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Improving the output capabilities of Stata with Open Document Formatxml Adam Jacobs Dianthus Medical Limited |
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Stata’s 3-fold capabilitiesStatistics Graphics Data management |
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Statistics |
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Graphics |
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Data management |
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But there is a 4th.. |
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Text outputA recent clinical study: 92 pages of raw data listings 124 pages of descriptive data tabulations 3 pages of statistical analysis All from a study in 12 healthy volunteers |
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Stata’s text output |
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Problems with Stata’s text outputNo pagination No formatting (or limited formatting with smcl) Variable labels not always shown No Unicode support No tables of contents etc etc |
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Some examples.. |
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So how did I do it |
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Open Document FormatAn open standard, approved by ISO XML based For a variety of office-type documents Used by the popular open-source office suite OpenOffice.org Here, we are just interested in word-processing documents |
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.odt filesA .odt file is the native file format of OpenOffice.org Writer A zip file Contains various files, the most important of which is content.xml content.xml is simply a plain-text file Stata is good at writing plain-text files! |
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The Stata codeCreates the content.xml file by writing data with appropriate xml tags Added to other files, zipped to .odt file .odt file can be opened directly with Writer |
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Some examples.. |
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Basics of XML<company name=“Dianthus Medical Limited”> <employee role=“speaker”> <firstname>Adam</firstname> <lastname>Jacobs</lastname> </employee> <employee role=“delegate”> <firstname>Flavia</firstname> <lastname>White</lastname> </employee> </company> |
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XML code for start of table<table:table table:style-name="Table42"> <table:table-column table:style-name="TabCol13"/> <table:table-column table:style-name="TabCol9"/> <table:table-column table:style-name="TabCol8"/> <table:table-column table:style-name="TabCol8"/> |
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XML code for table cells<table:table-cell table:style-name="cell1211"> <text:p text:style-name="Table_20_Contents"> Mileage (mpg)</text:p> </table:table-cell> <table:table-cell table:style-name="cell1111"> <text:p text:style-name="Table_20_Contents">N</text:p> </table:table-cell> <table:table-cell table:style-name="cell1111"> <text:p text:style-name= "Table_20_ContentsNumeric"> 52<text:s text:c="3"/></text:p> </table:table-cell> |
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Was this a lot of work123 kB of code 21 ado files 45 Mata functions And not finished yet! |
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