Define.xml

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Questions about creating and validating Define.xml

June 7, 2013

Hi all,

 

Does the ELEMENT and ETCD belong to the codelist of the define.xml? I put them into the codelist separately and after running the define.xml cdisc checker I got following error message:

"Value for ELEMENT not found in (ETCD) user-defined codelist"

Don't understand what the ELEMENT should be in ETCD.

Could someone help me out?

 

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May 30, 2013

Shouldn't 3.1.3 for SDTM be a valid version number? 

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April 12, 2013

I have a SAS macro that generates and runs a BAT file to validate define.xml.  It was working fine until a couple of days ago, when it produced an XLS file with the first sheet ("Issue Summary") populated correctly with config file, date, & column headers, but no messages.  Here's the file created by the macro:

@echo off

rem Date-time Friday, April 12, 2013 10:41 AM

rem OpenCDISC version [1.2.1]  Define configuration version [1.0]
rem Output XLS [c:\temp\validateDefineXML_2013_04_12_10_41.xls]

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April 5, 2013

Will there be a check for Attribute Length="0" for variable definitions or VLM? It's a define.xml V1 specification requirement (ODM requirement Length attribute is a positiveInteger on which the define.xml V1 specification is based on).

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April 5, 2013

Will there be a check for IsReferenceData? For example, trial design is usually referential and should be set to IsReferenceData='Yes', whereas most other domains are default IsReferenceData="No".

 

ODM v1.2.0

"If IsReferenceData is Yes, this type of item group can occur only within a ReferenceData element. If IsReferenceData is No, this type of item group can occur only within a ClinicalData element. The default for this attribute is No. ?

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April 3, 2013

HI together,

my question is not really related to OpenCDISC validator, but maybe someone could answer it anyway. How do you interpret the ADaM Model Guideline 2.1. According to my understanding, the analysis-value-metadata which was previously a separate file has now to be integrated into the analysis-variable-metadata. This is no problem, the question is how can a define.xml be generated based on this new analysis-variable-metadata? How do you generate th define.xml for adams. Do you have different files as basis or only one?

 

Thanks for help,

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March 26, 2013

If anyone has any idea why this is happening for one SDTM dataset and all SUPPQUALs ... maybe something to do with define.xml construction? It's not clear why I'm getting this error. In this example, it looks like STUDYID within domain PG is identified in a way consistent with what it is.

(Using Version 1.4)

(see attached pdf document which features:

OpenCDISC screencap

define.xml screencap

SAS Universal Viewer screencap

)

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March 12, 2013

Hello,

I am running the Open CDISC Validation Checks with Command Line. It all runs perfectly fine for Validation Checks but not for Define.xml Generation. For the benefit of others, below are the scripts I am using.

For ADaM Validation:

unzip opencdisc-validator-1.3-bin.zip

java -jar "./opencdisc-validator/lib/validator-cli-1.3.jar" -type=Custom -task=validate -source="../03 ADaM/01 XPT/*.xpt" -config="./config-adam-1.0.xml" -report="../03 ADaM/metadata/OpenCDISCADaM10.xls" report:overwrite="yes"

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February 15, 2013

Hello all,

I'm a little puzzled what information should define.xml contain in the CodeList sections and non-standard values.

#1. The Codelist entry should contain all available values for that CodeList or jjust the ones used into the current dataset?

E.g. CL.C66731.SEX contains the F, M, U, UN values (see "SEND Terminology.xls"). If my dataset contains just M and F values for SEX, the Codelist in define.xml should contain:

a) entries just for M and F?

b) entries for all 4 values from SEND Terminology?

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January 9, 2013

Hi,

Once CDISC has officially has accepted Define.xml 2.0 as the standard, will OpenCDISC be updated accordingly??

See link: http://www.cdisc.org/define-xml 

Thanks,

-Don Hurst

 

 

 

 

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