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1 Purpose and Structure

Last modified by Artur on 2025/07/14 10:19

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Revision History

RevisionDateContents
 April 2011Initial release
1.0April 2013Added section 9 - Transforming between versions of SDMX
2.0July 2020Added section 10 – Validation and Transformation Language – before the Annex 1. 

1.1 Purpose

The intention of this document is to document certain aspects of SDMX that are important to understand and will aid implementation decisions. The explanations here supplement the information documented in the SDMX XML schema and the Information Model. 

1.2 Structure

This document is organized into the following major parts:

A guide to the SDMX Information Model relating to Data Structure Definitions and Data Sets, statement of differences in functionality supported by the different formats and syntaxes for Data Structure Definitions and Data Sets, and best practices for use of SDMX formats, including the representation for time period.

A guide to the SDMX Information Model relating to Metadata Structure Definitions, and Metadata Sets

Other structural artefacts of interest: agencies, concept, role, constraint, partial code list