OATTRS and XVERSION Subcommands (SET command)

XVERSION and OATTRS control aspects of OXML and SAV output from the Output Management System (OMS).

  • XVERSION specifies the version of the Output XML schema used to generate OXML output from OMS.
  • OATTRS specifies whether language invariant versions of text attributes are included in OXML and whether variable names in datasets generated from SAV output are in English. When specified, the English value of a text attribute is stored in the text_eng attribute which either replaces the text attribute or is in addition to it. The text_eng attribute allows you to write XPath expressions in a language invariant manner. See the topic XPath Expressions in Multiple Language Environments for more information.

Note: The settings specified by XVERSION and OATTRS apply to subsequent OMS requests.

The specifications for XVERSION are:

DEFAULT. Use the schema associated with the version of IBM® SPSS® Statistics from which the SET command is executed. This is the default.

'version' . A quoted string specifying the output schema version--for example, '1.6'. The version string is the value of the version attribute of the xs:schema element from the associated output schema file. You can specify the version for any of the installed output schema files. Output schema files are located in the IBM SPSS Statistics installation folder.

The specifications for OATTRS are:

OLANG. The text_eng attribute is not included in OXML output and variable names in datasets generated from SAV output are translated into the current output language (when available). This is the default.

ENG. The text attribute is replaced (other than in cell elements) with a text_eng attribute whose value is the English value of the text attribute. Variable names in datasets generated from SAV output will be in English. The value ENG requires that the output schema version in use is 1.6 or higher, which is satisfied by the default setting of the XVERSION subcommand.

BOTH. A text_eng attribute is added to each element (other than a cell element) that has a text attribute. The value of the text_eng attribute is the English value of the text attribute. Variable names in datasets generated from SAV output will be in English. The value BOTH requires that the output schema version in use is 1.6 or higher, which is satisfied by the default setting of the XVERSION subcommand.