PhysicalLocationType

Description of the physical location of the value of the object in the data file. Includes information about the data item location and its data type/format if other than the default.

Properties

Name

Type

Description

StorageFormat

CodeValueType

0..1

An explicit definition of the data storage format. This field is necessary in the case of some numeric data formats where the format definition would allow real values, but the values are integer values. Supports the use of an external controlled vocabulary. Use of a controlled vocabulary is strongly recommended.

Delimiter

DelimiterType

0..1

Defines the delimiter used to separate variables in a delimited record. The attribute treatConsecutiveDelimiterAsOne indicates how consecutive delimiters should be handed by the software.

StartPosition

nonNegativeInteger

0..1

Position of the first character of the data item in fixed format file.

ArrayPosition

nonNegativeInteger

0..1

Array number of the data item for delimited files.

EndPosition

nonNegativeInteger

0..1

Position of the last character of the data item in fixed format. Must be specified if a value for Width is not provided.

Width

nonNegativeInteger

0..1

Data item width for fixed format file, maximum width for delimited file. Must be specified if a value for EndPosition is not provided.

DecimalPositions

int

0..1

Number of decimal places for data with an implied decimal separator. Another expression is the decimal scaling factor (SAS). Default: 0.

DecimalSeparator

string

0..1

The character used to separate the integer and the fraction part of a number (if an explicit separator is used in the data). Allowed values are: None (default), Dot, Comma, Other. On the basis of the data definition in DDI documents, data processing tools could compute the necessary precision width on the basis of the format width and the existence of separators. Appropriate data types could be used, i.e. float or double, short or long. The decimal separator definition only makes sense with some XML Schema primitives.

DigitGroupSeparator

string

0..1

The character used to separate groups of digits (if an explicit separator is used in the data). Allowed values are: None (default), Dot, Comma, Other. The decimal separator definition makes only sense with some XML Schema primitives.

LanguageOfData

language

0..n

Language of the data file expressed as a list of language codes.

LocaleOfData

string

0..1

A two-character ISO country code, to supplement the LanguageOfData value.

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