How to edit Define.xml & Define.xml for Analysis datasets

m Maria

on June 24, 2010

Hi,

I am somewhat new to creating a define document in XML. In order to edit the document, I can open in it in Notepad, which removes the paragraph formatting. Is there any other way to edit the document? I would love to be able to makes changes to the file with the style sheet (since it looks like a regular Word document). Is this possible?

The other question I was thinking about is how do you create a define document for analysis datasets? From what I have seen in the one of the CDISC documents, there is an additional table required for Analysis Results Metadata (TLGs). Are there any plans to create this in a define doc for analysis datasets?

Thanks,

Maria

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j Jozef

on July 1, 2010

You can edit the define.xml

You can edit the define.xml using any free or commercial XML editor.
This also allows you to do validation against the xml schema during editing.

A list of good editors was published some months ago by the "CDISC XML Tech Governance Team", and can be found at: http://www.cdisc.org/define-xml and look for "XML Schema Validation for define.xml white paper".

Making changes to the stylesheet however is already more difficult, especially for an XML starter: this is specialist work.

Best,

Jozef Aerts - XML4Pharma