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5 Accompanying this document is a set of sample files. These samples consists of structural metadata, data, reference metadata, and schema files for structured data and reference metadata. There are 4 basic sets of files. The details of each of these sets is described in the sections to follow.
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7 == 13.1 Common Structures ==
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9 Directory Name: common
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11 Description: common structural metadata based on the content oriented guidelines Contents:
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14 |**Name**|(% style="width:828px" %)**Description**
15 |common.xml|(% style="width:828px" %)structural metadata, based on the content oriented guidelines; this is reused by many of the structural metadata files in the sample set
16 |sdmx_common.xsd|(% style="width:828px" %)XML schema file based on the structural metadata in common.xml; this is reused by many structure specific schemas in the sample set
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18 == 13.2 ECB Exchange Rates ==
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20 Directory Name: exr
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22 Description: a set of 3 data structure variations and related data files demonstrating the various ways in which data can be organised
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24 Contents: The contents are divided into 4 directories, each described in the sections to follow:
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26 === 13.2.1 ECB Exchange Rates: Common Metadata ===
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28 Directory Name: common
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30 Description: common structural metadata utilized by each data structure definition Contents:
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33 |**Name**|(% style="width:844px" %)**Description**
34 |common.xml|(% style="width:844px" %)structural metadata; this is reused by the rest of the structural metadata files in the exchange rate sample set
35 |sdmx_common.xsd|(% style="width:844px" %)XML schema file based on the structural metadata in common.xml; this is reused by structure specific schemas in the exchange rate sample set
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37 === 13.2.2 ECB Exchange Rates: No Group ===
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39 Directory Name: ecb_exr_ng
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41 Description: exchange rate structural metadata data and data with no groups defined; all attribute relationships are to specific dimensions Contents:
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43 (% style="width:1039.45px" %)
44 |**Name**|(% style="width:786px" %)**Description**
45 |ecb_exr_ng.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)structural metadata, defining the data structure
46 |ecb_exr_ng_full.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)structural metadata, represents the same structure as ecb_exr_ng.xml, but does not use external referencing to make the file easier to load into tools which cannot resolve local file references
47 |generic/ecb_exr_ng_flat.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the generic format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level
48 |generic/ecb_exr_ng_ts.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the time series-specific generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
49 |generic/ecb_exr_ng_ts_gf.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
50 |generic/ecb_exr_ng_xs.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the generic format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
51 |structured/ecb_exr_ng_flat.xsd|(% style="width:786px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with all dimensions at the observation level
52 |structured/ecb_exr_ng_ts.xsd|(% style="width:786px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with the time dimension at the observation level
53 |structured/ecb_exr_ng_xs.xsd|(% style="width:786px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
54 |structured/ecb_exr_ng_flat.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level
55 |structured/ecb_exr_ng_ts.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
56 |structured/ecb_exr_ng_ts_gf.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
57 |structured/ecb_exr_ng_xs.xml|(% style="width:786px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
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59 === 13.2.3 ECB Exchange Rates: Sibling Group ===
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61 Directory Name: ecb_exr_sg
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63 Description: exchange rate structural metadata data and data with a sibling group defined; only one attribute references the sibling group
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65 Contents:
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67 (% style="width:1044.45px" %)
68 |**Name**|(% style="width:792px" %)**Description**
69 |ecb_exr_sg.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)structural metadata, defining the data structure
70 |ecb_exr_sg_full.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)structural metadata, represents the same structure as ecb_exr_ng.xml, but does not use external referencing to make the file easier to load into tools which cannot resolve local file references
71 |generic/ecb_exr_sg_flat.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the generic format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level
72 |generic/ecb_exr_sg_ts.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the time series-specific generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
73 |generic/ecb_exr_sg_ts_gf.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
74 |generic/ecb_exr_sg_xs.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the generic format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
75 |structured/ecb_exr_sg_flat.xsd|(% style="width:792px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with all dimensions at the observation level
76 |structured/ecb_exr_sg_ts.xsd|(% style="width:792px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with the time dimension at the observation level
77 |structured/ecb_exr_sg_xs.xsd|(% style="width:792px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
78 |structured/ecb_exr_sg_flat.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level
79 |structured/ecb_exr_sg_ts.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
80 |structured/ecb_exr_sg_ts_gf.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
81 |structured/ecb_exr_sg_xs.xml|(% style="width:792px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
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83 === 13.2.4 ECB Exchange Rates: Rate Group ===
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85 Directory Name: ecb_exr_rg
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87 Description: exchange rate structural metadata data and data with a sibling group and rate group defined; only one attribute specifies a relationship with the rate group, but the dimensions from the previous sample now declare the sibling group as an attachment group
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92 |**Name**|(% style="width:804px" %)**Description**
93 |ecb_exr_rg.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)structural metadata, defining the data structure
94 |ecb_exr_rg_full.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)structural metadata, represents the same structure as ecb_exr_ng.xml, but does not use external referencing to make the file easier to load into tools which cannot resolve local file references
95 |generic/ecb_exr_rg_flat.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the generic format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level
96 |generic/ecb_exr_rg_ts.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the time series-specific generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
97 |generic/ecb_exr_rg_ts_gf.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
98 |generic/ecb_exr_rg_xs.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the generic format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
99 |structured/ecb_exr_rg_flat.xsd|(% style="width:804px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with all dimensions at the observation level
100 |structured/ecb_exr_rg_ts.xsd|(% style="width:804px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with the time dimension at the observation level
101 |structured/ecb_exr_rg_xs.xsd|(% style="width:804px" %)structure specific data schema for data structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
102 |structured/ecb_exr_rg_flat.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level
103 |structured/ecb_exr_rg_ts.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
104 |structured/ecb_exr_rg_ts_gf.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level
105 |structured/ecb_exr_rg_xs.xml|(% style="width:804px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level
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107 == 13.3 Eurostat Demography ==
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109 Directory Name: demography
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111 Description: data and reference metadata, with accompanying structural metadata Contents:
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114 |**Name**|(% style="width:868px" %)**Description**
115 |demography.xml|(% style="width:868px" %)structural metadata, defining the data structure for demographic data
116 |demography_xs_ex.xsd|(% style="width:868px" %)structure specific data schema for demography data structured with the demographic measure dimension at the observation level
117 |demography_xs.xml|(% style="width:868px" %)data in the structure specific format, structured with the demographic measure dimension at the observation level
118 |esms.xml|(% style="width:868px" %)structural metadata, defining a much simplified variation of the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure; all of the new features of the metadata structure including the various target objects, the ability to reference multiple possible targets from a report structure and the ability to have more complex structures with repeating attributes, attributes with both sub content and values, and attributes with structured text as it content are included
119 |esms.xsd|(% style="width:868px" %)structure specific metadata schema for the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure
120 |esms_generic.xml|(% style="width:868px" %)sample reference metadata in the generic format, attached to the demography data, based on the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure
121 |esms_structured.xml|(% style="width:868px" %)(((
122 sample reference metadata in the structure
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124 specific format, attached to the
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126 demography data, based on the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure
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128 |xhtml|(% style="width:868px" %)XML schema files for XHTML - included for reference from the structure specific metadata schema