be incorrect for portable files formatted in EBCDIC or other character sets. A.1 Portable File Characters ============================ Portable files are arranged as a series of lines of 80 characters each. Each line is terminated by a carriage-return, line-feed sequence ("new-lines"). New-lines are only used to avoid line length limits imposed by some OSes; they are not meaningful. Most lines in portable files are exactly 80 characters long. The only exception is a line that ends in one or more spaces, in which the spaces may optionally be omitted. Thus, a portable file reader must act as though a line shorter than 80 characters is padded to that length with spaces. The file must be terminated with a 'Z' character. In addition, if the final line in the file does not have exactly 80 characters, then it is padded on the right with 'Z' characters. (The file contents may be in any character set; the file contains a description of its own character set, as explained in the next section. Therefore, the 'Z' character is not necessarily an ASCII 'Z'.) For the rest of the description of the portable file format, new-lines and the trailing 'Z's will be ignored, as if they did not exist, because they are not an important part of understanding the file contents. A.2 Portable File Structure =========================== Every portable file consists of the following records, in sequence: * File header. * Version and date info. * Product identification. * Author identification (optional). * Subproduct identification (optional). * Variable count. * Case weight variable (optional). * Variables. Each variable record may optionally be followed by a missing value record and a variable label record. * Value labels (optional). * Documents (optional). * Data. Most records are identified by a single-character tag code. The file header and version info record do not have a tag. Other than these single-character codes, there are three types of fields in a portable file: floating-point, integer, and string. Floating-point fields have the following format: * Zero or more leading spaces. * Optional asterisk ('*'), which indicates a missing value. The asterisk must be followed by a single character, generally a period ('.'), but it appears that other characters may also be possible. This completes the specification of a missing value. * Optional minus sign ('-') to indicate a negative number. * A whole number, consisting of one or more base-30 digits: '0' through '9' plus capital letters 'A' through 'T'. * Optional fraction, consisting of a radix point ('.') followed by one or more base-30 digits. * Optional exponent, consisting of a plus or minus sign ('+' or '-') followed by one or more base-30 digits. * A forward slash ('/'). Integer fields take a form identical to floating-point fields, but they may not contain a fraction. String fields take the form of a integer field having value N, followed by exactly N characters, which are the string content. A.3 Portable File Header ======================== Every portable file begins with a 464-byte header, consisting of a 200-byte collection of vanity splash strings, followed by a 256-byte character set translation table, followed by an 8-byte tag string. The 200-byte segment is divided into five 40-byte sections, each of which represents the string 'CHARSET SPSS PORT FILE' in a different character set encoding, where CHARSET is the name of the character set used in the file, e.g. 'ASCII' or 'EBCDIC'. Each string is padded on the right with spaces in its respective character set. It appears that these strings exist only to inform those who might view the file on a screen, and that they are not parsed by SPSS products. Thus, they can be safely ignored. For those interested, the strings are supposed to be in the following character sets, in the specified order: EBCDIC, 7-bit ASCII, CDC 6-bit ASCII, 6-bit ASCII, Honeywell 6-bit ASCII. The 256-byte segment describes a mapping from the character set used in the portable file to an arbitrary character set having characters at the following positions: 0-60 Control characters. Not important enough to describe in full here. 61-63 Reserved. 64-73 Digits '0' through '9'. 74-99 Capital letters 'A' through 'Z'. 100-125 Lowercase letters 'a' through 'z'. 126 Space. 127-130 Symbols '.<(+' 131 Solid vertical pipe. 132-142 Symbols '&[]!$*);^-/' 143 Broken vertical pipe. 144-150 Symbols ',%_>'?'`:' 151 British pound symbol. 152-155 Symbols '@'="'. 156 Less than or equal symbol. 157 Empty box. 158 Plus or minus. 159 Filled box. 160 Degree symbol. 161 Dagger. 162 Symbol '~'. 163 En dash. 164 Lower left corner box draw. 165 Upper left corner box draw. 166 Greater than or equal symbol. 167-176 Superscript '0' through '9'. 177 Lower right corner box draw. 178 Upper right corner box draw. 179 Not equal symbol. 180 Em dash. 181 Superscript '('. 182 Superscript ')'. 183 Horizontal dagger (?). 184-186 Symbols '{}\'. 187 Cents symbol. 188 Centered dot, or bullet. 189-255 Reserved. Symbols that are not defined in a particular character set are set to the same value as symbol 64; i.e., to '0'. The 8-byte tag string consists of the exact characters 'SPSSPORT' in the portable file's character set, which can be used to verify that the file is indeed a portable file. A.4 Version and Date Info Record ================================ This record does not have a tag code. It has the following structure: * A single character identifying the file format version. The letter A represents version 0, and so on. * An 8-character string field giving the file creation date in the format YYYYMMDD. * A 6-character string field giving the file creation time in the format HHMMSS. A.5 Identification Records ========================== The product identification record has tag code '1'. It consists of a single string field giving the name of the product that wrote the portable file. The author identification record has tag code '2'. It is optional. If present, it consists of a single string field giving the name of the person who caused the portable file to be written. The subproduct identification record has tag code '3'. It is optional. If present, it consists of a single string field giving additional information on the product that wrote the portable file. A.6 Variable Count Record ========================= The variable count record has tag code '4'. It consists of a single integer field giving the number of variables in the file dictionary. A.7 Precision Record ==================== The precision record has tag code '5'. It consists of a single integer field specifying the maximum number of base-30 digits used in data in the file. A.8 Case Weight Variable Record =============================== The case weight variable record is optional. If it is present, it indicates the variable used for weighting cases; if it is absent, cases are unweighted. It has tag code '6'. It consists of a single string field that names the weighting variable. A.9 Variable Records ==================== Each variable record represents a single variable. Variable records have tag code '7'. They have the following structure: * Width (integer). This is 0 for a numeric variable, and a number between 1 and 255 for a string variable. * Name (string). 1-8 characters long. Must be in all capitals. A few portable files that contain duplicate variable names have been spotted in the wild. PSPP handles these by renaming the duplicates with numeric extensions: 'VAR_1', 'VAR_2', and so on. * Print format. This is a set of three integer fields: - Format type (*note Variable Record::). - Format width. 1-40. - Number of decimal places. 1-40. A few portable files with invalid format types or formats that are not of the appropriate width for their variables have been spotted in the wild. PSPP assigns a default F or A format to a variable with an invalid format. * Write format. Same structure as the print format described above. Each variable record can optionally be followed by a missing value record, which has tag code '8'. A missing value record has one field, the missing value itself (a floating-point or string, as appropriate). Up to three of these missing value records can be used. There is also a record for missing value ranges, which has tag code 'B'. It is followed by two fields representing the range, which are floating-point or string as appropriate. If a missing value range is present, it may be followed by a single missing value record. Tag codes '9' and 'A' represent 'LO THRU X' and 'X THRU HI' ranges, respectively. Each is followed by a single field representing X. If one of the ranges is present, it may be followed by a single missing value record. In addition, each variable record can optionally be followed by a variable label record, which has tag code 'C'. A variable label record has one field, the variable label itself (string). A.10 Value Label Records ======================== Value label records have tag code 'D'. They have the following format: * Variable count (integer). * List of variables (strings). The variable count specifies the number in the list. Variables are specified by their names. All variables must be of the same type (numeric or string), but string variables do not necessarily have the same width. * Label count (integer). * List of (value, label) tuples. The label count specifies the number of tuples. Each tuple consists of a value, which is numeric or string as appropriate to the variables, followed by a label (string). A few portable files that specify duplicate value labels, that is, two different labels for a single value of a single variable, have been spotted in the wild. PSPP uses the last value label specified in these cases. A.11 Document Record ==================== One document record may optionally follow the value label record. The document record consists of tag code 'E', following by the number of document lines as an integer, followed by that number of strings, each of which represents one document line. Document lines must be 80 bytes long or shorter. A.12 Portable File Data ======================= The data record has tag code 'F'. There is only one tag for all the data; thus, all the data must follow the dictionary. The data is terminated by the end-of-file marker 'Z', which is not valid as the beginning of a data element. Data elements are output in the same order as the variable records describing them. String variables are output as string fields, and numeric variables are output as floating-point fields. Appendix B System File Format ***************************** A system file encapsulates a set of cases and dictionary information that describes how they may be interpreted. This chapter describes the format of a system file. System files use four data types: 8-bit characters, 32-bit integers, 64-bit integers, and 64-bit floating points, called here 'char', 'int32', 'int64', and 'flt64', respectively. Data is not necessarily aligned on a word or double-word boundary: the long variable name record (*note Long Variable Names Record::) and very long string records (*note Very Long String Record::) have arbitrary byte length and can therefore cause all data coming after them in the file to be misaligned. Integer data in system files may be big-endian or little-endian. A reader may detect the endianness of a system file by examining 'layout_code' in the file header record (*note 'layout_code': layout_code.). Floating-point data in system files may nominally be in IEEE 754, IBM, or VAX formats. A reader may detect the floating-point format in use by examining 'bias' in the file header record (*note 'bias': bias.). PSPP detects big-endian and little-endian integer formats in system files and translates as necessary. PSPP also detects the floating-point format in use, as well as the endianness of IEEE 754 floating-point numbers, and translates as needed. However, only IEEE 754 numbers with the same endianness as integer data in the same file have actually been observed in system files, and it is likely that other formats are obsolete or were never used. System files use a few floating point values for special purposes: SYSMIS The system-missing value is represented by the largest possible negative number in the floating point format ('-DBL_MAX'). HIGHEST HIGHEST is used as the high end of a missing value range with an unbounded maximum. It is represented by the largest possible positive number ('DBL_MAX'). LOWEST LOWEST is used as the low end of a missing value range with an unbounded minimum. It was originally represented by the second-largest negative number (in IEEE 754 format, '0xffeffffffffffffe'). System files written by SPSS 21 and later instead use the largest negative number ('-DBL_MAX'), the same value as SYSMIS. This does not lead to ambiguity because LOWEST appears in system files only in missing value ranges, which never contain SYSMIS. System files may use most character encodings based on an 8-bit unit. UTF-16 and UTF-32, based on wider units, appear to be unacceptable. 'rec_type' in the file header record is sufficient to distinguish between ASCII and EBCDIC based encodings. The best way to determine the specific encoding in use is to consult the character encoding record (*note Character Encoding Record::), if present, and failing that the 'character_code' in the machine integer info record (*note Machine Integer Info Record::). The same encoding should be used for the dictionary and the data in the file, although it is possible to artificially synthesize files that use different encodings (*note Character Encoding Record::). B.1 System File Record Structure ================================ System files are divided into records with the following format: int32 type; char data[]; This header does not identify the length of the 'data' or any information about what it contains, so the system file reader must understand the format of 'data' based on 'type'. However, records with type 7, called "extension records", have a stricter format: int32 type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; char data[size * count]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. This value identifies a particular kind of extension record. 'int32 size;' The size of each piece of data that follows the header, in bytes. Known extension records use 1, 4, or 8, for 'char', 'int32', and 'flt64' format data, respectively. 'int32 count;' The number of pieces of data that follow the header. 'char data[size * count];' Data, whose format and interpretation depend on the subtype. An extension record contains exactly 'size * count' bytes of data, which allows a reader that does not understand an extension record to skip it. Extension records provide only nonessential information, so this allows for files written by newer software to preserve backward compatibility with older or less capable readers. Records in a system file must appear in the following order: * File header record. * Variable records. * All pairs of value labels records and value label variables records, if present. * Document record, if present. * Extension (type 7) records, in ascending numerical order of their subtypes. System files written by SPSS include at most one of each kind of extension record. This is generally true of system files written by other software as well, with known exceptions noted below in the individual sections about each type of record. * Dictionary termination record. * Data record. We advise authors of programs that read system files to tolerate format variations. Various kinds of misformatting and corruption have been observed in system files written by SPSS and other software alike. In particular, because extension records provide nonessential information, it is generally better to ignore an extension record entirely than to refuse to read a system file. The following sections describe the known kinds of records. B.2 File Header Record ====================== A system file begins with the file header, with the following format: char rec_type[4]; char prod_name[60]; int32 layout_code; int32 nominal_case_size; int32 compression; int32 weight_index; int32 ncases; flt64 bias; char creation_date[9]; char creation_time[8]; char file_label[64]; char padding[3]; 'char rec_type[4];' Record type code, either '$FL2' for system files with uncompressed data or data compressed with simple bytecode compression, or '$FL3' for system files with ZLIB compressed data. This is truly a character field that uses the character encoding as other strings. Thus, in a file with an ASCII-based character encoding this field contains '24 46 4c 32' or '24 46 4c 33', and in a file with an EBCDIC-based encoding this field contains '5b c6 d3 f2'. (No EBCDIC-based ZLIB-compressed files have been observed.) 'char prod_name[60];' Product identification string. This always begins with the characters '@(#) SPSS DATA FILE'. PSPP uses the remaining characters to give its version and the operating system name; for example, 'GNU pspp 0.1.4 - sparc-sun-solaris2.5.2'. The string is truncated if it would be longer than 60 characters; otherwise it is padded on the right with spaces. The product name field allow readers to behave differently based on quirks in the way that particular software writes system files. *Note Value Labels Records::, for the detail of the quirk that the PSPP system file reader tolerates in files written by ReadStat, which has 'https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat' in 'prod_name'. 'int32 layout_code;' Normally set to 2, although a few system files have been spotted in the wild with a value of 3 here. PSPP use this value to determine the file's integer endianness (*note System File Format::). 'int32 nominal_case_size;' Number of data elements per case. This is the number of variables, except that long string variables add extra data elements (one for every 8 characters after the first 8). However, string variables do not contribute to this value beyond the first 255 bytes. Further, some software always writes -1 or 0 in this field. In general, it is unsafe for systems reading system files to rely upon this value. 'int32 compression;' Set to 0 if the data in the file is not compressed, 1 if the data is compressed with simple bytecode compression, 2 if the data is ZLIB compressed. This field has value 2 if and only if 'rec_type' is '$FL3'. 'int32 weight_index;' If one of the variables in the data set is used as a weighting variable, set to the dictionary index of that variable, plus 1 (*note Dictionary Index::). Otherwise, set to 0. 'int32 ncases;' Set to the number of cases in the file if it is known, or -1 otherwise. In the general case it is not possible to determine the number of cases that will be output to a system file at the time that the header is written. The way that this is dealt with is by writing the entire system file, including the header, then seeking back to the beginning of the file and writing just the 'ncases' field. For files in which this is not valid, the seek operation fails. In this case, 'ncases' remains -1. 'flt64 bias;' Compression bias, ordinarily set to 100. Only integers between '1 - bias' and '251 - bias' can be compressed. By assuming that its value is 100, PSPP uses 'bias' to determine the file's floating-point format and endianness (*note System File Format::). If the compression bias is not 100, PSPP cannot auto-detect the floating-point format and assumes that it is IEEE 754 format with the same endianness as the system file's integers, which is correct for all known system files. 'char creation_date[9];' Date of creation of the system file, in 'dd mmm yy' format, with the month as standard English abbreviations, using an initial capital letter and following with lowercase. If the date is not available then this field is arbitrarily set to '01 Jan 70'. 'char creation_time[8];' Time of creation of the system file, in 'hh:mm:ss' format and using 24-hour time. If the time is not available then this field is arbitrarily set to '00:00:00'. 'char file_label[64];' File label declared by the user, if any (*note (pspp)FILE LABEL::). Padded on the right with spaces. A product that identifies itself as 'VOXCO INTERVIEWER 4.3' uses CR-only line ends in this field, rather than the more usual LF-only or CR LF line ends. 'char padding[3];' Ignored padding bytes to make the structure a multiple of 32 bits in length. Set to zeros. B.3 Variable Record =================== There must be one variable record for each numeric variable and each string variable with width 8 bytes or less. String variables wider than 8 bytes have one variable record for each 8 bytes, rounding up. The first variable record for a long string specifies the variable's correct dictionary information. Subsequent variable records for a long string are filled with dummy information: a type of -1, no variable label or missing values, print and write formats that are ignored, and an empty string as name. A few system files have been encountered that include a variable label on dummy variable records, so readers should take care to parse dummy variable records in the same way as other variable records. The "dictionary index" of a variable is a 1-based offset in the set of variable records, including dummy variable records for long string variables. The first variable record has a dictionary index of 1, the second has a dictionary index of 2, and so on. The system file format does not directly support string variables wider than 255 bytes. Such very long string variables are represented by a number of narrower string variables. *Note Very Long String Record::, for details. A system file should contain at least one variable and thus at least one variable record, but system files have been observed in the wild without any variables (thus, no data either). int32 rec_type; int32 type; int32 has_var_label; int32 n_missing_values; int32 print; int32 write; char name[8]; /* Present only if 'has_var_label' is 1. */ int32 label_len; char label[]; /* Present only if 'n_missing_values' is nonzero. */ flt64 missing_values[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type code. Always set to 2. 'int32 type;' Variable type code. Set to 0 for a numeric variable. For a short string variable or the first part of a long string variable, this is set to the width of the string. For the second and subsequent parts of a long string variable, set to -1, and the remaining fields in the structure are ignored. 'int32 has_var_label;' If this variable has a variable label, set to 1; otherwise, set to 0. 'int32 n_missing_values;' If the variable has no missing values, set to 0. If the variable has one, two, or three discrete missing values, set to 1, 2, or 3, respectively. If the variable has a range for missing variables, set to -2; if the variable has a range for missing variables plus a single discrete value, set to -3. A long string variable always has the value 0 here. A separate record indicates missing values for long string variables (*note Long String Missing Values Record::). 'int32 print;' Print format for this variable. See below. 'int32 write;' Write format for this variable. See below. 'char name[8];' Variable name. The variable name must begin with a capital letter or the at-sign ('@'). Subsequent characters may also be digits, octothorpes ('#'), dollar signs ('$'), underscores ('_'), or full stops ('.'). The variable name is padded on the right with spaces. The 'name' fields should be unique within a system file. System files written by SPSS that contain very long string variables with similar names sometimes contain duplicate names that are later eliminated by resolving the very long string names (*note Very Long String Record::). PSPP handles duplicates by assigning them new, unique names. 'int32 label_len;' This field is present only if 'has_var_label' is set to 1. It is set to the length, in characters, of the variable label. The documented maximum length varies from 120 to 255 based on SPSS version, but some files have been seen with longer labels. PSPP accepts labels of any length. 'char label[];' This field is present only if 'has_var_label' is set to 1. It has length 'label_len', rounded up to the nearest multiple of 32 bits. The first 'label_len' characters are the variable's variable label. 'flt64 missing_values[];' This field is present only if 'n_missing_values' is nonzero. It has the same number of 8-byte elements as the absolute value of 'n_missing_values'. Each element is interpreted as a number for numeric variables (with HIGHEST and LOWEST indicated as described in the chapter introduction). For string variables of width less than 8 bytes, elements are right-padded with spaces; for string variables wider than 8 bytes, only the first 8 bytes of each missing value are specified, with the remainder implicitly all spaces. For discrete missing values, each element represents one missing value. When a range is present, the first element denotes the minimum value in the range, and the second element denotes the maximum value in the range. When a range plus a value are present, the third element denotes the additional discrete missing value. The 'print' and 'write' members of sysfile_variable are output formats coded into 'int32' types. The least-significant byte of the 'int32' represents the number of decimal places, and the next two bytes in order of increasing significance represent field width and format type, respectively. The most-significant byte is not used and should be set to zero. Format types are defined as follows: Value Meaning --------------------- 0 Not used. 1 'A' 2 'AHEX' 3 'COMMA' 4 'DOLLAR' 5 'F' 6 'IB' 7 'PIBHEX' 8 'P' 9 'PIB' 10 'PK' 11 'RB' 12 'RBHEX' 13 Not used. 14 Not used. 15 'Z' 16 'N' 17 'E' 18 Not used. 19 Not used. 20 'DATE' 21 'TIME' 22 'DATETIME' 23 'ADATE' 24 'JDATE' 25 'DTIME' 26 'WKDAY' 27 'MONTH' 28 'MOYR' 29 'QYR' 30 'WKYR' 31 'PCT' 32 'DOT' 33 'CCA' 34 'CCB' 35 'CCC' 36 'CCD' 37 'CCE' 38 'EDATE' 39 'SDATE' 40 'MTIME' 41 'YMDHMS' A few system files have been observed in the wild with invalid 'write' fields, in particular with value 0. Readers should probably treat invalid 'print' or 'write' fields as some default format. B.4 Value Labels Records ======================== The value label records documented in this section are used for numeric and short string variables only. Long string variables may have value labels, but their value labels are recorded using a different record type (*note Long String Value Labels Record::). ReadStat (*note File Header Record::) writes value labels that label a single value more than once. In more detail, it emits value labels whose values are longer than string variables' widths, that are identical in the actual width of the variable, e.g. labels for values 'ABC123' and 'ABC456' for a string variable with width 3. For files written by this software, PSPP ignores such labels. The value label record has the following format: int32 rec_type; int32 label_count; /* Repeated 'n_label' times. */ char value[8]; char label_len; char label[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 3. 'int32 label_count;' Number of value labels present in this record. The remaining fields are repeated 'count' times. Each repetition specifies one value label. 'char value[8];' A numeric value or a short string value padded as necessary to 8 bytes in length. Its type and width cannot be determined until the following value label variables record (see below) is read. 'char label_len;' The label's length, in bytes. The documented maximum length varies from 60 to 120 based on SPSS version. PSPP supports value labels up to 255 bytes long. 'char label[];' 'label_len' bytes of the actual label, followed by up to 7 bytes of padding to bring 'label' and 'label_len' together to a multiple of 8 bytes in length. The value label record is always immediately followed by a value label variables record with the following format: int32 rec_type; int32 var_count; int32 vars[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 4. 'int32 var_count;' Number of variables that the associated value labels from the value label record are to be applied. 'int32 vars[];' A list of 1-based dictionary indexes of variables to which to apply the value labels (*note Dictionary Index::). There are 'var_count' elements. String variables wider than 8 bytes may not be specified in this list. B.5 Document Record =================== The document record, if present, has the following format: int32 rec_type; int32 n_lines; char lines[][80]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 6. 'int32 n_lines;' Number of lines of documents present. This should be greater than zero, but ReadStats writes system files with zero 'n_lines'. 'char lines[][80];' Document lines. The number of elements is defined by 'n_lines'. Lines shorter than 80 characters are padded on the right with spaces. B.6 Machine Integer Info Record =============================== The integer info record, if present, has the following format: /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Data. */ int32 version_major; int32 version_minor; int32 version_revision; int32 machine_code; int32 floating_point_rep; int32 compression_code; int32 endianness; int32 character_code; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 3. 'int32 size;' Size of each piece of data in the data part, in bytes. Always set to 4. 'int32 count;' Number of pieces of data in the data part. Always set to 8. 'int32 version_major;' PSPP major version number. In version X.Y.Z, this is X. 'int32 version_minor;' PSPP minor version number. In version X.Y.Z, this is Y. 'int32 version_revision;' PSPP version revision number. In version X.Y.Z, this is Z. 'int32 machine_code;' Machine code. PSPP always set this field to value to -1, but other values may appear. 'int32 floating_point_rep;' Floating point representation code. For IEEE 754 systems this is 1. IBM 370 sets this to 2, and DEC VAX E to 3. 'int32 compression_code;' Compression code. Always set to 1, regardless of whether or how the file is compressed. 'int32 endianness;' Machine endianness. 1 indicates big-endian, 2 indicates little-endian. 'int32 character_code;' Character code. The following values have been actually observed in system files: 1 EBCDIC. 2 7-bit ASCII. 1250 The 'windows-1250' code page for Central European and Eastern European languages. 1252 The 'windows-1252' code page for Western European languages. 28591 ISO 8859-1. 65001 UTF-8. The following additional values are known to be defined: 3 8-bit "ASCII". 4 DEC Kanji. Other Windows code page numbers are known to be generally valid. Old versions of SPSS for Unix and Windows always wrote value 2 in this field, regardless of the encoding in use. Newer versions also write the character encoding as a string (see *note Character Encoding Record::). B.7 Machine Floating-Point Info Record ====================================== The floating-point info record, if present, has the following format: /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Data. */ flt64 sysmis; flt64 highest; flt64 lowest; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 4. 'int32 size;' Size of each piece of data in the data part, in bytes. Always set to 8. 'int32 count;' Number of pieces of data in the data part. Always set to 3. 'flt64 sysmis;' 'flt64 highest;' 'flt64 lowest;' The system missing value, the value used for HIGHEST in missing values, and the value used for LOWEST in missing values, respectively. *Note System File Format::, for more information. The SPSSWriter library in PHP, which identifies itself as 'FOM SPSS 1.0.0' in the file header record 'prod_name' field, writes unexpected values to these fields, but it uses the same values consistently throughout the rest of the file. B.8 Multiple Response Sets Records ================================== The system file format has two different types of records that represent multiple response sets (*note (pspp)MRSETS::). The first type of record describes multiple response sets that can be understood by SPSS before version 14. The second type of record, with a closely related format, is used for multiple dichotomy sets that use the CATEGORYLABELS=COUNTEDVALUES feature added in version 14. /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Exactly 'count' bytes of data. */ char mrsets[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Set to 7 for records that describe multiple response sets understood by SPSS before version 14, or to 19 for records that describe dichotomy sets that use the CATEGORYLABELS=COUNTEDVALUES feature added in version 14. 'int32 size;' The size of each element in the 'mrsets' member. Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The total number of bytes in 'mrsets'. 'char mrsets[];' Zero or more line feeds (byte 0x0a), followed by a series of multiple response sets, each of which consists of the following: * The set's name (an identifier that begins with '$'), in mixed upper and lower case. * An equals sign ('='). * 'C' for a multiple category set, 'D' for a multiple dichotomy set with CATEGORYLABELS=VARLABELS, or 'E' for a multiple dichotomy set with CATEGORYLABELS=COUNTEDVALUES. * For a multiple dichotomy set with CATEGORYLABELS=COUNTEDVALUES, a space, followed by a number expressed as decimal digits, followed by a space. If LABELSOURCE=VARLABEL was specified on MRSETS, then the number is 11; otherwise it is 1.(1) * For either kind of multiple dichotomy set, the counted value, as a positive integer count specified as decimal digits, followed by a space, followed by as many string bytes as specified in the count. If the set contains numeric variables, the string consists of the counted integer value expressed as decimal digits. If the set contains string variables, the string contains the counted string value. Either way, the string may be padded on the right with spaces (older versions of SPSS seem to always pad to a width of 8 bytes; newer versions don't). * A space. * The multiple response set's label, using the same format as for the counted value for multiple dichotomy sets. A string of length 0 means that the set does not have a label. A string of length 0 is also written if LABELSOURCE=VARLABEL was specified. * A space. * The short names of the variables in the set, converted to lowercase, each separated from the previous by a single space. Even though a multiple response set must have at least two variables, some system files contain multiple response sets with no variables or one variable. The source and meaning of these multiple response sets is unknown. (Perhaps they arise from creating a multiple response set then deleting all the variables that it contains?) * One line feed (byte 0x0a). Sometimes multiple, even hundreds, of line feeds are present. Example: Given appropriate variable definitions, consider the following MRSETS command: MRSETS /MCGROUP NAME=$a LABEL='my mcgroup' VARIABLES=a b c /MDGROUP NAME=$b VARIABLES=g e f d VALUE=55 /MDGROUP NAME=$c LABEL='mdgroup #2' VARIABLES=h i j VALUE='Yes' /MDGROUP NAME=$d LABEL='third mdgroup' CATEGORYLABELS=COUNTEDVALUES VARIABLES=k l m VALUE=34 /MDGROUP NAME=$e CATEGORYLABELS=COUNTEDVALUES LABELSOURCE=VARLABEL VARIABLES=n o p VALUE='choice'. The above would generate the following multiple response set record of subtype 7: $a=C 10 my mcgroup a b c $b=D2 55 0 g e f d $c=D3 Yes 10 mdgroup #2 h i j It would also generate the following multiple response set record with subtype 19: $d=E 1 2 34 13 third mdgroup k l m $e=E 11 6 choice 0 n o p ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) This part of the format may not be fully understood, because only a single example of each possibility has been examined. B.9 Extra Product Info Record ============================= This optional record appears to contain a text string that describes the program that wrote the file and the source of the data. (This is redundant with the file label and product info found in the file header record.) /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Exactly 'count' bytes of data. */ char info[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 10. 'int32 size;' The size of each element in the 'info' member. Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The total number of bytes in 'info'. 'char info[];' A text string. A product that identifies itself as 'VOXCO INTERVIEWER 4.3' uses CR-only line ends in this field, rather than the more usual LF-only or CR LF line ends. B.10 Variable Display Parameter Record ====================================== The variable display parameter record, if present, has the following format: /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Repeated 'count' times. */ int32 measure; int32 width; /* Not always present. */ int32 alignment; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 11. 'int32 size;' The size of 'int32'. Always set to 4. 'int32 count;' The number of sets of variable display parameters (ordinarily the number of variables in the dictionary), times 2 or 3. The remaining members are repeated 'count' times, in the same order as the variable records. No element corresponds to variable records that continue long string variables. The meanings of these members are as follows: 'int32 measure;' The measurement type of the variable: 1 Nominal Scale 2 Ordinal Scale 3 Continuous Scale SPSS sometimes writes a 'measure' of 0. PSPP interprets this as nominal scale. 'int32 width;' The width of the display column for the variable in characters. This field is present if COUNT is 3 times the number of variables in the dictionary. It is omitted if COUNT is 2 times the number of variables. 'int32 alignment;' The alignment of the variable for display purposes: 0 Left aligned 1 Right aligned 2 Centre aligned B.11 Long Variable Names Record =============================== If present, the long variable names record has the following format: /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Exactly 'count' bytes of data. */ char var_name_pairs[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 13. 'int32 size;' The size of each element in the 'var_name_pairs' member. Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The total number of bytes in 'var_name_pairs'. 'char var_name_pairs[];' A list of KEY-VALUE tuples, where KEY is the name of a variable, and VALUE is its long variable name. The KEY field is at most 8 bytes long and must match the name of a variable which appears in the variable record (*note Variable Record::). The VALUE field is at most 64 bytes long. The KEY and VALUE fields are separated by a '=' byte. Each tuple is separated by a byte whose value is 09. There is no trailing separator following the last tuple. The total length is 'count' bytes. B.12 Very Long String Record ============================ Old versions of SPSS limited string variables to a width of 255 bytes. For backward compatibility with these older versions, the system file format represents a string longer than 255 bytes, called a "very long string", as a collection of strings no longer than 255 bytes each. The strings concatenated to make a very long string are called its "segments"; for consistency, variables other than very long strings are considered to have a single segment. A very long string with a width of W has N = (W + 251) / 252 segments, that is, one segment for every 252 bytes of width, rounding up. It would be logical, then, for each of the segments except the last to have a width of 252 and the last segment to have the remainder, but this is not the case. In fact, each segment except the last has a width of 255 bytes. The last segment has width W - (N - 1) * 252; some versions of SPSS make it slightly wider, but not wide enough to make the last segment require another 8 bytes of data. Data is packed tightly into segments of a very long string, 255 bytes per segment. Because 255 bytes of segment data are allocated for every 252 bytes of the very long string's width (approximately), some unused space is left over at the end of the allocated segments. Data in unused space is ignored. Example: Consider a very long string of width 20,000. Such a very long string has 20,000 / 252 = 80 (rounding up) segments. The first 79 segments have width 255; the last segment has width 20,000 - 79 * 252 = 92 or slightly wider (up to 96 bytes, the next multiple of 8). The very long string's data is actually stored in the 19,890 bytes in the first 78 segments, plus the first 110 bytes of the 79th segment (19,890 + 110 = 20,000). The remaining 145 bytes of the 79th segment and all 92 bytes of the 80th segment are unused. The very long string record explains how to stitch together segments to obtain very long string data. For each of the very long string variables in the dictionary, it specifies the name of its first segment's variable and the very long string variable's actual width. The remaining segments immediately follow the named variable in the system file's dictionary. The very long string record, which is present only if the system file contains very long string variables, has the following format: /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Exactly 'count' bytes of data. */ char string_lengths[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 14. 'int32 size;' The size of each element in the 'string_lengths' member. Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The total number of bytes in 'string_lengths'. 'char string_lengths[];' A list of KEY-VALUE tuples, where KEY is the name of a variable, and VALUE is its length. The KEY field is at most 8 bytes long and must match the name of a variable which appears in the variable record (*note Variable Record::). The VALUE field is exactly 5 bytes long. It is a zero-padded, ASCII-encoded string that is the length of the variable. The KEY and VALUE fields are separated by a '=' byte. Tuples are delimited by a two-byte sequence {00, 09}. After the last tuple, there may be a single byte 00, or {00, 09}. The total length is 'count' bytes. B.13 Character Encoding Record ============================== This record, if present, indicates the character encoding for string data, long variable names, variable labels, value labels and other strings in the file. /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Exactly 'count' bytes of data. */ char encoding[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 20. 'int32 size;' The size of each element in the 'encoding' member. Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The total number of bytes in 'encoding'. 'char encoding[];' The name of the character encoding. Normally this will be an official IANA character set name or alias. See . Character set names are not case-sensitive, but SPSS appears to write them in all-uppercase. This record is not present in files generated by older software. See also the 'character_code' field in the machine integer info record (*note character-code::). When the character encoding record and the machine integer info record are both present, all system files observed in practice indicate the same character encoding, e.g. 1252 as 'character_code' and 'windows-1252' as 'encoding', 65001 and 'UTF-8', etc. If, for testing purposes, a file is crafted with different 'character_code' and 'encoding', it seems that 'character_code' controls the encoding for all strings in the system file before the dictionary termination record, including strings in data (e.g. string missing values), and 'encoding' controls the encoding for strings following the dictionary termination record. B.14 Long String Value Labels Record ==================================== This record, if present, specifies value labels for long string variables. /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Repeated up to exactly 'count' bytes. */ int32 var_name_len; char var_name[]; int32 var_width; int32 n_labels; long_string_label labels[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 21. 'int32 size;' Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The number of bytes following the header until the next header. 'int32 var_name_len;' 'char var_name[];' The number of bytes in the name of the variable that has long string value labels, plus the variable name itself, which consists of exactly 'var_name_len' bytes. The variable name is not padded to any particular boundary, nor is it null-terminated. 'int32 var_width;' The width of the variable, in bytes, which will be between 9 and 32767. 'int32 n_labels;' 'long_string_label labels[];' The long string labels themselves. The 'labels' array contains exactly 'n_labels' elements, each of which has the following substructure: int32 value_len; char value[]; int32 label_len; char label[]; 'int32 value_len;' 'char value[];' The string value being labeled. 'value_len' is the number of bytes in 'value'; it is equal to 'var_width'. The 'value' array is not padded or null-terminated. 'int32 label_len;' 'char label[];' The label for the string value. 'label_len', which must be between 0 and 120, is the number of bytes in 'label'. The 'label' array is not padded or null-terminated. B.15 Long String Missing Values Record ====================================== This record, if present, specifies missing values for long string variables. /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Repeated up to exactly 'count' bytes. */ int32 var_name_len; char var_name[]; char n_missing_values; long_string_missing_value values[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 22. 'int32 size;' Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The number of bytes following the header until the next header. 'int32 var_name_len;' 'char var_name[];' The number of bytes in the name of the long string variable that has missing values, plus the variable name itself, which consists of exactly 'var_name_len' bytes. The variable name is not padded to any particular boundary, nor is it null-terminated. 'char n_missing_values;' The number of missing values, either 1, 2, or 3. (This is, unusually, a single byte instead of a 32-bit number.) 'long_string_missing_value values[];' The missing values themselves. This array contains exactly 'n_missing_values' elements, each of which has the following substructure: int32 value_len; char value[]; 'int32 value_len;' The length of the missing value string, in bytes. This value should be 8, because long string variables are at least 8 bytes wide (by definition), only the first 8 bytes of a long string variable's missing values are allowed to be non-spaces, and any spaces within the first 8 bytes are included in the missing value here. 'char value[];' The missing value string, exactly 'value_len' bytes, without any padding or null terminator. B.16 Data File and Variable Attributes Records ============================================== The data file and variable attributes records represent custom attributes for the system file or for individual variables in the system file, as defined on the DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE (*note (pspp)DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE::) and VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE commands (*note (pspp)VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE::), respectively. /* Header. */ int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; /* Exactly 'count' bytes of data. */ char attributes[]; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 17 for a data file attribute record or to 18 for a variable attributes record. 'int32 size;' The size of each element in the 'attributes' member. Always set to 1. 'int32 count;' The total number of bytes in 'attributes'. 'char attributes[];' The attributes, in a text-based format. In record subtype 17, this field contains a single attribute set. An attribute set is a sequence of one or more attributes concatenated together. Each attribute consists of a name, which has the same syntax as a variable name, followed by, inside parentheses, a sequence of one or more values. Each value consists of a string enclosed in single quotes (''') followed by a line feed (byte 0x0a). A value may contain single quote characters, which are not themselves escaped or quoted or required to be present in pairs. There is no apparent way to embed a line feed in a value. There is no distinction between an attribute with a single value and an attribute array with one element. In record subtype 18, this field contains a sequence of one or more variable attribute sets. If more than one variable attribute set is present, each one after the first is delimited from the previous by '/'. Each variable attribute set consists of a long variable name, followed by ':', followed by an attribute set with the same syntax as on record subtype 17. System files written by 'Stata 14.1/-savespss- 1.77 by S.Radyakin' may include multiple records with subtype 18, one per variable that has variable attributes. The total length is 'count' bytes. Example ------- A system file produced with the following VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE commands in effect: VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE VARIABLES=dummy ATTRIBUTE=fred[1]('23') fred[2]('34'). VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE VARIABLES=dummy ATTRIBUTE=bert('123'). will contain a variable attribute record with the following contents: 0000 07 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 22 00 00 00 |............"...| 0010 64 75 6d 6d 79 3a 66 72 65 64 28 27 32 33 27 0a |dummy:fred('23'.| 0020 27 33 34 27 0a 29 62 65 72 74 28 27 31 32 33 27 |'34'.)bert('123'| 0030 0a 29 |.) | B.16.1 Variable Roles --------------------- A variable's role is represented as an attribute named '$@Role'. This attribute has a single element whose values and their meanings are: '0' Input. This, the default, is the most common role. '1' Output. '2' Both. '3' None. '4' Partition. '5' Split. B.17 Extended Number of Cases Record ==================================== The file header record expresses the number of cases in the system file as an int32 (*note File Header Record::). This record allows the number of cases in the system file to be expressed as a 64-bit number. int32 rec_type; int32 subtype; int32 size; int32 count; int64 unknown; int64 ncases64; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 7. 'int32 subtype;' Record subtype. Always set to 16. 'int32 size;' Size of each element. Always set to 8. 'int32 count;' Number of pieces of data in the data part. Alway set to 2. 'int64 unknown;' Meaning unknown. Always set to 1. 'int64 ncases64;' Number of cases in the file as a 64-bit integer. Presumably this could be -1 to indicate that the number of cases is unknown, for the same reason as 'ncases' in the file header record, but this has not been observed in the wild. B.18 Other Informational Records ================================ This chapter documents many specific types of extension records are documented here, but others are known to exist. PSPP ignores unknown extension records when reading system files. The following extension record subtypes have also been observed, with the following believed meanings: 5 A set of grouped variables (according to Aapi Hämäläinen). 6 Date info, probably related to USE (according to Aapi Hämäläinen). 12 A UUID in the format described in RFC 4122. Only two examples observed, both written by SPSS 13, and in each case the UUID contained both upper and lower case. 24 XML that describes how data in the file should be displayed on-screen. B.19 Dictionary Termination Record ================================== The dictionary termination record separates all other records from the data records. int32 rec_type; int32 filler; 'int32 rec_type;' Record type. Always set to 999. 'int32 filler;' Ignored padding. Should be set to 0. B.20 Data Record ================ The data record must follow all other records in the system file. Every system file must have a data record that specifies data for at least one case. The format of the data record varies depending on the value of 'compression' in the file header record: 0: no compression Data is arranged as a series of 8-byte elements. Each element corresponds to the variable declared in the respective variable record (*note Variable Record::). Numeric values are given in 'flt64' format; string values are literal characters string, padded on the right when necessary to fill out 8-byte units. 1: bytecode compression The first 8 bytes of the data record is divided into a series of 1-byte command codes. These codes have meanings as described below: 0 Ignored. If the program writing the system file accumulates compressed data in blocks of fixed length, 0 bytes can be used to pad out extra bytes remaining at the end of a fixed-size block. 1 through 251 A number with value CODE - BIAS, where CODE is the value of the compression code and BIAS is the variable 'bias' from the file header. For example, code 105 with bias 100.0 (the normal value) indicates a numeric variable of value 5. A code of 0 (after subtracting the bias) in a string field encodes null bytes. This is unusual, since a string field normally encodes text data, but it exists in real system files. 252 End of file. This code may or may not appear at the end of the data stream. PSPP always outputs this code but its use is not required. 253 A numeric or string value that is not compressible. The value is stored in the 8 bytes following the current block of command bytes. If this value appears twice in a block of command bytes, then it indicates the second group of 8 bytes following the command bytes, and so on. 254 An 8-byte string value that is all spaces. 255 The system-missing value. The end of the 8-byte group of bytecodes is followed by any 8-byte blocks of non-compressible values indicated by code 253. After that follows another 8-byte group of bytecodes, then those bytecodes' non-compressible values. The pattern repeats to the end of the file or a code with value 252. 2: ZLIB compression The data record consists of the following, in order: * ZLIB data header, 24 bytes long. * One or more variable-length blocks of ZLIB compressed data. * ZLIB data trailer, with a 24-byte fixed header plus an additional 24 bytes for each preceding ZLIB compressed data block. The ZLIB data header has the following format: int64 zheader_ofs; int64 ztrailer_ofs; int64 ztrailer_len; 'int64 zheader_ofs;' The offset, in bytes, of the beginning of this structure within the system file. 'int64 ztrailer_ofs;' The offset, in bytes, of the first byte of the ZLIB data trailer. 'int64 ztrailer_len;' The number of bytes in the ZLIB data trailer. This and the previous field sum to the size of the system file in bytes. The data header is followed by '(ztrailer_len - 24) / 24' ZLIB compressed data blocks. Each ZLIB compressed data block begins with a ZLIB header as specified in RFC 1950, e.g. hex bytes '78 01' (the only header yet observed in practice). Each block decompresses to a fixed number of bytes (in practice only '0x3ff000'-byte blocks have been observed), except that the last block of data may be shorter. The last ZLIB compressed data block gends just before offset 'ztrailer_ofs'. The result of ZLIB decompression is bytecode compressed data as described above for compression format 1. The ZLIB data trailer begins with the following 24-byte fixed header: int64 bias; int64 zero; int32 block_size; int32 n_blocks; 'int64 int_bias;' The compression bias as a negative integer, e.g. if 'bias' in the file header record is 100.0, then 'int_bias' is -100 (this is the only value yet observed in practice). 'int64 zero;' Always observed to be zero. 'int32 block_size;' The number of bytes in each ZLIB compressed data block, except possibly the last, following decompression. Only '0x3ff000' has been observed so far. 'int32 n_blocks;' The number of ZLIB compressed data blocks, always exactly '(ztrailer_len - 24) / 24'. The fixed header is followed by 'n_blocks' 24-byte ZLIB data block descriptors, each of which describes the compressed data block corresponding to its offset. Each block descriptor has the following format: int64 uncompressed_ofs; int64 compressed_ofs; int32 uncompressed_size; int32 compressed_size; 'int64 uncompressed_ofs;' The offset, in bytes, that this block of data would have in a similar system file that uses compression format 1. This is 'zheader_ofs' in the first block descriptor, and in each succeeding block descriptor it is the sum of the previous desciptor's 'uncompressed_ofs' and 'uncompressed_size'. 'int64 compressed_ofs;' The offset, in bytes, of the actual beginning of this compressed data block. This is 'zheader_ofs + 24' in the first block descriptor, and in each succeeding block descriptor it is the sum of the previous descriptor's 'compressed_ofs' and 'compressed_size'. The final block descriptor's 'compressed_ofs' and 'compressed_size' sum to 'ztrailer_ofs'. 'int32 uncompressed_size;' The number of bytes in this data block, after decompression. This is 'block_size' in every data block except the last, which may be smaller. 'int32 compressed_size;' The number of bytes in this data block, as stored compressed in this system file. Appendix C SPSS/PC+ System File Format ************************************** SPSS/PC+, first released in 1984, was a simplified version of SPSS for IBM PC and compatible computers. It used a data file format related to the one described in the previous chapter, but simplified and incompatible. The SPSS/PC+ software became obsolete in the 1990s, so files in this format are rarely encountered today. Nevertheless, for completeness, and because it is not very difficult, it seems worthwhile to support at least reading these files. This chapter documents this format, based on examination of a corpus of about 60 files from a variety of sources. System files use four data types: 8-bit characters, 16-bit unsigned integers, 32-bit unsigned integers, and 64-bit floating points, called here 'char', 'uint16', 'uint32', and 'flt64', respectively. Data is not necessarily aligned on a word or double-word boundary. SPSS/PC+ ran only on IBM PC and compatible computers. Therefore, values in these files are always in little-endian byte order. Floating-point numbers are always in IEEE 754 format. SPSS/PC+ system files represent the system-missing value as -1.66e308, or 'f5 1e 26 02 8a 8c ed ff' expressed as hexadecimal. (This is an unusual choice: it is close to, but not equal to, the largest negative 64-bit IEEE 754, which is about -1.8e308.) Text in SPSS/PC+ system file is encoded in ASCII-based 8-bit MS DOS codepages. The corpus used for investigating the format were all ASCII-only. An SPSS/PC+ system file begins with the following 256-byte directory: uint32 two; uint32 zero; struct { uint32 ofs; uint32 len; } records[15]; char filename[128]; 'uint32 two;' 'uint32 zero;' Always set to 2 and 0, respectively. These fields could be used as a signature for the file format, but the 'product' field in record 0 seems more likely to be unique (*note Record 0 Main Header Record::). 'struct { ... } records[15];' Each of the elements in this array identifies a record in the system file. The 'ofs' is a byte offset, from the beginning of the file, that identifies the start of the record. 'len' specifies the length of the record, in bytes. Many records are optional or not used. If a record is not present, 'ofs' and 'len' for that record are both are zero. 'char filename[128];' In most files in the corpus, this field is entirely filled with spaces. In one file, it contains a file name, followed by a null bytes, followed by spaces to fill the remainder of the field. The meaning is unknown. The following sections describe the contents of each record, identified by the index into the 'records' array. C.1 Record 0: Main Header Record ================================ All files in the corpus have this record at offset 0x100 with length 0xb0 (but readers should find this record, like the others, via the 'records' table in the directory). Its format is: uint16 one0; char product[62]; flt64 sysmis; uint32 zero0; uint32 zero1; uint16 one1; uint16 compressed; uint16 nominal_case_size; uint16 n_cases0; uint16 weight_index; uint16 zero2; uint16 n_cases1; uint16 zero3; char creation_date[8]; char creation_time[8]; char label[64]; 'uint16 one0;' 'uint16 one1;' Always set to 1. 'uint32 zero0;' 'uint32 zero1;' 'uint16 zero2;' 'uint16 zero3;' Always set to 0. It seems likely that one of these variables is set to 1 if weighting is enabled, but none of the files in the corpus is weighted. 'char product[62];' Name of the program that created the file. Only the following unique values have been observed, in each case padded on the right with spaces: DESPSS/PC+ System File Written by Data Entry II PCSPSS SYSTEM FILE. IBM PC DOS, SPSS/PC+ PCSPSS SYSTEM FILE. IBM PC DOS, SPSS/PC+ V3.0 PCSPSS SYSTEM FILE. IBM PC DOS, SPSS for Windows Thus, it is reasonable to use the presence of the string 'SPSS' at offset 0x104 as a simple test for an SPSS/PC+ data file. 'flt64 sysmis;' The system-missing value, as described previously (*note SPSS/PC+ System File Format::). 'uint16 compressed;' Set to 0 if the data in the file is not compressed, 1 if the data is compressed with simple bytecode compression. 'uint16 nominal_case_size;' Number of data elements per case. This is the number of variables, except that long string variables add extra data elements (one for every 8 bytes after the first 8). String variables in SPSS/PC+ system files are limited to 255 bytes. 'uint16 n_cases0;' 'uint16 n_cases1;' The number of cases in the data record. Both values are the same. Some files in the corpus contain data for the number of cases noted here, followed by garbage that somewhat resembles data. 'uint16 weight_index;' 0, if the file is unweighted, otherwise a 1-based index into the data record of the weighting variable, e.g. 4 for the first variable after the 3 system-defined variables. 'char creation_date[8];' The date that the file was created, in 'mm/dd/yy' format. Single-digit days and months are not prefixed by zeros. The string is padded with spaces on right or left or both, e.g. '_2/4/93_', '10/5/87_', and '_1/11/88' (with '_' standing in for a space) are all actual examples from the corpus. 'char creation_time[8];' The time that the file was created, in 'HH:MM:SS' format. Single-digit hours are padded on a left with a space. Minutes and seconds are always written as two digits. 'char file_label[64];' File label declared by the user, if any (*note (pspp)FILE LABEL::). Padded on the right with spaces. C.2 Record 1: Variables Record ============================== The variables record most commonly starts at offset 0x1b0, but it can be placed elsewhere. The record contains instances of the following 32-byte structure: uint32 value_label_start; uint32 value_label_end; uint32 var_label_ofs; uint32 format; char name[8]; union { flt64 f; char s[8]; } missing; The number of instances is the 'nominal_case_size' specified in the main header record. There is one instance for each numeric variable and each string variable with width 8 bytes or less. String variables wider than 8 bytes have one instance for each 8 bytes, rounding up. The first instance for a long string specifies the variable's correct dictionary information. Subsequent instances for a long string are generally filled with all-zero bytes, although the 'missing' field contains the numeric system-missing value, and some writers also fill in 'var_label_ofs', 'format', and 'name', sometimes filling the latter with the numeric system-missing value rather than a text string. Regardless of the values used, readers should ignore the contents of these additional instances for long strings. 'uint32 value_label_start;' 'uint32 value_label_end;' For a variable with value labels, these specify offsets into the label record of the start and end of this variable's value labels, respectively. *Note Record 2 Labels Record::, for more information. For a variable without any value labels, these are both zero. A long string variable may not have value labels. 'uint32 var_label_ofs;' For a variable with a variable label, this specifies an offset into the label record. *Note Record 2 Labels Record::, for more information. For a variable without a variable label, this is zero. 'uint32 format;' The variable's output format, in the same format used in system files. *Note System File Output Formats::, for details. SPSS/PC+ system files only use format types 5 (F, for numeric variables) and 1 (A, for string variables). 'char name[8];' The variable's name, padded on the right with spaces. 'union { ... } missing;' A user-missing value. For numeric variables, 'missing.f' is the variable's user-missing value. For string variables, 'missing.s' is a string missing value. A variable without a user-missing value is indicated with 'missing.f' set to the system-missing value, even for string variables (!). A Long string variable may not have a missing value. In addition to the user-defined variables, every SPSS/PC+ system file contains, as its first three variables, the following system-defined variables, in the following order. The system-defined variables have no variable label, value labels, or missing values. '$CASENUM' A numeric variable with format F8.0. Most of the time this is a sequence number, starting with 1 for the first case and counting up for each subsequent case. Some files skip over values, which probably reflects cases that were deleted. '$DATE' A string variable with format A8. Same format (including varying padding) as the 'creation_date' field in the main header record (*note Record 0 Main Header Record::). The actual date can differ from 'creation_date' and from record to record. This may reflect when individual cases were added or updated. '$WEIGHT' A numeric variable with format F8.2. This represents the case's weight; SPSS/PC+ files do not have a user-defined weighting variable. If weighting has not been enabled, every case has value 1.0. C.3 Record 2: Labels Record =========================== The labels record holds value labels and variable labels. Unlike the other records, it is not meant to be read directly and sequentially. Instead, this record must be interpreted one piece at a time, by following pointers from the variables record. The 'value_label_start', 'value_label_end', and 'var_label_ofs' fields in a variable record are all offsets relative to the beginning of the labels record, with an additional 7-byte offset. That is, if the labels record starts at byte offset 'labels_ofs' and a variable has a given 'var_label_ofs', then the variable label begins at byte offset 'labels_ofs' + 'var_label_ofs' + 7 in the file. A variable label, starting at the offset indicated by 'var_label_ofs', consists of a one-byte length followed by the specified number of bytes of the variable label string, like this: uint8 length; char s[length]; A set of value labels, extending from 'value_label_start' to 'value_label_end' (exclusive), consists of a numeric or string value followed by a string in the format just described. String values are padded on the right with spaces to fill the 8-byte field, like this: union { flt64 f; char s[8]; } value; uint8 length; char s[length]; The labels record begins with a pair of uint32 values. The first of these is always 3. The second is between 8 and 16 less than the number of bytes in the record. Neither value is important for interpreting the file. C.4 Record 3: Data Record ========================= The format of the data record varies depending on the value of 'compressed' in the file header record: 0: no compression Data is arranged as a series of 8-byte elements, one per variable instance variable in the variable record (*note Record 1 Variables Record::). Numeric values are given in 'flt64' format; string values are literal characters string, padded on the right with spaces when necessary to fill out 8-byte units. 1: bytecode compression The first 8 bytes of the data record is divided into a series of 1-byte command codes. These codes have meanings as described below: 0 The system-missing value. 1 A numeric or string value that is not compressible. The value is stored in the 8 bytes following the current block of command bytes. If this value appears twice in a block of command bytes, then it indicates the second group of 8 bytes following the command bytes, and so on. 2 through 255 A number with value CODE - 100, where CODE is the value of the compression code. For example, code 105 indicates a numeric variable of value 5. The end of the 8-byte group of bytecodes is followed by any 8-byte blocks of non-compressible values indicated by code 1. After that follows another 8-byte group of bytecodes, then those bytecodes' non-compressible values. The pattern repeats up to the number of cases specified by the main header record have been seen. The corpus does not contain any files with command codes 2 through 95, so it is possible that some of these codes are used for special purposes. Cases of data often, but not always, fill the entire data record. Readers should stop reading after the number of cases specified in the main header record. Otherwise, readers may try to interpret garbage following the data as additional cases. C.5 Records 4 and 5: Data Entry =============================== Records 4 and 5 appear to be related to SPSS/PC+ Data Entry. Appendix D SPSS Viewer File Format ********************************** SPSS Viewer or '.spv' files, here called SPV files, are written by SPSS 16 and later to represent the contents of its output editor. This chapter documents the format, based on examination of a corpus of about 8,000 files from a variety of sources. This description is detailed enough to both read and write SPV files. SPSS 15 and earlier versions instead use '.spo' files, which have a completely different output format based on the Microsoft Compound Document Format. This format is not documented here. An SPV file is a Zip archive that can be read with 'zipinfo' and 'unzip' and similar programs. The final member in the Zip archive is the "manifest", a file named 'META-INF/MANIFEST.MF'. This structure makes SPV files resemble Java "JAR" files (and ODF files), but whereas a JAR manifest contains a sequence of colon-delimited key/value pairs, an SPV manifest contains the string 'allowPivoting=true', without a new-line. PSPP uses this string to identify an SPV file; it is invariant across the corpus.(1)(2) The rest of the members in an SPV file's Zip archive fall into two categories: "structure" and "detail" members. Structure member names take the form with 'outputViewerNUMBER.xml' or 'outputViewerNUMBER_heading.xml', where NUMBER is an 10-digit decimal number. Each of these members represents some kind of output item (a table, a heading, a block of text, etc.) or a group of them. The member whose output goes at the beginning of the document is numbered 0, the next member in the output is numbered 1, and so on. Structure members contain XML. This XML is sometimes self-contained, but it often references detail members in the Zip archive, which are named as follows: 'PREFIX_table.xml' and 'PREFIX_tableData.bin' 'PREFIX_lightTableData.bin' The structure of a table plus its data. Older SPV files pair a 'PREFIX_table.xml' file that describes the table's structure with a binary 'PREFIX_tableData.bin' file that gives its data. Newer SPV files (the majority of those in the corpus) instead include a single 'PREFIX_lightTableData.bin' file that incorporates both into a single binary format. 'PREFIX_warning.xml' and 'PREFIX_warningData.bin' 'PREFIX_lightWarningData.bin' Same format used for tables, with a different name. 'PREFIX_notes.xml' and 'PREFIX_notesData.bin' 'PREFIX_lightNotesData.bin' Same format used for tables, with a different name. 'PREFIX_chartData.bin' and 'PREFIX_chart.xml' The structure of a chart plus its data. Charts do not have a "light" format. 'PREFIX_Imagegeneric.png' 'PREFIX_PastedObjectgeneric.png' 'PREFIX_imageData.bin' A PNG image referenced by an 'object' element (in the first two cases) or an 'image' element (in the final case). *Note SPV Structure object and image Elements::. 'PREFIX_pmml.scf' 'PREFIX_stats.scf' 'PREFIX_model.xml' Not yet investigated. The corpus contains few examples. The 'PREFIX' in the names of the detail members is typically an 11-digit decimal number that increases for each item, tending to skip values. Older SPV files use different naming conventions for detail members. Structure member refer to detail members by name, and so their exact names do not matter to readers as long as they are unique. SPSS tolerates corrupted Zip archives that Zip reader libraries tend to reject. These can be fixed up with 'zip -FF'. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) SPV files always begin with the 7-byte sequence 50 4b 03 04 14 00 08, but this is not a useful magic number because most Zip archives start the same way. (2) SPSS writes 'META-INF/MANIFEST.MF' to every SPV file, but it does not read it or even require it to exist, so using different contents, e.g. as 'allowingPivot=false' has no effect. D.1 Structure Member Format =========================== A structure member lays out the high-level structure for a group of output items such as heading, tables, and charts. Structure members do not include the details of tables and charts but instead refer to them by their member names. Structure members' XML files claim conformance with a collection of XML Schemas. These schemas are distributed, under a nonfree license, with SPSS binaries. Fortunately, the schemas are not necessary to understand the structure members. The schemas can even be deceptive because they document elements and attributes that are not in the corpus and do not document elements and attributes that are commonly found in the corpus. Structure members use a different XML namespace for each schema, but these namespaces are not entirely consistent. In some SPV files, for example, the 'viewer-tree' schema is associated with namespace 'http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer-tree' and in others with 'http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer/viewer-tree' (note the additional 'viewer/'). Under either name, the schema URIs are not resolvable to obtain the schemas themselves. One may ignore all of the above in interpreting a structure member. The actual XML has a simple and straightforward form that does not require a reader to take schemas or namespaces into account. A structure member's root is 'heading' element, which contains 'heading' or 'container' elements (or a mix), forming a tree. In turn, 'container' holds a 'label' and one more child, usually 'text' or 'table'. The following sections document the elements found in structure members in a context-free grammar-like fashion. Consider the following example, which specifies the attributes and content for the 'container' element: container :visibility=(visible | hidden) :page-break-before=(always)? :text-align=(left | center)? :width=dimension => label (table | container_text | graph | model | object | image | tree) Each attribute specification begins with ':' followed by the attribute's name. If the attribute's value has an easily specified form, then '=' and its description follows the name. Finally, if the attribute is optional, the specification ends with '?'. The following value specifications are defined: '(A | B | ...)' One of the listed literal strings. If only one string is listed, it is the only acceptable value. If 'OTHER' is listed, then any string not explicitly listed is also accepted. 'bool' Either 'true' or 'false'. 'dimension' A floating-point number followed by a unit, e.g. '10pt'. Units in the corpus include 'in' (inch), 'pt' (points, 72/inch), 'px' ("device-independent pixels", 96/inch), and 'cm'. If the unit is omitted then points should be assumed. The number and unit may be separated by white space. The corpus also includes localized names for units. A reader must understand these to properly interpret the dimension: inch '인치', 'pol.', 'cala', 'cali' point 'пт' centimeter 'см' 'real' A floating-point number. 'int' An integer. 'color' A color in one of the forms '#RRGGBB' or 'RRGGBB', or the string 'transparent', or one of the standard Web color names. 'ref' 'ref ELEMENT' 'ref(ELEM1 | ELEM2 | ...)' The name from the 'id' attribute in some element. If one or more elements are named, the name must refer to one of those elements, otherwise any element is acceptable. All elements have an optional 'id' attribute. If present, its value must be unique. In practice many elements are assigned 'id' attributes that are never referenced. The content specification for an element supports the following syntax: 'ELEMENT' An element. 'A B' A followed by B. 'A | B | C' One of A or B or C. 'A?' Zero or one instances of A. 'A*' Zero or more instances of A. 'B+' One or more instances of A. '(SUBEXPRESSION)' Grouping for a subexpression. 'EMPTY' No content. 'TEXT' Text and CDATA. Element and attribute names are sometimes suffixed by another name in square brackets to distinguish different uses of the same name. For example, structure XML has two 'text' elements, one inside 'container', the other inside 'pageParagraph'. The former is defined as 'text[container_text]' and referenced as 'container_text', the latter defined as 'text[pageParagraph_text]' and referenced as 'pageParagraph_text'. This language is used in the PSPP source code for parsing structure and detail XML members. Refer to 'src/output/spv/structure-xml.grammar' and 'src/output/spv/detail-xml.grammar' for the full grammars. The following example shows the contents of a typical structure member for a DESCRIPTIVES procedure. A real structure member is not indented. This example also omits most attributes, all XML namespace information, and the CSS from the embedded HTML:
Descriptives]]> 00000000001_lightNotesData.bin
00000000002_lightTableData.bin
D.1.1 The 'heading' Element --------------------------- heading[root_heading] :creator-version? :creator? :creation-date-time? :lockReader=bool? :schemaLocation? => label pageSetup? (container | heading)* heading :creator-version? :commandName? :visibility[heading_visibility]=(collapsed)? :locale? :olang? => label (container | heading)* A 'heading' represents a tree of content that appears in an output viewer window. It contains a 'label' text string that is shown in the outline view ordinarily followed by content containers or further nested (sub)-sections of output. Unlike heading elements in HTML and other common document formats, which precede the content that they head, 'heading' contains the elements that appear below the heading. The root of a structure member is a special 'heading'. The direct children of the root 'heading' elements in all structure members in an SPV file are siblings. That is, the root 'heading' in all of the structure members conceptually represent the same node. The root heading's 'label' is ignored (see *note SPV Structure label Element::). The root heading in the first structure member in the Zip file may contain a 'pageSetup' element. The schema implies that any 'heading' may contain a sequence of any number of 'heading' and 'container' elements. This does not work for the root 'heading' in practice, which must actually contain exactly one 'container' or 'heading' child element. Furthermore, if the root heading's child is a 'heading', then the structure member's name must end in '_heading.xml'; if it is a 'container' child, then it must not. The following attributes have been observed on both document root and nested 'heading' elements. -- Attribute: creator-version The version of the software that created this SPV file. A string of the form 'xxyyzzww' represents software version xx.yy.zz.ww, e.g. '21000001' is version 21.0.0.1. Trailing pairs of zeros are sometimes omitted, so that '21', '210000', and '21000000' are all version 21.0.0.0 (and the corpus contains all three of those forms). The following attributes have been observed on document root 'heading' elements only: -- Attribute: creator The directory in the file system of the software that created this SPV file. -- Attribute: creation-date-time The date and time at which the SPV file was written, in a locale-specific format, e.g. 'Friday, May 16, 2014 6:47:37 PM PDT' or 'lunedì 17 marzo 2014 3.15.48 CET' or even 'Friday, December 5, 2014 5:00:19 o'clock PM EST'. -- Attribute: lockReader Whether a reader should be allowed to edit the output. The possible values are 'true' and 'false'. The value 'false' is by far the most common. -- Attribute: schemaLocation This is actually an XML Namespace attribute. A reader may ignore it. The following attributes have been observed only on nested 'heading' elements: -- Attribute: commandName A locale-invariant identifier for the command that produced the output, e.g. 'Frequencies', 'T-Test', 'Non Par Corr'. -- Attribute: visibility If this attribute is absent, the heading's content is expanded in the outline view. If it is set to 'collapsed', it is collapsed. (This attribute is never present in a root 'heading' because the root node is always expanded when a file is loaded, even though the UI can be used to collapse it interactively.) -- Attribute: locale The locale used for output, in Windows format, which is similar to the format used in Unix with the underscore replaced by a hyphen, e.g. 'en-US', 'en-GB', 'el-GR', 'sr-Cryl-RS'. -- Attribute: olang The output language, e.g. 'en', 'it', 'es', 'de', 'pt-BR'. D.1.2 The 'label' Element ------------------------- label => TEXT Every 'heading' and 'container' holds a 'label' as its first child. The label text is what appears in the outline pane of the GUI's viewer window. PSPP also puts it into the outline of PDF output. The label text doesn't appear in the output itself. The text in 'label' describes what it labels, often by naming the statistical procedure that was executed, e.g. "Frequencies" or "T-Test". Labels are often very generic, especially within a 'container', e.g. "Title" or "Warnings" or "Notes". Label text is localized according to the output language, e.g. in Italian a frequency table procedure is labeled "Frequenze". The user can edit labels to be anything they want. The corpus contains a few examples of empty labels, ones that contain no text, probably as a result of user editing. The root 'heading' in an SPV file has a 'label', like every 'heading'. It normally contains "Output" but its content is disregarded anyway. The user cannot edit it. D.1.3 The 'container' Element ----------------------------- container :visibility=(visible | hidden) :page-break-before=(always)? :text-align=(left | center)? :width=dimension => label (table | container_text | graph | model | object | image | tree) A 'container' serves to contain and label a 'table', 'text', or other kind of item. This element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: visibility Whether the container's content is displayed. "Notes" tables are often hidden; other data is usually visible. -- Attribute: text-align Alignment of text within the container. Observed with nested 'table' and 'text' elements. -- Attribute: width The width of the container, e.g. '1097px'. All of the elements that nest inside 'container' (except the 'label') have the following optional attribute. -- Attribute: commandName As on the 'heading' element. The corpus contains one example of where 'commandName' is present but set to the empty string. D.1.4 The 'text' Element (Inside 'container') --------------------------------------------- text[container_text] :type[text_type]=(title | log | text | page-title) :commandName? :creator-version? => html This 'text' element is nested inside a 'container'. There is a different 'text' element that is nested inside a 'pageParagraph'. This element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: commandName *Note SPV Structure container Element::. For output not specific to a command, this is simply 'log'. -- Attribute: type The semantics of the text. -- Attribute: creator-version As on the 'heading' element. D.1.5 The 'html' Element ------------------------ html :lang=(en) => TEXT The element contains an HTML document as text (or, in practice, as CDATA). In some cases, the document starts with '' and ends with ''; in others the 'html' element is implied. Generally the HTML includes a 'head' element with a CSS stylesheet. The HTML body often begins with '
'. The HTML document uses only the following elements: 'html' Sometimes, the document is enclosed with ''...''. 'br' The HTML body often begins with '
' and may contain it as well. 'b' 'i' 'u' Styling. 'font' The attributes 'face', 'color', and 'size' are observed. The value of 'color' takes one of the forms '#RRGGBB' or 'rgb (R, G, B)'. The value of 'size' is a number between 1 and 7, inclusive. The CSS in the corpus is simple. To understand it, a parser only needs to be able to skip white space, '', and parse style only for 'p' elements. Only the following properties matter: 'color' In the form 'RRGGBB', e.g. '000000', with no leading '#'. 'font-weight' Either 'bold' or 'normal'. 'font-style' Either 'italic' or 'normal'. 'text-decoration' Either 'underline' or 'normal'. 'font-family' A font name, commonly 'Monospaced' or 'SansSerif'. 'font-size' Values claim to be in points, e.g. '14pt', but the values are actually in "device-independent pixels" (px), at 96/inch. This element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: lang This always contains 'en' in the corpus. D.1.6 The 'table' Element ------------------------- table :VDPId? :ViZmlSource? :activePageId=int? :commandName :creator-version? :displayFiltering=bool? :maxNumCells=int? :orphanTolerance=int? :rowBreakNumber=int? :subType :tableId :tableLookId? :type[table_type]=(table | note | warning) => tableProperties? tableStructure tableStructure => path? dataPath csvPath? This element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: commandName *Note SPV Structure container Element::. -- Attribute: type One of 'table', 'note', or 'warning'. -- Attribute: subType The locale-invariant command ID for the particular kind of output that this table represents in the procedure. This can be the same as 'commandName' e.g. 'Frequencies', or different, e.g. 'Case Processing Summary'. Generic subtypes 'Notes' and 'Warnings' are often used. -- Attribute: tableId A number that uniquely identifies the table within the SPV file, typically a large negative number such as '-4147135649387905023'. -- Attribute: creator-version As on the 'heading' element. In the corpus, this is only present for version 21 and up and always includes all 8 digits. *Note SPV Detail Legacy Properties::, for details on the 'tableProperties' element. D.1.7 The 'graph' Element ------------------------- graph :VDPId? :ViZmlSource? :commandName? :creator-version? :dataMapId? :dataMapURI? :editor? :refMapId? :refMapURI? :csvFileIds? :csvFileNames? => dataPath? path csvPath? This element represents a graph. The 'dataPath' and 'path' elements name the Zip members that give the details of the graph. Normally, both elements are present; there is only one counterexample in the corpus. 'csvPath' only appears in one SPV file in the corpus, for two graphs. In these two cases, 'dataPath', 'path', and 'csvPath' all appear. These 'csvPath' name Zip members with names of the form 'NUMBER_csv.bin', where NUMBER is a many-digit number and the same as the 'csvFileIds'. The named Zip members are CSV text files (despite the '.bin' extension). The CSV files are encoded in UTF-8 and begin with a U+FEFF byte-order marker. D.1.8 The 'model' Element ------------------------- model :PMMLContainerId? :PMMLId :StatXMLContainerId :VDPId :auxiliaryViewName :commandName :creator-version :mainViewName => ViZml? dataPath? path | pmmlContainerPath statsContainerPath pmmlContainerPath => TEXT statsContainerPath => TEXT ViZml :viewName? => TEXT This element represents a model. The 'dataPath' and 'path' elements name the Zip members that give the details of the model. Normally, both elements are present; there is only one counterexample in the corpus. The details are unexplored. The 'ViZml' element contains base-64 encoded text, that decodes to a binary format with some embedded text strings, and 'path' names an Zip member that contains XML. Alternatively, 'pmmlContainerPath' and 'statsContainerPath' name Zip members with '.scf' extension. D.1.9 The 'object' and 'image' Elements --------------------------------------- object :commandName? :type[object_type]=(unknown)? :uri => EMPTY image :commandName? :VDPId => dataPath These two elements represent an image in PNG format. They are equivalent and the corpus contains examples of both. The only difference is the syntax: for 'object', the 'uri' attribute names the Zip member that contains a PNG file; for 'image', the text of the inner 'dataPath' element names the Zip member. PSPP writes 'object' in output but there is no strong reason to choose this form. The corpus only contains PNG image files. D.1.10 The 'tree' Element ------------------------- tree :commandName :creator-version :name :type => dataPath path This element represents a tree. The 'dataPath' and 'path' elements name the Zip members that give the details of the tree. The details are unexplored. D.1.11 Path Elements -------------------- dataPath => TEXT path => TEXT csvPath => TEXT These element contain the name of the Zip members that hold details for a container. For tables: * When a "light" format is used, only 'dataPath' is present, and it names a '.bin' member of the Zip file that has 'light' in its name, e.g. '0000000001437_lightTableData.bin' (*note SPV Light Detail Member Format::). * When the legacy format is used, both are present. In this case, 'dataPath' names a Zip member with a legacy binary format that contains relevant data (*note SPV Legacy Detail Member Binary Format::), and 'path' names a Zip member that uses an XML format (*note SPV Legacy Detail Member XML Format::). Graphs normally follow the legacy approach described above. The corpus contains one example of a graph with 'path' but not 'dataPath'. The reason is unexplored. Models use 'path' but not 'dataPath'. *Note SPV Structure graph Element::, for more information. These elements have no attributes. D.1.12 The 'pageSetup' Element ------------------------------ pageSetup :initial-page-number=int? :chart-size=(as-is | full-height | half-height | quarter-height | OTHER)? :margin-left=dimension? :margin-right=dimension? :margin-top=dimension? :margin-bottom=dimension? :paper-height=dimension? :paper-width=dimension? :reference-orientation? :space-after=dimension? => pageHeader pageFooter pageHeader => pageParagraph? pageFooter => pageParagraph? pageParagraph => pageParagraph_text The 'pageSetup' element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: initial-page-number The page number to put on the first page of printed output. Usually '1'. -- Attribute: chart-size One of the listed, self-explanatory chart sizes, 'quarter-height', or a localization (!) of one of these (e.g. 'dimensione attuale', 'Wie vorgegeben'). -- Attribute: margin-left -- Attribute: margin-right -- Attribute: margin-top -- Attribute: margin-bottom Margin sizes, e.g. '0.25in'. -- Attribute: paper-height -- Attribute: paper-width Paper sizes. -- Attribute: reference-orientation Indicates the orientation of the output page. Either '0deg' (portrait) or '90deg' (landscape), -- Attribute: space-after The amount of space between printed objects, typically '12pt'. D.1.13 The 'text' Element (Inside 'pageParagraph') -------------------------------------------------- text[pageParagraph_text] :type=(title | text) => TEXT This 'text' element is nested inside a 'pageParagraph'. There is a different 'text' element that is nested inside a 'container'. The element is either empty, or contains CDATA that holds almost-XHTML text: in the corpus, either an 'html' or 'p' element. It is _almost_-XHTML because the 'html' element designates the default namespace as 'http://xml.spss.com/spss/viewer/viewer-tree' instead of an XHTML namespace, and because the CDATA can contain substitution variables. The following variables are supported: '&[Date]' '&[Time]' The current date or time in the preferred format for the locale. '&[Head1]' '&[Head2]' '&[Head3]' '&[Head4]' First-, second-, third-, or fourth-level heading. '&[PageTitle]' The page title. '&[Filename]' Name of the output file. '&[Page]' The page number. '&[Page]' for the page number and '&[PageTitle]' for the page title. Typical contents (indented for clarity):

Page &[Page]

This element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: type Always 'text'. D.2 Light Detail Member Format ============================== This section describes the format of "light" detail '.bin' members. These members have a binary format which we describe here in terms of a context-free grammar using the following conventions: NonTerminal => ... Nonterminals have CamelCaps names, and => indicates a production. The right-hand side of a production is often broken across multiple lines. Break points are chosen for aesthetics only and have no semantic significance. 00, 01, ..., ff. A bytes with a fixed value, written as a pair of hexadecimal digits. i0, i1, ..., i9, i10, i11, ... ib0, ib1, ..., ib9, ib10, ib11, ... A 32-bit integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order, respectively, with a fixed value, written in decimal. Prefixed by 'i' for little-endian or 'ib' for big-endian. byte A byte. bool A byte with value 0 or 1. int16 be16 A 16-bit unsigned integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order, respectively. int32 be32 A 32-bit unsigned integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order, respectively. int64 be64 A 64-bit unsigned integer in little-endian or big-endian byte order, respectively. double A 64-bit IEEE floating-point number. float A 32-bit IEEE floating-point number. string bestring A 32-bit unsigned integer, in little-endian or big-endian byte order, respectively, followed by the specified number of bytes of character data. (The encoding is indicated by the Formats nonterminal.) X? X is optional, e.g. 00? is an optional zero byte. X*N X is repeated N times, e.g. byte*10 for ten arbitrary bytes. X[NAME] Gives X the specified NAME. Names are used in textual explanations. They are also used, also bracketed, to indicate counts, e.g. 'int32[n] byte*[n]' for a 32-bit integer followed by the specified number of arbitrary bytes. A | B Either A or B. (X) Parentheses are used for grouping to make precedence clear, especially in the presence of |, e.g. in 00 (01 | 02 | 03) 00. count(X) becount(X) A 32-bit unsigned integer, in little-endian or big-endian byte order, respectively, that indicates the number of bytes in X, followed by X itself. v1(X) In a version 1 '.bin' member, X; in version 3, nothing. (The '.bin' header indicates the version.) v3(X) In a version 3 '.bin' member, X; in version 1, nothing. PSPP uses this grammar to parse light detail members. See 'src/output/spv/light-binary.grammar' in the PSPP source tree for the full grammar. Little-endian byte order is far more common in this format, but a few pieces of the format use big-endian byte order. Light detail members express linear units in two ways: points (pt), at 72/inch, and "device-independent pixels" (px), at 96/inch. To convert from pt to px, multiply by 1.33 and round up. To convert from px to pt, divide by 1.33 and round down. A "light" detail member '.bin' consists of a number of sections concatenated together, terminated by an optional byte 01: Table => Header Titles Footnotes Areas Borders PrintSettings TableSettings Formats Dimensions Axes Cells 01? The following sections go into more detail. D.2.1 Header ------------ An SPV light member begins with a 39-byte header: Header => 01 00 (i1 | i3)[version] bool[x0] bool[x1] bool[rotate-inner-column-labels] bool[rotate-outer-row-labels] bool[x2] int32[x3] int32[min-col-width] int32[max-col-width] int32[min-row-width] int32[max-row-width] int64[table-id] 'version' is a version number that affects the interpretation of some of the other data in the member. We will refer to "version 1" and "version 3" later on and use v1(...) and v3(...) for version-specific formatting (as described previously). If 'rotate-inner-column-labels' is 1, then column labels closest to the data are rotated 90° counterclockwise; otherwise, they are shown in the normal way. If 'rotate-outer-row-labels' is 1, then row labels farthest from the data are rotated 90° counterclockwise; otherwise, they are shown in the normal way. 'min-col-width' is the minimum width that a column will be assigned automatically. 'max-col-width' is the maximum width that a column will be assigned to accommodate a long column label. 'min-row-width' and 'max-row-width' are a similar range for the width of row labels. All of these measurements are in 1/96 inch units (called a "device independent pixel" unit in Windows). 'table-id' is a binary version of the 'tableId' attribute in the structure member that refers to the detail member. For example, if 'tableId' is '-4122591256483201023', then 'table-id' would be 0xc6c99d183b300001. The meaning of the other variable parts of the header is not known. A writer may safely use version 3, true for 'x0', false for 'x1', true for 'x2', and 0x15 for 'x3'. D.2.2 Titles ------------ Titles => Value[title] 01? Value[subtype] 01? 31 Value[user-title] 01? (31 Value[corner-text] | 58) (31 Value[caption] | 58) The Titles follow the Header and specify the table's title, caption, and corner text. The 'user-title' reflects any user editing of the title text or style. The 'title' is the title originally generated by the procedure. Both of these are appropriate for presentation and localized to the user's language. For example, for a frequency table, 'title' and 'user-title' normally name the variable and 'c' is simply "Frequencies". 'subtype' is the same as the 'subType' attribute in the 'table' structure XML element that referred to this member. *Note SPV Structure table Element::, for details. The 'corner-text', if present, is shown in the upper-left corner of the table, above the row headings and to the left of the column headings. It is usually absent. When row dimension labels are displayed in the corner (see 'show-row-labels-in-corner'), corner text is hidden. The 'caption', if present, is shown below the table. 'caption' reflects user editing of the caption. D.2.3 Footnotes --------------- Footnotes => int32[n-footnotes] Footnote*[n-footnotes] Footnote => Value[text] (58 | 31 Value[marker]) int32[show] Each footnote has 'text' and an optional custom 'marker' (such as '*'). The syntax for Value would allow footnotes (and their markers) to reference other footnotes, but in practice this doesn't work. 'show' is a 32-bit signed integer. It is positive to show the footnote or negative to hide it. Its magnitude is often 1, and in other cases tends to be the number of references to the footnote. It is safe to write 1 to show a footnote and -1 to hide it. D.2.4 Areas ----------- Areas => 00? Area*8 Area => byte[index] 31 string[typeface] float[size] int32[style] bool[underline] int32[halign] int32[valign] string[fg-color] string[bg-color] bool[alternate] string[alt-fg-color] string[alt-bg-color] v3(int32[left-margin] int32[right-margin] int32[top-margin] int32[bottom-margin]) Each Area represents the style for a different area of the table, in the following order: title, caption, footer, corner, column labels, row labels, data, and layers. 'index' is the 1-based index of the Area, i.e. 1 for the first Area, through 8 for the final Area. 'typeface' is the string name of the font used in the area. In the corpus, this is 'SansSerif' in over 99% of instances and 'Times New Roman' in the rest. 'size' is the size of the font, in px (*note SPV Light Detail Member Format::). The most common size in the corpus is 12 px. Even though 'size' has a floating-point type, in the corpus its values are always integers. 'style' is a bit mask. Bit 0 (with value 1) is set for bold, bit 1 (with value 2) is set for italic. 'underline' is 1 if the font is underlined, 0 otherwise. 'halign' specifies horizontal alignment: 0 for center, 2 for left, 4 for right, 61453 for decimal, 64173 for mixed. Mixed alignment varies according to type: string data is left-justified, numbers and most other formats are right-justified. 'valign' specifies vertical alignment: 0 for center, 1 for top, 3 for bottom. 'fg-color' and 'bg-color' are the foreground color and background color, respectively. In the corpus, these are always '#000000' and '#ffffff', respectively. 'alternate' is 1 if rows should alternate colors, 0 if all rows should be the same color. When 'alternate' is 1, 'alt-fg-color' and 'alt-bg-color' specify the colors for the alternate rows; otherwise they are empty strings. 'left-margin', 'right-margin', 'top-margin', and 'bottom-margin' are measured in px. D.2.5 Borders ------------- Borders => count( ib1[endian] be32[n-borders] Border*[n-borders] bool[show-grid-lines] 00 00 00) Border => be32[border-type] be32[stroke-type] be32[color] The Borders reflect how borders between regions are drawn. The fixed value of 'endian' can be used to validate the endianness. 'show-grid-lines' is 1 to draw grid lines, otherwise 0. Each Border describes one kind of border. 'n-borders' seems to always be 19. Each 'border-type' appears once (although in an unpredictable order) and correspond to the following borders: 0 Title. 1...4 Left, top, right, and bottom outer frame. 5...8 Left, top, right, and bottom inner frame. 9, 10 Left and top of data area. 11, 12 Horizontal and vertical dimension rows. 13, 14 Horizontal and vertical dimension columns. 15, 16 Horizontal and vertical category rows. 17, 18 Horizontal and vertical category columns. 'stroke-type' describes how a border is drawn, as one of: 0 No line. 1 Solid line. 2 Dashed line. 3 Thick line. 4 Thin line. 5 Double line. 'color' is an RGB color. Bits 24-31 are alpha, bits 16-23 are red, 8-15 are green, 0-7 are blue. An alpha of 255 indicates an opaque color, therefore opaque black is 0xff000000. D.2.6 Print Settings -------------------- PrintSettings => count( ib1[endian] bool[all-layers] bool[paginate-layers] bool[fit-width] bool[fit-length] bool[top-continuation] bool[bottom-continuation] be32[n-orphan-lines] bestring[continuation-string]) The PrintSettings reflect settings for printing. The fixed value of 'endian' can be used to validate the endianness. 'all-layers' is 1 to print all layers, 0 to print only the layer designated by 'current-layer' in TableSettings (*note SPV Light Member Table Settings::). 'paginate-layers' is 1 to print each layer at the start of a new page, 0 otherwise. (This setting is honored only 'all-layers' is 1, since otherwise only one layer is printed.) 'fit-width' and 'fit-length' control whether the table is shrunk to fit within a page's width or length, respectively. 'n-orphan-lines' is the minimum number of rows or columns to put in one part of a table that is broken across pages. If 'top-continuation' is 1, then 'continuation-string' is printed at the top of a page when a table is broken across pages for printing; similarly for 'bottom-continuation' and the bottom of a page. Usually, 'continuation-string' is empty. D.2.7 Table Settings -------------------- TableSettings => count( v3( ib1[endian] be32[x5] be32[current-layer] bool[omit-empty] bool[show-row-labels-in-corner] bool[show-alphabetic-markers] bool[footnote-marker-superscripts] byte[x6] becount( Breakpoints[row-breaks] Breakpoints[column-breaks] Keeps[row-keeps] Keeps[column-keeps] PointKeeps[row-point-keeps] PointKeeps[column-point-keeps] ) bestring[notes] bestring[table-look] )...) Breakpoints => be32[n-breaks] be32*[n-breaks] Keeps => be32[n-keeps] Keep*[n-keeps] Keep => be32[offset] be32[n] PointKeeps => be32[n-point-keeps] PointKeep*[n-point-keeps] PointKeep => be32[offset] be32 be32 The TableSettings reflect display settings. The fixed value of 'endian' can be used to validate the endianness. 'current-layer' is the displayed layer. Suppose there are d layers, numbered 1 through d in the order given in the Dimensions (*note SPV Light Member Dimensions::), and that the displayed value of dimension i is d_i, 0 \le x_i < n_i, where n_i is the number of categories in dimension i. Then 'current-layer' is calculated by the following algorithm: let 'current-layer' = 0 for each i from d downto 1: 'current-layer' = (n_i \times 'current-layer') + x_i If 'omit-empty' is 1, empty rows or columns (ones with nothing in any cell) are hidden; otherwise, they are shown. If 'show-row-labels-in-corner' is 1, then row labels are shown in the upper left corner; otherwise, they are shown nested. If 'show-alphabetic-markers' is 1, markers are shown as letters (e.g. 'a', 'b', 'c', ...); otherwise, they are shown as numbers starting from 1. When 'footnote-marker-superscripts' is 1, footnote markers are shown as superscripts, otherwise as subscripts. The Breakpoints are rows or columns after which there is a page break; for example, a row break of 1 requests a page break after the second row. Usually no breakpoints are specified, indicating that page breaks should be selected automatically. The Keeps are ranges of rows or columns to be kept together without a page break; for example, a row Keep with 'offset' 1 and 'n' 10 requests that the 10 rows starting with the second row be kept together. Usually no Keeps are specified. The PointKeeps seem to be generated automatically based on user-specified Keeps. They seems to indicate a conversion from rows or columns to pixel or point offsets. 'notes' is a text string that contains user-specified notes. It is displayed when the user hovers the cursor over the table, like text in the 'title' attribute in HTML. It is not printed. It is usually empty. 'table-look' is the name of a SPSS "TableLook" table style, such as "Default" or "Academic"; it is often empty. TableSettings ends with an arbitrary number of null bytes. A writer may safely write 82 null bytes. A writer may safely use 4 for 'x5' and 0 for 'x6'. D.2.8 Formats ------------- Formats => int32[n-widths] int32*[n-widths] string[locale] int32[current-layer] bool[x7] bool[x8] bool[x9] Y0 CustomCurrency count( v1(X0?) v3(count(X1 count(X2)) count(X3))) Y0 => int32[epoch] byte[decimal] byte[grouping] CustomCurrency => int32[n-ccs] string*[n-ccs] If 'n-widths' is nonzero, then the accompanying integers are column widths as manually adjusted by the user. 'locale' is a locale including an encoding, such as 'en_US.windows-1252' or 'it_IT.windows-1252'. ('locale' is often duplicated in Y1, described below). 'epoch' is the year that starts the epoch. A 2-digit year is interpreted as belonging to the 100 years beginning at the epoch. The default epoch year is 69 years prior to the current year; thus, in 2017 this field by default contains 1948. In the corpus, 'epoch' ranges from 1943 to 1948, plus some contain -1. 'decimal' is the decimal point character. The observed values are '.' and ','. 'grouping' is the grouping character. Usually, it is ',' if 'decimal' is '.', and vice versa. Other observed values are ''' (apostrophe), ' ' (space), and zero (presumably indicating that digits should not be grouped). 'n-ccs' is observed as either 0 or 5. When it is 5, the following strings are CCA through CCE format strings. *Note (pspp)Custom Currency Formats::. Most commonly these are all '-,,,' but other strings occur. A writer may safely use false for 'x7', 'x8', and 'x9'. X0 .. X0 only appears, optionally, in version 1 members. X0 => byte*14 Y1 Y2 Y1 => string[command] string[command-local] string[language] string[charset] string[locale] bool[x10] bool[include-leading-zero] bool[x12] bool[x13] Y0 Y2 => CustomCurrency byte[missing] bool[x17] 'command' describes the statistical procedure that generated the output, in English. It is not necessarily the literal syntax name of the procedure: for example, NPAR TESTS becomes "Nonparametric Tests." 'command-local' is the procedure's name, translated into the output language; it is often empty and, when it is not, sometimes the same as 'command'. 'include-leading-zero' is the 'LEADZERO' setting for the table, where false is 'OFF' (the default) and true is 'ON'. *Note (pspp)SET LEADZERO::. 'missing' is the character used to indicate that a cell contains a missing value. It is always observed as '.'. A writer may safely use false for 'x10' and 'x17' and true for 'x12' and 'x13'. X1 .. X1 only appears in version 3 members. X1 => bool[x14] byte[show-title] bool[x16] byte[lang] byte[show-variables] byte[show-values] int32[x18] int32[x19] 00*17 bool[x20] bool[show-caption] 'lang' may indicate the language in use. Some values seem to be 0: en, 1: de, 2: es, 3: it, 5: ko, 6: pl, 8: zh-tw, 10: pt_BR, 11: fr. 'show-variables' determines how variables are displayed by default. A value of 1 means to display variable names, 2 to display variable labels when available, 3 to display both (name followed by label, separated by a space). The most common value is 0, which probably means to use a global default. 'show-values' is a similar setting for values. A value of 1 means to display the value, 2 to display the value label when available, 3 to display both. Again, the most common value is 0, which probably means to use a global default. 'show-title' is 1 to show the caption, 10 to hide it. 'show-caption' is true to show the caption, false to hide it. A writer may safely use false for 'x14', false for 'x16', 0 for 'lang', -1 for 'x18' and 'x19', and false for 'x20'. X2 .. X2 only appears in version 3 members. X2 => int32[n-row-heights] int32*[n-row-heights] int32[n-style-map] StyleMap*[n-style-map] int32[n-styles] StylePair*[n-styles] count((i0 i0)?) StyleMap => int64[cell-index] int16[style-index] If present, 'n-row-heights' and the accompanying integers are row heights as manually adjusted by the user. The rest of X2 specifies styles for data cells. At first glance this is odd, because each data cell can have its own style embedded as part of the data, but in practice X2 specifies a style for a cell only if that cell is empty (and thus does not appear in the data at all). Each StyleMap specifies the index of a blank cell, calculated the same was as in the Cells (*note SPV Light Member Cells::), along with a 0-based index into the accompanying StylePair array. A writer may safely omit the optional 'i0 i0' inside the 'count(...)'. X3 .. X3 only appears in version 3 members. X3 => 01 00 byte[x21] 00 00 00 Y1 double[small] 01 (string[dataset] string[datafile] i0 int32[date] i0)? Y2 (int32[x22] i0)? 'small' is a small real number. In the corpus, it overwhelmingly takes the value 0.0001, with zero occasionally seen. Nonzero numbers with format 40 (*note SPV Light Member Value::) whose magnitudes are smaller than displayed in scientific notation. (Thus, a 'small' of zero prevents scientific notation from being chosen.) 'dataset' is the name of the dataset analyzed to produce the output, e.g. 'DataSet1', and 'datafile' the name of the file it was read from, e.g. 'C:\Users\foo\bar.sav'. The latter is sometimes the empty string. 'date' is a date, as seconds since the epoch, i.e. since January 1, 1970. Pivot tables within an SPV file often have dates a few minutes apart, so this is probably a creation date for the table rather than for the file. Sometimes 'dataset', 'datafile', and 'date' are present and other times they are absent. The reader can distinguish by assuming that they are present and then checking whether the presumptive 'dataset' contains a null byte (a valid string never will). 'x22' is usually 0 or 2000000. A writer may safely use 4 for 'x21' and omit 'x22' and the other optional bytes at the end. Encoding ........ Formats contains several indications of character encoding: * 'locale' in Formats itself. * 'locale' in Y1 (in version 1, Y1 is optionally nested inside X0; in version 3, Y1 is nested inside X3). * 'charset' in version 3, in Y1. * 'lang' in X1, in version 3. 'charset', if present, is a good indication of character encoding, and in its absence the encoding suffix on 'locale' in Formats will work. 'locale' in Y1 can be disregarded: it is normally the same as 'locale' in Formats, and it is only present if 'charset' is also. 'lang' is not helpful and should be ignored for character encoding purposes. However, the corpus contains many examples of light members whose strings are encoded in UTF-8 despite declaring some other character set. Furthermore, the corpus contains several examples of light members in which some strings are encoded in UTF-8 (and contain multibyte characters) and other strings are encoded in another character set (and contain non-ASCII characters). PSPP treats any valid UTF-8 string as UTF-8 and only falls back to the declared encoding for strings that are not valid UTF-8. The 'pspp-output' program's 'strings' command can help analyze the encoding in an SPV light member. Use 'pspp-output --help-dev' to see its usage. D.2.9 Dimensions ---------------- A pivot table presents multidimensional data. A Dimension identifies the categories associated with each dimension. Dimensions => int32[n-dims] Dimension*[n-dims] Dimension => Value[name] DimProperties int32[n-categories] Category*[n-categories] DimProperties => byte[x1] byte[x2] int32[x3] bool[hide-dim-label] bool[hide-all-labels] 01 int32[dim-index] 'name' is the name of the dimension, e.g. 'Variables', 'Statistics', or a variable name. The meanings of 'x1' and 'x3' are unknown. 'x1' is usually 0 but many other values have been observed. A writer may safely use 0 for 'x1' and 2 for 'x3'. 'x2' is 0, 1, or 2. For a pivot table with L layer dimensions, R row dimensions, and C column dimensions, 'x2' is 2 for the first L dimensions, 0 for the next R dimensions, and 1 for the remaining C dimensions. This does not mean that the layer dimensions must be presented first, followed by the row dimensions, followed by the column dimensions--on the contrary, they are frequently in a different order--but 'x2' must follow this pattern to prevent the pivot table from being misinterpreted. If 'hide-dim-label' is 00, the pivot table displays a label for the dimension itself. Because usually the group and category labels are enough explanation, it is usually 01. If 'hide-all-labels' is 01, the pivot table omits all labels for the dimension, including group and category labels. It is usually 00. When 'hide-all-labels' is 01, 'show-dim-label' is ignored. 'dim-index' is usually the 0-based index of the dimension, e.g. 0 for the first dimension, 1 for the second, and so on. Sometimes it is -1. There is no visible difference. A writer may safely use the 0-based index. D.2.10 Categories ----------------- Categories are arranged in a tree. Only the leaf nodes in the tree are really categories; the others just serve as grouping constructs. Category => Value[name] (Leaf | Group) Leaf => 00 00 00 i2 int32[leaf-index] i0 Group => bool[merge] 00 01 int32[x23] i-1 int32[n-subcategories] Category*[n-subcategories] 'name' is the name of the category (or group). A Leaf represents a leaf category. The Leaf's 'leaf-index' is a nonnegative integer unique within the Dimension and less than 'n-categories' in the Dimension. If the user does not sort or rearrange the categories, then 'leaf-index' starts at 0 for the first Leaf in the dimension and increments by 1 with each successive Leaf. If the user does sorts or rearrange the categories, then the order of categories in the file reflects that change and 'leaf-index' reflects the original order. A dimension can have no leaf categories at all. A table that contains such a dimension necessarily has no data at all. A Group is a group of nested categories. Usually a Group contains at least one Category, so that 'n-subcategories' is positive, but Groups with zero subcategories have been observed. If a Group's 'merge' is 00, the most common value, then the group is really a distinct group that should be represented as such in the visual representation and user interface. If 'merge' is 01, the categories in this group should be shown and treated as if they were direct children of the group's containing group (or if it has no parent group, then direct children of the dimension), and this group's name is irrelevant and should not be displayed. (Merged groups can be nested!) Writers need not use merged groups. A Group's 'x23' appears to be i2 when all of the categories within a group are leaf categories that directly represent data values for a variable (e.g. in a frequency table or crosstabulation, a group of values in a variable being tabulated) and i0 otherwise. A writer may safely write a constant 0 in this field. D.2.11 Axes ----------- After the dimensions come assignment of each dimension to one of the axes: layers, rows, and columns. Axes => int32[n-layers] int32[n-rows] int32[n-columns] int32*[n-layers] int32*[n-rows] int32*[n-columns] The values of 'n-layers', 'n-rows', and 'n-columns' each specifies the number of dimensions displayed in layers, rows, and columns, respectively. Any of them may be zero. Their values sum to 'n-dimensions' from Dimensions (*note SPV Light Member Dimensions::). The following 'n-dimensions' integers, in three groups, are a permutation of the 0-based dimension numbers. The first 'n-layers' integers specify each of the dimensions represented by layers, the next 'n-rows' integers specify the dimensions represented by rows, and the final 'n-columns' integers specify the dimensions represented by columns. When there is more than one dimension of a given kind, the inner dimensions are given first. (For the layer axis, this means that the first dimension is at the bottom of the list and the last dimension is at the top when the current layer is displayed.) D.2.12 Cells ------------ The final part of an SPV light member contains the actual data. Cells => int32[n-cells] Cell*[n-cells] Cell => int64[index] v1(00?) Value A Cell consists of an 'index' and a Value. Suppose there are d dimensions, numbered 1 through d in the order given in the Dimensions previously, and that dimension i has n_i categories. Consider the cell at coordinates x_i, 1 \le i \le d, and note that 0 \le x_i < n_i. Then the index is calculated by the following algorithm: let index = 0 for each i from 1 to d: index = (n_i \times index) + x_i For example, suppose there are 3 dimensions with 3, 4, and 5 categories, respectively. The cell at coordinates (1, 2, 3) has index 5 \times (4 \times (3 \times 0 + 1) + 2) + 3 = 33. Within a given dimension, the index is the 'leaf-index' in a Leaf. D.2.13 Value ------------ Value is used throughout the SPV light member format. It boils down to a number or a string. Value => 00? 00? 00? 00? RawValue RawValue => 01 ValueMod int32[format] double[x] | 02 ValueMod int32[format] double[x] string[var-name] string[value-label] byte[show] | 03 string[local] ValueMod string[id] string[c] bool[fixed] | 04 ValueMod int32[format] string[value-label] string[var-name] byte[show] string[s] | 05 ValueMod string[var-name] string[var-label] byte[show] | 06 string[local] ValueMod string[id] string[c] | ValueMod string[template] int32[n-args] Argument*[n-args] Argument => i0 Value | int32[x] i0 Value*[x] /* x > 0 */ There are several possible encodings, which one can distinguish by the first nonzero byte in the encoding. 01 The numeric value 'x', intended to be presented to the user formatted according to 'format', which is about the same as the format described for system files (*note System File Output Formats::). The exception is that format 40 is not MTIME but instead approximately a synonym for F format with a different rule for whether a value is shown in scientific notation: a value in format 40 is shown in scientific notation if and only if it is nonzero and its magnitude is less than 'small' (*note SPV Light Member Formats::). Most commonly, 'format' has width 40 (the maximum). An 'x' with the maximum negative double value '-DBL_MAX' represents the system-missing value SYSMIS. (HIGHEST and LOWEST have not been observed.) See *note System File Format::, for more about these special values. 02 Similar to '01', with the additional information that 'x' is a value of variable 'var-name' and has value label 'value-label'. Both 'var-name' and 'value-label' can be the empty string, the latter very commonly. 'show' determines whether to show the numeric value or the value label. A value of 1 means to show the value, 2 to show the label, 3 to show both, and 0 means to use the default specified in 'show-values' (*note SPV Light Member Formats::). 03 A text string, in two forms: 'c' is in English, and sometimes abbreviated or obscure, and 'local' is localized to the user's locale. In an English-language locale, the two strings are often the same, and in the cases where they differ, 'local' is more appropriate for a user interface, e.g. 'c' of "Not a PxP table for MCN..." versus 'local' of "Computed only for a PxP table, where P must be greater than 1." 'c' and 'local' are always either both empty or both nonempty. 'id' is a brief identifying string whose form seems to resemble a programming language identifier, e.g. 'cumulative_percent' or 'factor_14'. It is not unique. 'fixed' is 00 for text taken from user input, such as syntax fragment, expressions, file names, data set names, and 01 for fixed text strings such as names of procedures or statistics. In the former case, 'id' is always the empty string; in the latter case, 'id' is still sometimes empty. 04 The string value 's', intended to be presented to the user formatted according to 'format'. The format for a string is not too interesting, and the corpus contains many clearly invalid formats like A16.39 or A255.127 or A134.1, so readers should probably entirely disregard the format. PSPP only checks 'format' to distinguish AHEX format. 's' is a value of variable 'var-name' and has value label 'value-label'. 'var-name' is never empty but 'value-label' is commonly empty. 'show' has the same meaning as in the encoding for 02. 05 Variable 'var-name' with variable label 'var-label'. In the corpus, 'var-name' is rarely empty and 'var-label' is often empty. 'show' determines whether to show the variable name or the variable label. A value of 1 means to show the name, 2 to show the label, 3 to show both, and 0 means to use the default specified in 'show-variables' (*note SPV Light Member Formats::). 06 Similar to type 03, with 'fixed' assumed to be true. otherwise When the first byte of a RawValue is not one of the above, the RawValue starts with a ValueMod, whose syntax is described in the next section. (A ValueMod always begins with byte 31 or 58.) This case is a template string, analogous to 'printf', followed by one or more Arguments, each of which has one or more values. The template string is copied directly into the output except for the following special syntax, '\%' '\:' '\[' '\]' Each of these expands to the character following '\\', to escape characters that have special meaning in template strings. These are effective inside and outside the '[...]' syntax forms described below. '\n' Expands to a new-line, inside or outside the '[...]' forms described below. '^I' Expands to a formatted version of argument I, which must have only a single value. For example, '^1' expands to the first argument's 'value'. '[:A:]I' Expands A for each of the values in I. A should contain one or more '^J' conversions, which are drawn from the values for argument I in order. Some examples from the corpus: '[:^1:]1' All of the values for the first argument, concatenated. '[:^1\n:]1' Expands to the values for the first argument, each followed by a new-line. '[:^1 = ^2:]2' Expands to 'X = Y' where X is the second argument's first value and Y is its second value. (This would be used only if the argument has two values. If there were more values, the second and third values would be directly concatenated, which would look funny.) '[A:B:]I' This extends the previous form so that the first values are expanded using A and later values are expanded using B. For an unknown reason, within A the '^J' conversions are instead written as '%J'. Some examples from the corpus: '[%1:*^1:]1' Expands to all of the values for the first argument, separated by '*'. '[%1 = %2:, ^1 = ^2:]1' Given appropriate values for the first argument, expands to 'X = 1, Y = 2, Z = 3'. '[%1:, ^1:]1' Given appropriate values, expands to '1, 2, 3'. The template string is localized to the user's locale. A writer may safely omit all of the optional 00 bytes at the beginning of a Value, except that it should write a single 00 byte before a templated Value. D.2.14 ValueMod --------------- A ValueMod can specify special modifications to a Value. ValueMod => 58 | 31 int32[n-refs] int16*[n-refs] int32[n-subscripts] string*[n-subscripts] v1(00 (i1 | i2) 00? 00? int32 00? 00?) v3(count(TemplateString StylePair)) TemplateString => count((count((i0 (58 | 31 55))?) (58 | 31 string[id]))?) StylePair => (31 FontStyle | 58) (31 CellStyle | 58) FontStyle => bool[bold] bool[italic] bool[underline] bool[show] string[fg-color] string[bg-color] string[typeface] byte[size] CellStyle => int32[halign] int32[valign] double[decimal-offset] int16[left-margin] int16[right-margin] int16[top-margin] int16[bottom-margin] A ValueMod that begins with "31" specifies special modifications to a Value. Each of the 'n-refs' integers is a reference to a Footnote (*note SPV Light Member Footnotes::) by 0-based index. Footnote markers are shown appended to the main text of the Value, as superscripts or subscripts. The 'subscripts', if present, are strings to append to the main text of the Value, as subscripts. Each subscript text is a brief indicator, e.g. 'a' or 'b', with its meaning indicated by the table caption. When multiple subscripts are present, they are displayed separated by commas. The 'id' inside the TemplateString, if present, is a template string for substitutions using the syntax explained previously. It appears to be an English-language version of the localized template string in the Value in which the Template is nested. A writer may safely omit the optional fixed data in TemplateString. FontStyle and CellStyle, if present, change the style for this individual Value. In FontStyle, 'bold', 'italic', and 'underline' control the particular style. 'show' is ordinarily 1; if it is 0, then the cell data is not shown. 'fg-color' and 'bg-color' are strings in the format '#rrggbb', e.g. '#ff0000' for red or '#ffffff' for white. The empty string is occasionally observed also. The 'size' is a font size in units of 1/128 inch. In CellStyle, 'halign' is 0 for center, 2 for left, 4 for right, 6 for decimal, 0xffffffad for mixed. For decimal alignment, 'decimal-offset' is the decimal point's offset from the right side of the cell, in pt (*note SPV Light Detail Member Format::). 'valign' specifies vertical alignment: 0 for center, 1 for top, 3 for bottom. 'left-margin', 'right-margin', 'top-margin', and 'bottom-margin' are in pt. D.3 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 variables, each of which is a 1-dimensional array of numbers or strings or a mix. Thus, the legacy binary member format is quite simple. This section uses the same context-free grammar notation as in the previous section, with the following additions: vAF(X) In a version 0xaf legacy member, X; in other versions, nothing. (The legacy member header indicates the version; see below.) vB0(X) In a version 0xb0 legacy member, X; in other versions, nothing. A legacy detail member '.bin' has the following overall format: LegacyBinary => 00 byte[version] int16[n-sources] int32[member-size] Metadata*[n-sources] #Data*[n-sources] #Strings? '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 'n-sources' data sources, each of which has Metadata and Data. 'member-size' is the size of the legacy binary member, in bytes. The Data and Strings above are commented out because the Metadata has some oddities that mean that the Data sometimes seems to start at an unexpected place. The following section goes into detail. D.3.1 Metadata -------------- Metadata => int32[n-values] int32[n-variables] int32[data-offset] vAF(byte*28[source-name]) vB0(byte*64[source-name] int32[x]) A data source has 'n-variables' variables, each with 'n-values' data values. 'source-name' is a 28- or 64-byte string padded on the right with 0-bytes. The names that appear in the corpus are very generic: usually 'tableData' for pivot table data or 'source0' for chart data. A given Metadata's 'data-offset' is the offset, in bytes, from the beginning of the member to the start of the corresponding Data. This allows programs to skip to the beginning of the data for a particular source. In every case in the corpus, the Data follow the Metadata in the same order, but it is important to use 'data-offset' instead of reading sequentially through the file because of the exception described below. One SPV file in the corpus has legacy binary members with version 0xb0 but a 28-byte 'source-name' field (and only a single source). In practice, this means that the 64-byte 'source-name' used in version 0xb0 has a lot of 0-bytes in the middle followed by the 'variable-name' of the following Data. As long as a reader treats the first 0-byte in the 'source-name' as terminating the string, it can properly interpret these members. The meaning of 'x' in version 0xb0 is unknown. D.3.2 Numeric Data ------------------ Data => Variable*[n-variables] Variable => byte*288[variable-name] double*[n-values] Data follow the Metadata in the legacy binary format, with sources in the same order (but readers should use the 'data-offset' in Metadata records, rather than reading sequentially). Each Variable begins with a 'variable-name' that generally indicates its role in the pivot table, e.g. "cell", "cellFormat", "dimension0categories", "dimension0group0", followed by the numeric data, one double per datum. A double with the maximum negative double '-DBL_MAX' represents the system-missing value SYSMIS. D.3.3 String Data ----------------- Strings => SourceMaps[maps] Labels SourceMaps => int32[n-maps] SourceMap*[n-maps] SourceMap => string[source-name] int32[n-variables] VariableMap*[n-variables] VariableMap => string[variable-name] int32[n-data] DatumMap*[n-data] DatumMap => int32[value-idx] int32[label-idx] Labels => int32[n-labels] Label*[n-labels] Label => int32[frequency] string[label] Each variable may include a mix of numeric and string data values. If a legacy binary member contains any string data, Strings is present; otherwise, it ends just after the last Data element. The string data overlays the numeric data. When a variable includes any string data, its Variable represents the string values with a SYSMIS or NaN placeholder. (Not all such values need be placeholders.) Each SourceMap provides a mapping between SYSMIS or NaN values in source 'source-name' and the string data that they represent. 'n-variables' is the number of variables in the source that include string data. More precisely, it is the 1-based index of the last variable in the source that includes any string data; thus, it would be 4 if there are 5 variables and only the fourth one includes string data. A VariableMap repeats its variable's name, but variables are always present in the same order as the source, starting from the first variable, without skipping any even if they have no string values. Each VariableMap contains DatumMap nonterminals, each of which maps from a 0-based index within its variable's data to a 0-based label index, e.g. pair 'value-idx' = 2, 'label-idx' = 3, means that the third data value (which must be SYSMIS or NaN) 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 'label'. Each label also includes a 'frequency' that reports the number of DatumMaps that reference it (although this is not useful). D.4 Legacy Detail Member XML Format =================================== The design of the detail XML format is not what one would end up with for describing pivot tables. This is because it is a special case of a much more general format ("visualization XML" or "VizML") that can describe a wide range of visualizations. Most of this generality is overkill for tables, and so we end up with a funny subset of a general-purpose format. An XML Schema for VizML is available, distributed with SPSS binaries, under a nonfree license. It contains documentation that is occasionally helpful. This section describes the detail XML format using the same notation already used for the structure XML format (*note SPV Structure Member Format::). See 'src/output/spv/detail-xml.grammar' in the PSPP source tree for the full grammar that it uses for parsing. The important elements of the detail XML format are: * Variables. *Note SPV Detail Variable Elements::. * Assignment of variables to axes. A variable can appear as columns, or rows, or layers. The 'faceting' element and its sub-elements describe this assignment. * Styles and other annotations. This description is not detailed enough to write legacy tables. Instead, write tables in the light binary format. D.4.1 The 'visualization' Element --------------------------------- visualization :creator :date :lang :name :style[style_ref]=ref style :type :version :schemaLocation? => visualization_extension? userSource (sourceVariable | derivedVariable)+ categoricalDomain? graph labelFrame[lf1]* container? labelFrame[lf2]* style+ layerController? extension[visualization_extension] :numRows=int? :showGridline=bool? :minWidthSet=(true)? :maxWidthSet=(true)? => EMPTY userSource :missing=(listwise | pairwise)? => EMPTY categoricalDomain => variableReference simpleSort simpleSort :method[sort_method]=(custom) => categoryOrder container :style=ref style => container_extension? location+ labelFrame* extension[container_extension] :combinedFootnotes=(true) => EMPTY layerController :source=(tableData) :target=ref label? => EMPTY The 'visualization' element is the root of detail XML member. It has the following attributes: -- Attribute: creator The version of the software that created this SPV file, as a string of the form 'xxyyzz', which represents software version xx.yy.zz, e.g. '160001' is version 16.0.1. The corpus includes major versions 16 through 19. -- Attribute: date The date on the which the file was created, as a string of the form 'YYYY-MM-DD'. -- Attribute: lang The locale used for output, in Windows format, which is similar to the format used in Unix with the underscore replaced by a hyphen, e.g. 'en-US', 'en-GB', 'el-GR', 'sr-Cryl-RS'. -- Attribute: name The title of the pivot table, localized to the output language. -- Attribute: style The base style for the pivot table. In every example in the corpus, the 'style' element has no attributes other than 'id'. -- Attribute: type A floating-point number. The meaning is unknown. -- Attribute: version The visualization schema version number. In the corpus, the value is one of 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, and 2.8. The 'userSource' element has no visible effect. The 'extension' element as a child of 'visualization' has the following attributes. -- Attribute: numRows An integer that presumably defines the number of rows in the displayed pivot table. -- Attribute: showGridline Always set to 'false' in the corpus. -- Attribute: minWidthSet -- Attribute: maxWidthSet Always set to 'true' in the corpus. The 'extension' element as a child of 'container' has the following attribute -- Attribute: combinedFootnotes Meaning unknown. The 'categoricalDomain' and 'simpleSort' elements have no visible effect. The 'layerController' element has no visible effect. D.4.2 Variable Elements ----------------------- A "variable" in detail XML is a 1-dimensional array of data. Each element of the array may, independently, have string or numeric content. All of the variables in a given detail XML member either have the same number of elements or have zero elements. Two different elements define variables and their content: 'sourceVariable' These variables' data comes from the associated 'tableData.bin' member. 'derivedVariable' These variables are defined in terms of a mapping function from a source variable, or they are empty. A variable named 'cell' always exists. This variable holds the data displayed in the table. Variables in detail XML roughly correspond to the dimensions in a light detail member. Each dimension has the following variables with stylized names, where N is a number for the dimension starting from 0: 'dimensionNcategories' The dimension's leaf categories (*note SPV Light Member Categories::). 'dimensionNgroup0' Present only if the dimension's categories are grouped, this variable holds the group labels for the categories. Grouping is inferred through adjacent identical labels. Categories that are not part of a group have empty-string data in this variable. 'dimensionNgroup1' Present only if the first-level groups are further grouped, this variable holds the labels for the second-level groups. There can be additional variables with further levels of grouping. 'dimensionN' An empty variable. Determining the data for a (non-empty) variable is a multi-step process: 1. Draw initial data from its source, for a 'sourceVariable', or from another named variable, for a 'derivedVariable'. 2. Apply mappings from 'valueMapEntry' elements within the 'derivedVariable' element, if any. 3. Apply mappings from 'relabel' elements within a 'format' or 'stringFormat' element in the 'sourceVariable' or 'derivedVariable' element, if any. 4. If the variable is a 'sourceVariable' with a 'labelVariable' attribute, and there were no mappings to apply in previous steps, then replace each element of the variable by the corresponding value in the label variable. A single variable's data can be modified in two of the steps, if both 'valueMapEntry' and 'relabel' are used. The following example from the corpus maps several integers to 2, then maps 2 in turn to the string "Input": D.4.2.1 The 'sourceVariable' Element .................................... sourceVariable :id :categorical=(true) :source :domain=ref categoricalDomain? :sourceName :dependsOn=ref sourceVariable? :label? :labelVariable=ref sourceVariable? => variable_extension* (format | stringFormat)? This element defines a variable whose data comes from the 'tableData.bin' member that corresponds to this '.xml'. This element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: id An 'id' is always present because this element exists to be referenced from other elements. -- Attribute: categorical Always set to 'true'. -- Attribute: source Always set to 'tableData', the 'source-name' in the corresponding 'tableData.bin' member (*note SPV Legacy Member Metadata::). -- Attribute: sourceName The name of a variable within the source, corresponding to the 'variable-name' in the 'tableData.bin' member (*note SPV Legacy Member Numeric Data::). -- Attribute: label The variable label, if any. -- Attribute: labelVariable The 'variable-name' of a variable whose string values correspond one-to-one with the values of this variable and are suitable for use as value labels. -- Attribute: dependsOn This attribute doesn't affect the display of a table. D.4.2.2 The 'derivedVariable' Element ..................................... derivedVariable :id :categorical=(true) :value :dependsOn=ref sourceVariable? => variable_extension* (format | stringFormat)? valueMapEntry* Like 'sourceVariable', this element defines a variable whose values can be used elsewhere in the visualization. Instead of being read from a data source, the variable's data are defined by a mathematical expression. This element has the following attributes. -- Attribute: id An 'id' is always present because this element exists to be referenced from other elements. -- Attribute: categorical Always set to 'true'. -- Attribute: value An expression that defines the variable's value. In theory this could be an arbitrary expression in terms of constants, functions, and other variables, e.g. (VAR1 + VAR2) / 2. In practice, the corpus contains only the following forms of expressions: 'constant(0)' 'constant(VARIABLE)' All zeros. The reason why a variable is sometimes named is unknown. Sometimes the "variable name" has spaces in it. 'map(VARIABLE)' Transforms the values in the named VARIABLE using the 'valueMapEntry's contained within the element. -- Attribute: dependsOn This attribute doesn't affect the display of a table. D.4.2.3 The 'valueMapEntry' Element ................................... valueMapEntry :from :to => EMPTY A 'valueMapEntry' element defines a mapping from one or more values of a source expression to a target value. (In the corpus, the source expression is always just the name of a variable.) Each target value requires a separate 'valueMapEntry'. If multiple source values map to the same target value, they can be combined or separate. In the corpus, all of the source and target values are integers. 'valueMapEntry' has the following attributes. -- Attribute: from A source value, or multiple source values separated by semicolons, e.g. '0' or '13;14;15;16'. -- Attribute: to The target value, e.g. '0'. D.4.3 The 'extension' Element ----------------------------- This is a general-purpose "extension" element. Readers that don't understand a given extension should be able to safely ignore it. The attributes on this element, and their meanings, vary based on the context. Each known usage is described separately below. The current extensions use attributes exclusively, without any nested elements. 'container' Parent Element .......................... extension[container_extension] :combinedFootnotes=(true) => EMPTY With 'container' as its parent element, 'extension' has the following attributes. -- Attribute: combinedFootnotes Always set to 'true' in the corpus. 'sourceVariable' and 'derivedVariable' Parent Element ..................................................... extension[variable_extension] :from :helpId => EMPTY With 'sourceVariable' or 'derivedVariable' as its parent element, 'extension' has the following attributes. A given parent element often contains several 'extension' elements that specify the meaning of the source data's variables or sources, e.g. More commonly they are less helpful, e.g. -- Attribute: from An integer or a name like "dimension0". -- Attribute: helpId An identifier. D.4.4 The 'graph' Element ------------------------- graph :cellStyle=ref style :style=ref style => location+ coordinates faceting facetLayout interval coordinates => EMPTY 'graph' has the following attributes. -- Attribute: cellStyle -- Attribute: style Each of these is the 'id' of a 'style' element (*note SPV Detail style Element::). The former is the default style for individual cells, the latter for the entire table. D.4.5 The 'location' Element ---------------------------- location :part=(height | width | top | bottom | left | right) :method=(sizeToContent | attach | fixed | same) :min=dimension? :max=dimension? :target=ref (labelFrame | graph | container)? :value? => EMPTY Each instance of this element specifies where some part of the table frame is located. All the examples in the corpus have four instances of this element, one for each of the parts 'height', 'width', 'left', and 'top'. Some examples in the corpus add a fifth for part 'bottom', even though it is not clear how all of 'top', 'bottom', and 'height' can be honored at the same time. In any case, 'location' seems to have little importance in representing tables; a reader can safely ignore it. -- Attribute: part The part of the table being located. -- Attribute: method How the location is determined: 'sizeToContent' Based on the natural size of the table. Observed only for parts 'height' and 'width'. 'attach' Based on the location specified in 'target'. Observed only for parts 'top' and 'bottom'. 'fixed' Using the value in 'value'. Observed only for parts 'top', 'bottom', and 'left'. 'same' Same as the specified 'target'. Observed only for part 'left'. -- Attribute: min Minimum size. Only observed with value '100pt'. Only observed for part 'width'. -- Dependent: target Required when 'method' is 'attach' or 'same', not observed otherwise. This identifies an element to attach to. Observed with the ID of 'title', 'footnote', 'graph', and other elements. -- Dependent: value Required when 'method' is 'fixed', not observed otherwise. Observed values are '0%', '0px', '1px', and '3px' on parts 'top' and 'left', and '100%' on part 'bottom'. D.4.6 The 'faceting' Element ---------------------------- faceting => layer[layers1]* cross layer[layers2]* cross => (unity | nest) (unity | nest) unity => EMPTY nest => variableReference[vars]+ variableReference :ref=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) => EMPTY layer :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) :value :visible=bool? :method[layer_method]=(nest)? :titleVisible=bool? => EMPTY The 'faceting' element describes the row, column, and layer structure of the table. Its 'cross' child determines the row and column structure, and each 'layer' child (if any) represents a layer. Layers may appear before or after 'cross'. The 'cross' element describes the row and column structure of the table. It has exactly two children, the first of which describes the table's columns and the second the table's rows. Each child is a 'nest' element if the table has any dimensions along the axis in question, otherwise a 'unity' element. A 'nest' element contains of one or more dimensions listed from innermost to outermost, each represented by 'variableReference' child elements. Each variable in a dimension is listed in order. *Note SPV Detail Variable Elements::, for information on the variables that comprise a dimension. A 'nest' can contain a single dimension, e.g.: A 'nest' can contain multiple dimensions, e.g.: A 'nest' may have no dimensions, in which case it still has one 'variableReference' child, which references a 'derivedVariable' whose 'value' attribute is 'constant(0)'. In the corpus, such a 'derivedVariable' has 'row' or 'column', respectively, as its 'id'. This is equivalent to using a 'unity' element in place of 'nest'. A 'variableReference' element refers to a variable through its 'ref' attribute. Each 'layer' element represents a dimension, e.g.: 'layer' has the following attributes. -- Attribute: variable Refers to a 'sourceVariable' or 'derivedVariable' element. -- Attribute: value The value to select. For a category variable, this is always '0'; for a data variable, it is the same as the 'variable' attribute. -- Attribute: visible Whether the layer is visible. Generally, category layers are visible and data layers are not, but sometimes this attribute is omitted. -- Attribute: method When present, this is always 'nest'. D.4.7 The 'facetLayout' Element ------------------------------- facetLayout => tableLayout setCellProperties[scp1]* facetLevel+ setCellProperties[scp2]* tableLayout :verticalTitlesInCorner=bool :style=ref style? :fitCells=(ticks both)? => EMPTY The 'facetLayout' element and its descendants control styling for the table. Its 'tableLayout' child has the following attributes -- Attribute: verticalTitlesInCorner If true, in the absence of corner text, row headings will be displayed in the corner. -- Attribute: style Refers to a 'style' element. -- Attribute: fitCells Meaning unknown. The 'facetLevel' Element ........................ facetLevel :level=int :gap=dimension? => axis axis :style=ref style => label? majorTicks majorTicks :labelAngle=int :length=dimension :style=ref style :tickFrameStyle=ref style :labelFrequency=int? :stagger=bool? => gridline? gridline :style=ref style :zOrder=int => EMPTY Each 'facetLevel' describes a 'variableReference' or 'layer', and a table has one 'facetLevel' element for each such element. For example, an SPV detail member that contains four 'variableReference' elements and two 'layer' elements will contain six 'facetLevel' elements. In the corpus, 'facetLevel' elements and the elements that they describe are always in the same order. The correspondence may also be observed in two other ways. First, one may use the 'level' attribute, described below. Second, in the corpus, a 'facetLevel' always has an 'id' that is the same as the 'id' of the element it describes with '_facetLevel' appended. One should not formally rely on this, of course, but it is usefully indicative. -- Attribute: level A 1-based index into the 'variableReference' and 'layer' elements, e.g. a 'facetLayout' with a 'level' of 1 describes the first 'variableReference' in the SPV detail member, and in a member with four 'variableReference' elements, a 'facetLayout' with a 'level' of 5 describes the first 'layer' in the member. -- Attribute: gap Always observed as '0pt'. Each 'facetLevel' contains an 'axis', which in turn may contain a 'label' for the 'facetLevel' (*note SPV Detail label Element::) and does contain a 'majorTicks' element. -- Attribute: labelAngle Normally 0. The value -90 causes inner column or outer row labels to be rotated vertically. -- Attribute: style -- Attribute: tickFrameStyle Each refers to a 'style' element. 'style' is the style of the tick labels, 'tickFrameStyle' the style for the frames around the labels. D.4.8 The 'label' Element ------------------------- label :style=ref style :textFrameStyle=ref style? :purpose=(title | subTitle | subSubTitle | layer | footnote)? => text+ | descriptionGroup descriptionGroup :target=ref faceting :separator? => (description | text)+ description :name=(variable | value) => EMPTY text :usesReference=int? :definesReference=int? :position=(subscript | superscript)? :style=ref style => TEXT This element represents a label on some aspect of the table. -- Attribute: style -- Attribute: textFrameStyle Each of these refers to a 'style' element. 'style' is the style of the label text, 'textFrameStyle' the style for the frame around the label. -- Attribute: purpose The kind of entity being labeled. A 'descriptionGroup' concatenates one or more elements to form a label. Each element can be a 'text' element, which contains literal text, or a 'description' element that substitutes a value or a variable name. -- Attribute: target The 'id' of an element being described. In the corpus, this is always 'faceting'. -- Attribute: separator A string to separate the description of multiple groups, if the 'target' has more than one. In the corpus, this is always a new-line. Typical contents for a 'descriptionGroup' are a value by itself: or a variable and its value, separated by a colon: : A 'description' is like a macro that expands to some property of the target of its parent 'descriptionGroup'. The 'name' attribute specifies the property. D.4.9 The 'setCellProperties' Element ------------------------------------- setCellProperties :applyToConverse=bool? => (setStyle | setFrameStyle | setFormat | setMetaData)* union[union_]? The 'setCellProperties' element sets style properties of cells or row or column labels. Interpreting 'setCellProperties' requires answering two questions: which cells or labels to style, and what styles to use. Which Cells? ............ union => intersect+ intersect => where+ | intersectWhere | alternating | EMPTY where :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) :include => EMPTY intersectWhere :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) :variable2=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) => EMPTY alternating => EMPTY When 'union' is present with 'intersect' children, each of those children specifies a group of cells that should be styled, and the total group is all those cells taken together. When 'union' is absent, every cell is styled. One attribute on 'setCellProperties' affects the choice of cells: -- Attribute: applyToConverse If true, this inverts the meaning of the cell selection: the selected cells are the ones _not_ designated. This is confusing, given the additional restrictions of 'union', but in the corpus 'applyToConverse' is never present along with 'union'. An 'intersect' specifies restrictions on the cells to be matched. Each 'where' child specifies which values of a given variable to include. The attributes of 'intersect' are: -- Attribute: variable Refers to a variable, e.g. 'dimension0categories'. Only "categories" variables make sense here, but other variables, e.g. 'dimension0group0map', are sometimes seen. The reader may ignore these. -- Attribute: include A value, or multiple values separated by semicolons, e.g. '0' or '13;14;15;16'. PSPP ignores 'setCellProperties' when 'intersectWhere' is present. What Styles? ............ setStyle :target=ref (labeling | graph | interval | majorTicks) :style=ref style => EMPTY setMetaData :target=ref graph :key :value => EMPTY setFormat :target=ref (majorTicks | labeling) :reset=bool? => format | numberFormat | stringFormat+ | dateTimeFormat | elapsedTimeFormat setFrameStyle :style=ref style :target=ref majorTicks => EMPTY The 'set*' children of 'setCellProperties' determine the styles to set. When 'setCellProperties' contains a 'setFormat' whose 'target' references a 'labeling' element, or if it contains a 'setStyle' that references a 'labeling' or 'interval' element, the 'setCellProperties' sets the style for table cells. The format from the 'setFormat', if present, replaces the cells' format. The style from the 'setStyle' that references 'labeling', if present, replaces the label's font and cell styles, except that the background color is taken instead from the 'interval''s style, if present. When 'setCellProperties' contains a 'setFormat' whose 'target' references a 'majorTicks' element, or if it contains a 'setStyle' whose 'target' references a 'majorTicks', or if it contains a 'setFrameStyle' element, the 'setCellProperties' sets the style for row or column labels. In this case, the 'setCellProperties' always contains a single 'where' element whose 'variable' designates the variable whose labels are to be styled. The format from the 'setFormat', if present, replaces the labels' format. The style from the 'setStyle' that references 'majorTicks', if present, replaces the labels' font and cell styles, except that the background color is taken instead from the 'setFrameStyle''s style, if present. When 'setCellProperties' contains a 'setStyle' whose 'target' references a 'graph' element, and one that references a 'labeling' element, and the 'union' element contains 'alternating', the 'setCellProperties' sets the alternate foreground and background colors for the data area. The foreground color is taken from the style referenced by the 'setStyle' that targets the 'graph', the background color from the 'setStyle' for 'labeling'. A reader may ignore a 'setCellProperties' that only contains 'setMetaData', as well as 'setMetaData' within other 'setCellProperties'. A reader may ignore a 'setCellProperties' whose only 'set*' child is a 'setStyle' that targets the 'graph' element. The 'setStyle' Element ...................... setStyle :target=ref (labeling | graph | interval | majorTicks) :style=ref style => EMPTY This element associates a style with the target. -- Attribute: target The 'id' of an element whose style is to be set. -- Attribute: style The 'id' of a 'style' element that identifies the style to set on the target. D.4.10 The 'setFormat' Element ------------------------------ setFormat :target=ref (majorTicks | labeling) :reset=bool? => format | numberFormat | stringFormat+ | dateTimeFormat | elapsedTimeFormat This element sets the format of the target, "format" in this case meaning the SPSS print format for a variable. The details of this element vary depending on the schema version, as declared in the root 'visualization' element's 'version' attribute (*note SPV Detail visualization Element::). A reader can interpret the content without knowing the schema version. The 'setFormat' element itself has the following attributes. -- Attribute: target Refers to an element whose style is to be set. -- Attribute: reset If this is 'true', this format replaces the target's previous format. If it is 'false', the modifies the previous format. D.4.10.1 The 'numberFormat' Element ................................... numberFormat :minimumIntegerDigits=int? :maximumFractionDigits=int? :minimumFractionDigits=int? :useGrouping=bool? :scientific=(onlyForSmall | whenNeeded | true | false)? :small=real? :prefix? :suffix? => affix* Specifies a format for displaying a number. The available options are a superset of those available from PSPP print formats. PSPP chooses a print format type for a 'numberFormat' as follows: 1. If 'scientific' is 'true', uses 'E' format. 2. If 'prefix' is '$', uses 'DOLLAR' format. 3. If 'suffix' is '%', uses 'PCT' format. 4. If 'useGrouping' is 'true', uses 'COMMA' format. 5. Otherwise, uses 'F' format. For translating to a print format, PSPP uses 'maximumFractionDigits' as the number of decimals, unless that attribute is missing or out of the range [0,15], in which case it uses 2 decimals. -- Attribute: minimumIntegerDigits Minimum number of digits to display before the decimal point. Always observed as '0'. -- Attribute: maximumFractionDigits -- Attribute: minimumFractionDigits Maximum or minimum, respectively, number of digits to display after the decimal point. The observed values of each attribute range from 0 to 9. -- Attribute: useGrouping Whether to use the grouping character to group digits in large numbers. -- Attribute: scientific This attribute controls when and whether the number is formatted in scientific notation. It takes the following values: 'onlyForSmall' Use scientific notation only when the number's magnitude is smaller than the value of the 'small' attribute. 'whenNeeded' Use scientific notation when the number will not otherwise fit in the available space. 'true' Always use scientific notation. Not observed in the corpus. 'false' Never use scientific notation. A number that won't otherwise fit will be replaced by an error indication (see the 'errorCharacter' attribute). Not observed in the corpus. -- Attribute: small Only present when the 'scientific' attribute is 'onlyForSmall', this is a numeric magnitude below which the number will be formatted in scientific notation. The values '0' and '0.0001' have been observed. The value '0' seems like a pathological choice, since no real number has a magnitude less than 0; perhaps in practice such a choice is equivalent to setting 'scientific' to 'false'. -- Attribute: prefix -- Attribute: suffix Specifies a prefix or a suffix to apply to the formatted number. Only 'suffix' has been observed, with value '%'. D.4.10.2 The 'stringFormat' Element ................................... stringFormat => relabel* affix* relabel :from=real :to => EMPTY The 'stringFormat' element specifies how to display a string. By default, a string is displayed verbatim, but 'relabel' can change it. The 'relabel' element appears as a child of 'stringFormat' (and of 'format', when it is used to format strings). It specifies how to display a given value. It is used to implement value labels and to display the system-missing value in a human-readable way. It has the following attributes: -- Attribute: from The value to map. In the corpus this is an integer or the system-missing value '-1.797693134862316E300'. -- Attribute: to The string to display in place of the value of 'from'. In the corpus this is a wide variety of value labels; the system-missing value is mapped to '.'. D.4.10.3 The 'dateTimeFormat' Element ..................................... dateTimeFormat :baseFormat[dt_base_format]=(date | time | dateTime) :separatorChars? :mdyOrder=(dayMonthYear | monthDayYear | yearMonthDay)? :showYear=bool? :yearAbbreviation=bool? :showQuarter=bool? :quarterPrefix? :quarterSuffix? :showMonth=bool? :monthFormat=(long | short | number | paddedNumber)? :showWeek=bool? :weekPadding=bool? :weekSuffix? :showDayOfWeek=bool? :dayOfWeekAbbreviation=bool? :dayPadding=bool? :dayOfMonthPadding=bool? :hourPadding=bool? :minutePadding=bool? :secondPadding=bool? :showDay=bool? :showHour=bool? :showMinute=bool? :showSecond=bool? :showMillis=bool? :dayType=(month | year)? :hourFormat=(AMPM | AS_24 | AS_12)? => affix* This element appears only in schema version 2.5 and earlier (*note SPV Detail visualization Element::). Data to be formatted in date formats is stored as strings in legacy data, in the format 'yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.SSS' and must be parsed and reformatted by the reader. The following attribute is required. -- Attribute: baseFormat Specifies whether a date and time are both to be displayed, or just one of them. Many of the attributes' meanings are obvious. The following seem to be worth documenting. -- Attribute: separatorChars Exactly four characters. In order, these are used for: decimal point, grouping, date separator, time separator. Always '.,-:'. -- Attribute: mdyOrder Within a date, the order of the days, months, and years. 'dayMonthYear' is the only observed value, but one would expect that 'monthDayYear' and 'yearMonthDay' to be reasonable as well. -- Attribute: showYear -- Attribute: yearAbbreviation Whether to include the year and, if so, whether the year should be shown abbreviated, that is, with only 2 digits. Each is 'true' or 'false'; only values of 'true' and 'false', respectively, have been observed. -- Attribute: showMonth -- Attribute: monthFormat Whether to include the month ('true' or 'false') and, if so, how to format it. 'monthFormat' is one of the following: 'long' The full name of the month, e.g. in an English locale, 'September'. 'short' The abbreviated name of the month, e.g. in an English locale, 'Sep'. 'number' The number representing the month, e.g. 9 for September. 'paddedNumber' A two-digit number representing the month, e.g. 09 for September. Only values of 'true' and 'short', respectively, have been observed. -- Attribute: dayType This attribute is always 'month' in the corpus, specifying that the day of the month is to be displayed; a value of 'year' is supposed to indicate that the day of the year, where 1 is January 1, is to be displayed instead. -- Attribute: hourFormat 'hourFormat', if present, is one of: 'AMPM' The time is displayed with an 'am' or 'pm' suffix, e.g. '10:15pm'. 'AS_24' The time is displayed in a 24-hour format, e.g. '22:15'. This is the only value observed in the corpus. 'AS_12' The time is displayed in a 12-hour format, without distinguishing morning or evening, e.g. '10;15'. 'hourFormat' is sometimes present for 'elapsedTime' formats, which is confusing since a time duration does not have a concept of AM or PM. This might indicate a bug in the code that generated the XML in the corpus, or it might indicate that 'elapsedTime' is sometimes used to format a time of day. For a 'baseFormat' of 'date', PSPP chooses a print format type based on the following rules: 1. If 'showQuarter' is true: 'QYR'. 2. Otherwise, if 'showWeek' is true: 'WKYR'. 3. Otherwise, if 'mdyOrder' is 'dayMonthYear': a. If 'monthFormat' is 'number' or 'paddedNumber': 'EDATE'. b. Otherwise: 'DATE'. 4. Otherwise, if 'mdyOrder' is 'yearMonthDay': 'SDATE'. 5. Otherwise, 'ADATE'. For a 'baseFormat' of 'dateTime', PSPP uses 'YMDHMS' if 'mdyOrder' is 'yearMonthDay' and 'DATETIME' otherwise. For a 'baseFormat' of 'time', PSPP uses 'DTIME' if 'showDay' is true, otherwise 'TIME' if 'showHour' is true, otherwise 'MTIME'. For a 'baseFormat' of 'date', the chosen width is the minimum for the format type, adding 2 if 'yearAbbreviation' is false or omitted. For other base formats, the chosen width is the minimum for its type, plus 3 if 'showSecond' is true, plus 4 more if 'showMillis' is also true. Decimals are 0 by default, or 3 if 'showMillis' is true. D.4.10.4 The 'elapsedTimeFormat' Element ........................................ elapsedTimeFormat :baseFormat[dt_base_format]=(date | time | dateTime) :dayPadding=bool? :hourPadding=bool? :minutePadding=bool? :secondPadding=bool? :showYear=bool? :showDay=bool? :showHour=bool? :showMinute=bool? :showSecond=bool? :showMillis=bool? => affix* This element specifies the way to display a time duration. Data to be formatted in elapsed time formats is stored as strings in legacy data, in the format 'H:MM:SS.SSS', with additional hour digits as needed for long durations, and must be parsed and reformatted by the reader. The following attribute is required. -- Attribute: baseFormat Specifies whether a day and a time are both to be displayed, or just one of them. The remaining attributes specify exactly how to display the elapsed time. For 'baseFormat' of 'time', PSPP converts this element to print format type 'DTIME'; otherwise, if 'showHour' is true, to 'TIME'; otherwise, to 'MTIME'. The chosen width is the minimum for the chosen type, adding 3 if 'showSecond' is true, adding 4 more if 'showMillis' is also true. Decimals are 0 by default, or 3 if 'showMillis' is true. D.4.10.5 The 'format' Element ............................. format :baseFormat[f_base_format]=(date | time | dateTime | elapsedTime)? :errorCharacter? :separatorChars? :mdyOrder=(dayMonthYear | monthDayYear | yearMonthDay)? :showYear=bool? :showQuarter=bool? :quarterPrefix? :quarterSuffix? :yearAbbreviation=bool? :showMonth=bool? :monthFormat=(long | short | number | paddedNumber)? :dayPadding=bool? :dayOfMonthPadding=bool? :showWeek=bool? :weekPadding=bool? :weekSuffix? :showDayOfWeek=bool? :dayOfWeekAbbreviation=bool? :hourPadding=bool? :minutePadding=bool? :secondPadding=bool? :showDay=bool? :showHour=bool? :showMinute=bool? :showSecond=bool? :showMillis=bool? :dayType=(month | year)? :hourFormat=(AMPM | AS_24 | AS_12)? :minimumIntegerDigits=int? :maximumFractionDigits=int? :minimumFractionDigits=int? :useGrouping=bool? :scientific=(onlyForSmall | whenNeeded | true | false)? :small=real? :prefix? :suffix? :tryStringsAsNumbers=bool? :negativesOutside=bool? => relabel* affix* This element is the union of all of the more-specific format elements. It is interpreted in the same way as one of those format elements, using 'baseFormat' to determine which kind of format to use. There are a few attributes not present in the more specific formats: -- Attribute: tryStringsAsNumbers When this is 'true', it is supposed to indicate that string values should be parsed as numbers and then displayed according to numeric formatting rules. However, in the corpus it is always 'false'. -- Attribute: negativesOutside If true, the negative sign should be shown before the prefix; if false, it should be shown after. D.4.10.6 The 'affix' Element ............................ affix :definesReference=int :position=(subscript | superscript) :suffix=bool :value => EMPTY This defines a suffix (or, theoretically, a prefix) for a formatted value. It is used to insert a reference to a footnote. It has the following attributes: -- Attribute: definesReference This specifies the footnote number as a natural number: 1 for the first footnote, 2 for the second, and so on. -- Attribute: position Position for the footnote label. Always 'superscript'. -- Attribute: suffix Whether the affix is a suffix ('true') or a prefix ('false'). Always 'true'. -- Attribute: value The text of the suffix or prefix. Typically a letter, e.g. 'a' for footnote 1, 'b' for footnote 2, ... The corpus contains other values: '*', '**', and a few that begin with at least one comma: ',b', ',c', ',,b', and ',,c'. D.4.11 The 'interval' Element ----------------------------- interval :style=ref style => labeling footnotes? labeling :style=ref style? :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) => (formatting | format | footnotes)* formatting :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) => formatMapping* formatMapping :from=int => format? footnotes :superscript=bool? :variable=ref (sourceVariable | derivedVariable) => footnoteMapping* footnoteMapping :definesReference=int :from=int :to => EMPTY The 'interval' element and its descendants determine the basic formatting and labeling for the table's cells. These basic styles are overridden by more specific styles set using 'setCellProperties' (*note SPV Detail setCellProperties Element::). The 'style' attribute of 'interval' itself may be ignored. The 'labeling' element may have a single 'formatting' child. If present, its 'variable' attribute refers to a variable whose values are format specifiers as numbers, e.g. value 0x050802 for F8.2. However, the numbers are not actually interpreted that way. Instead, each number actually present in the variable's data is mapped by a 'formatMapping' child of 'formatting' to a 'format' that specifies how to display it. The 'labeling' element may also have a 'footnotes' child element. The 'variable' attribute of this element refers to a variable whose values are comma-delimited strings that list the 1-based indexes of footnote references. (Cells without any footnote references are numeric 0 instead of strings.) Each 'footnoteMapping' child of the 'footnotes' element defines the footnote marker to be its 'to' attribute text for the footnote whose 1-based index is given in its 'definesReference' attribute. D.4.12 The 'style' Element -------------------------- style :color=color? :color2=color? :labelAngle=real? :border-bottom=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)? :border-top=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)? :border-left=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)? :border-right=(solid | thick | thin | double | none)? :border-bottom-color? :border-top-color? :border-left-color? :border-right-color? :font-family? :font-size? :font-weight=(regular | bold)? :font-style=(regular | italic)? :font-underline=(none | underline)? :margin-bottom=dimension? :margin-left=dimension? :margin-right=dimension? :margin-top=dimension? :textAlignment=(left | right | center | decimal | mixed)? :labelLocationHorizontal=(positive | negative | center)? :labelLocationVertical=(positive | negative | center)? :decimal-offset=dimension? :size? :width? :visible=bool? => EMPTY A 'style' element has an effect only when it is referenced by another element to set some aspect of the table's style. Most of the attributes are self-explanatory. The rest are described below. -- Attribute: color In some cases, the text color; in others, the background color. -- Attribute: color2 Not used. -- Attribute: labelAngle Normally 0. The value -90 causes inner column or outer row labels to be rotated vertically. -- Attribute: labelLocationHorizontal Not used. -- Attribute: labelLocationVertical The value 'positive' corresponds to vertically aligning text to the top of a cell, 'negative' to the bottom, 'center' to the middle. D.4.13 The 'labelFrame' Element ------------------------------- labelFrame :style=ref style => location+ label? paragraph? paragraph :hangingIndent=dimension? => EMPTY A 'labelFrame' element specifies content and style for some aspect of a table. Only 'labelFrame' elements that have a 'label' child are important. The 'purpose' attribute in the 'label' determines what the 'labelFrame' affects: 'title' The table's title and its style. 'subTitle' The table's caption and its style. 'footnote' The table's footnotes and the style for the footer area. 'layer' The style for the layer area. 'subSubTitle' Ignored. The 'style' attribute references the style to use for the area. The 'label', if present, specifies the text to put into the title or caption or footnotes. For footnotes, the label has two 'text' children for every footnote, each of which has a 'usesReference' attribute identifying the 1-based index of a footnote. The first, third, fifth, ... 'text' child specifies the content for a footnote; the second, fourth, sixth, ... child specifies the marker. Content tends to end in a new-line, which the reader may wish to trim; similarly, markers tend to end in '.'. The 'paragraph', if present, may be ignored, since it is always empty. D.4.14 Legacy Properties ------------------------ The detail XML format has features for styling most of the aspects of a table. It also inherits defaults for many aspects from structure XML, which has the following 'tableProperties' element: tableProperties :name? => generalProperties footnoteProperties cellFormatProperties borderProperties printingProperties generalProperties :hideEmptyRows=bool? :maximumColumnWidth=dimension? :maximumRowWidth=dimension? :minimumColumnWidth=dimension? :minimumRowWidth=dimension? :rowDimensionLabels=(inCorner | nested)? => EMPTY footnoteProperties :markerPosition=(superscript | subscript)? :numberFormat=(alphabetic | numeric)? => EMPTY cellFormatProperties => cell_style+ any[cell_style] :alternatingColor=color? :alternatingTextColor=color? => style style :color=color? :color2=color? :font-family? :font-size? :font-style=(regular | italic)? :font-weight=(regular | bold)? :font-underline=(none | underline)? :labelLocationVertical=(positive | negative | center)? :margin-bottom=dimension? :margin-left=dimension? :margin-right=dimension? :margin-top=dimension? :textAlignment=(left | right | center | decimal | mixed)? :decimal-offset=dimension? => EMPTY borderProperties => border_style+ any[border_style] :borderStyleType=(none | solid | dashed | thick | thin | double)? :color=color? => EMPTY printingProperties :printAllLayers=bool? :rescaleLongTableToFitPage=bool? :rescaleWideTableToFitPage=bool? :windowOrphanLines=int? :continuationText? :continuationTextAtBottom=bool? :continuationTextAtTop=bool? :printEachLayerOnSeparatePage=bool? => EMPTY The 'name' attribute appears only in standalone '.stt' files (*note SPSS TableLook STT Format::). Appendix E SPSS TableLook File Formats ************************************** SPSS has a concept called a TableLook to control the styling of pivot tables in output. SPSS 15 and earlier used '.tlo' files with a special binary format to save TableLooks to disk; SPSS 16 and later use '.stt' files in an XML format to save them. Both formats expose roughly the same features, although the older '.tlo' format does have some features that '.stt' does not. This appendix describes both formats. E.1 The '.stt' Format ===================== The '.stt' file format is an XML file that contains a subset of the SPV structure member format (*note SPV Structure Member Format::). Its root element is a 'tableProperties' element (*note SPV Detail Legacy Properties::). E.2 The '.tlo' Format ===================== A '.tlo' file has a custom binary format. This section describes it using the syntax used previously for SPV binary members (*note SPV Light Detail Member Format::). There is one new convention: TLO files express colors as 'int32' values in which the low 8 bits are the red component, the next 8 bits are green, and next 8 bits are blue, and the high bits are zeros. TLO files support various features that SPV files do not. PSPP implements the SPV feature set, so it mostly ignores the added TLO features. The details of this mapping are explained below. At the top level, a TLO file consists of five sections. The first four are always present and the last one is optional: TableLook => PTTableLook[tl] PVSeparatorStyle[ss] PVCellStyle[cs] PVTextStyle[ts] V2Styles? Each section is described below. E.2.1 'PTTableLook' ------------------- PTTableLook => ff ff 00 00 "PTTableLook" (00|02)[version] int16[flags] 00 00 bool[nested-row-labels] 00 bool[footnote-marker-subscripts] 00 i54 i18 In PTTableLook, 'version' is 00 or 02. The only difference is that version 00 lacks V2Styles (*note V2Styles in SPSS TLO Files::) and that version 02 includes it. Both TLO versions are seen in the wild. 'flags' is a bit-mapped field. Its bits have the following meanings: 0x2 If set to 1, hide empty rows and columns; otherwise, show them. 0x4 If set to 1, use numeric footnote markers; otherwise, use alphabetic footnote markers. 0x8 If set to 1, print all layers; otherwise, print only the current layer. 0x10 If set to 1, scale the table to fit the page width; otherwise, break it horizontally if necessary. 0x20 If set to 1, scale the table to fit the page length; otherwise, break it vertically if necessary. 0x40 If set to 1, print each layer on a separate page (only if all layers are being printed); otherwise, paginate layers naturally. 0x80 If set to 1, print a continuation string at the top of a table that is split between pages. 0x100 If set to 1, print a continuation string at the bottom of a table that is split between pages. When 'nested-row-labels' is 1, row dimension labels appear nested; otherwise, they are put into the upper-left corner of the pivot table. When 'footnote-marker-subscripts' is 1, footnote markers are shown as subscripts; otherwise, they are shown as superscripts. E.2.2 'PVSeparatorStyle' ------------------------ PVSeparatorStyle => ff ff 00 00 "PVSeparatorStyle" 00 Separator*4[sep1] 03 80 00 Separator*4[sep2] Separator => case( 00 00 | 01 00 int32[color] int16[style] int16[width] )[type] PVSeparatorStyle contains eight Separators, in two groups. Each Separator represents a border between pivot table elements. TLO and SPV files have the same concepts for borders. *Note SPV Light Member Borders::, for the treatment of borders in SPV files. A Separator's 'type' is 00 if the border is not drawn, 01 otherwise. For a border that is drawn, 'color' is the color that it is drawn in. 'style' and 'width' have the following meanings: 'style' = 0 and 0 ≤ 'width' ≤ 3 An increasingly thick single line. SPV files only have three line thicknesses. PSPP treats 'width' 0 as a thin line, 'width' 1 as a solid (normal width) line, and 'width' 2 or 3 as a thick line. 'style' = 1 and 0 ≤ 'width' ≤ 1 A doubled line, composed of normal-width (0) or thick (1) lines. SPV files only have "normal" width double lines, so PSPP maps both variants the same way. 'style' = 2 A dashed line. The first group, 'sep1', represents the following borders within the pivot table, by index: 0. Horizontal dimension rows 1. Vertical dimension rows 2. Horizontal category rows 3. Vertical category rows The second group, 'sep2', represents the following borders within the pivot table, by index: 0. Horizontal dimension columns 1. Vertical dimension columns 2. Horizontal category columns 3. Vertical category columns E.2.3 'PVCellStyle' and 'PVTextStyle' ------------------------------------- PVCellStyle => ff ff 00 00 "PVCellStyle" AreaColor[title-color] PVTextStyle => ff ff 00 00 "PVTextStyle" 00 AreaStyle[title-style] MostAreas*7[most-areas] MostAreas => 06 80 AreaColor[color] 08 80 00 AreaStyle[style] These sections hold the styling and coloring for each of the 8 areas in a pivot table. They are conceptually similar to the area style information in SPV light members (*note SPV Light Member Areas::). The styling and coloring for the title area is split between PVCellStyle and PVTextStyle: the former holds 'title-color', the latter holds 'title-style'. The style for the remaining 7 areas is in 'most-areas' in PVTextStyle, in the following order: layers, corner, row labels, column labels, data, caption, and footer. AreaColor => 00 01 00 int32[color10] int32[color0] byte[shading] 00 AreaColor represents the background color of an area. TLO files, but not SPV files, describe backgrounds that are a shaded combination of two colors: 'shading' of 0 is pure 'color0', 'shading' of 10 is pure 'color10', and value in between mix pixels of the two different colors in linear degree. PSPP does not implement shading, so for 1 ≤ 'shading' ≤ 9 it interpolates RGB values between colors to arrive at an intermediate shade. AreaStyle => int16[valign] int16[halign] int16[decimal-offset] int16[left-margin] int16[right-margin] int16[top-margin] int16[bottom-margin] 00 00 01 00 int32[font-size] int16[stretch] 00*2 int32[rotation-angle] 00*4 int16[weight] 00*2 bool[italic] bool[underline] bool[strikethrough] int32[rtf-charset-number] byte[x] byte[font-name-len] byte*[font-name-len][font-name] int32[text-color] 00*2 AreaStyle represents style properties of an area. 'valign' is 0 for top alignment, 1 for bottom alginment, 2 for center. 'halign' is 0 for left alignment, 1 for right, 2 for center, 3 for mixed, 4 for decimal. For decimal alignment, 'decimal-offset' is the offset of the decimal point in 20ths of a point. 'left-margin', 'right-margin', 'top-margin', and 'bottom-margin' are also measured in 20ths of a point. 'font-size' is negative 96ths of an inch, e.g. 9 point is -12 or 0xfffffff3. 'stretch' has something to do with font size or stretch. The usual value is 01 and values larger than that do weird things. A reader can safely ignore it. 'rotation-angle' is a font rotation angle. A reader can safely ignore it. 'weight' is 400 for a normal-weight font, 700 indicates bold. (This is a Windows API convention.) 'italic' and 'underline' have the obvious meanings. So does 'strikethrough', which PSPP ignores. 'rtf-charset-number' is a character set number from RTF. A reader can safely ignore it. The meaning of 'x' is unknown. Values 12, 22, 31, and 32 have been observed. The 'font-name' is the name of a font, such as 'Arial'. Only US-ASCII characters have been observed here. 'text-color' is the color of the text itself. E.2.4 'V2Styles' ---------------- V2Styles => Separator*11[sep3] byte[continuation-len] byte*[continuation-len][continuation] int32[min-col-width] int32[max-col-width] int32[min-row-height] int32[max-row-height] This final, optional, part of the TLO file format contains some additional style information. It begins with 'sep3', which represents the following borders within the pivot table, by index: 0 Title. 1...4 Left, right, top, and bottom inner frame. 5...8 Left, right, top, and bottom outer frame. 9, 10 Left and top of data area. When V2Styles is absent, the inner frame borders default to a solid line and the others listed above to no line. 'continuation' is the string that goes at the top or bottom of a table broken across pages. When V2Styles is absent, the default is '(Cont.)'. 'min-col-width' is the minimum width that a column will be assigned automatically. 'max-col-width' is the maximum width that a column will be assigned to accommodate a long column label. 'min-row-width' and 'max-row-width' are a similar range for the width of row labels. All of these measurements are in points. When V2Styles is absent, the defaults are 36 for 'min-col-width' and 'min-row-height', 72 for 'max-col-width', and 120 for 'max-row-height'. F Encrypted File Wrappers ************************* SPSS 21 and later can package multiple kinds of files inside an encrypted wrapper. The wrapper has a common format, regardless of the kind of the file that it contains. Warning: The SPSS encryption wrapper is poorly designed. When the password is unknown, it is much cheaper and faster to decrypt a file encrypted this way than if a well designed alternative were used. If you must use this format, use a 10-byte randomly generated password. F.1 Common Wrapper Format ========================= An encrypted file wrapper begins with the following 36-byte header, where xxx identifies the type of file encapsulated: 'SAV' for a system file, 'SPS' for a syntax file, 'SPV' for a viewer file. PSPP code for identifying these files just checks for the 'ENCRYPTED' keyword at offset 8, but the other bytes are also fixed in practice: 0000 1c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 45 4e 43 52 59 50 54 45 |........ENCRYPTE| 0010 44 xx xx xx 15 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |Dxxx............| 0020 00 00 00 00 |....| Following the fixed header is essentially the regular contents of the encapsulated file in its usual format, with each 16-byte block encrypted with AES-256 in ECB mode. To make the plaintext an even multiple of 16 bytes in length, the encryption process appends PKCS #7 padding, as specified in RFC 5652 section 6.3. Padding appends 1 to 16 bytes to the plaintext, in which each byte of padding is the number of padding bytes added. If the plaintext is, for example, 2 bytes short of a multiple of 16, the padding is 2 bytes with value 02; if the plaintext is a multiple of 16 bytes in length, the padding is 16 bytes with value 0x10. The AES-256 key is derived from a password in the following way: 1. Start from the literal password typed by the user. Truncate it to at most 10 bytes, then append as many null bytes as necessary until there are exactly 32 bytes. Call this PASSWORD. 2. Let CONSTANT be the following 73-byte constant: 0000 00 00 00 01 35 27 13 cc 53 a7 78 89 87 53 22 11 0010 d6 5b 31 58 dc fe 2e 7e 94 da 2f 00 cc 15 71 80 0020 0a 6c 63 53 00 38 c3 38 ac 22 f3 63 62 0e ce 85 0030 3f b8 07 4c 4e 2b 77 c7 21 f5 1a 80 1d 67 fb e1 0040 e1 83 07 d8 0d 00 00 01 00 3. Compute CMAC-AES-256(PASSWORD, CONSTANT). Call the 16-byte result CMAC. 4. The 32-byte AES-256 key is CMAC || CMAC, that is, CMAC repeated twice. Example ------- Consider the password 'pspp'. PASSWORD is: 0000 70 73 70 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |pspp............| 0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| CMAC is: 0000 3e da 09 8e 66 04 d4 fd f9 63 0c 2c a8 6f b0 45 The AES-256 key is: 0000 3e da 09 8e 66 04 d4 fd f9 63 0c 2c a8 6f b0 45 0010 3e da 09 8e 66 04 d4 fd f9 63 0c 2c a8 6f b0 45 F.1.1 Checking Passwords ------------------------ A program reading an encrypted file may wish to verify that the password it was given is the correct one. One way is to verify that the PKCS #7 padding at the end of the file is well formed. However, any plaintext that ends in byte 01 is well formed PKCS #7, meaning that about 1 in 256 keys will falsely pass this test. This might be acceptable for interactive use, but the false positive rate is too high for a brute-force search of the password space. A better test requires some knowledge of the file format being wrapped, to obtain a "magic number" for the beginning of the file. * The plaintext of system files begins with '$FL2@(#)' or '$FL3@(#)'. * Before encryption, a syntax file is prefixed with a line at the beginning of the form '* Encoding: ENCODING.', where ENCODING is the encoding used for the rest of the file, e.g. 'windows-1252'. Thus, '* Encoding' may be used as a magic number for system files. * The plaintext of viewer files begins with 50 4b 03 04 14 00 08 (50 4b is 'PK'). F.2 Password Encoding ===================== SPSS also supports what it calls "encrypted passwords." These are not encrypted. They are encoded with a simple, fixed scheme. An encoded password is always a multiple of 2 characters long, and never longer than 20 characters. The characters in an encoded password are always in the graphic ASCII range 33 through 126. Each successive pair of characters in the password encodes a single byte in the plaintext password. Use the following algorithm to decode a pair of characters: 1. Let A be the ASCII code of the first character, and B be the ASCII code of the second character. 2. Let AH be the most significant 4 bits of A. Find the line in the table below that has AH on the left side. The right side of the line is a set of possible values for the most significant 4 bits of the decoded byte. 2 => 2367 3 => 0145 47 => 89cd 56 => abef 3. Let BH be the most significant 4 bits of B. Find the line in the second table below that has BH on the left side. The right side of the line is a set of possible values for the most significant 4 bits of the decoded byte. Together with the results of the previous step, only a single possibility is left. 2 => 139b 3 => 028a 47 => 46ce 56 => 57df 4. Let AL be the least significant 4 bits of A. Find the line in the table below that has AL on the left side. The right side of the line is a set of possible values for the least significant 4 bits of the decoded byte. 03cf => 0145 12de => 2367 478b => 89cd 569a => abef 5. Let BL be the least significant 4 bits of B. Find the line in the table below that has BL on the left side. The right side of the line is a set of possible values for the least significant 4 bits of the decoded byte. Together with the results of the previous step, only a single possibility is left. 03cf => 028a 12de => 139b 478b => 46ce 569a => 57df Example ------- Consider the encoded character pair '-|'. A is 0x2d and B is 0x7c, so AH is 2, BH is 7, AL is 0xd, and BL is 0xc. AH means that the most significant four bits of the decoded character is 2, 3, 6, or 7, and BH means that they are 4, 6, 0xc, or 0xe. The single possibility in common is 6, so the most significant four bits are 6. 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