Base SAS

ODS Tagsets and Automatic Packages

Introduction

When a tagset has a package template, that tagset will cause ODS MARKUP to automatically create a package from its output. The tagset provides the filenames for all the files it should create. When the tagset is used, the body file name becomes the package name and the files created in the package are those specified in the tagset. The filenames are specified with these tagset attributes: Body, Contents, Pages, Frame, Stylesheet, code and data.

Example: Using a package template with a tagset

This example uses the package template in Example: Package Template as an automatic package for a tagset.

  proc template;
     define tagset tagsets.test;
        parent=tagsets.html4;

        /* set the proper mimetypes for the files */
        default_mimetype = "text/html";
        stylesheet_mimetype = "text/css";

        /* specify the package template to use. */
        package=test;

        /* specify the files that are to be created. */
        body = "test.html";
        stylesheet = "test.css";
     end;
  run;

Actually creating a package with this tagset and package template is transparent:

  ods tagsets.test file="test.spk";

  proc gplot data=sashelp.class;
     plot height*weight;
     by name;
  run;
  quit;

  ods tagsets.test close;

The contents of test.spk is nearly the same as before:

  unzip -l test.spk
  Archive:  test.spk
    Length     Date   Time    Name
   --------    ----   ----    ----
         44  08-15-06 20:54   PackageMetaData
       3003  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot18.gif
       2991  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot17.gif
       2995  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot16.gif
       3006  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot15.gif
       2976  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot14.gif
       2998  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot13.gif
       2979  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot12.gif
       2968  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot11.gif
       2983  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot10.gif
       2979  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot9.gif
       2981  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot8.gif
       2986  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot7.gif
       2973  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot6.gif
       2958  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot5.gif
       2992  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot4.gif
       2980  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot3.gif
       2998  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot2.gif
       2965  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot1.gif
       2973  08-15-06 20:54   images/gplot.gif
       5519  08-15-06 20:54   ./t2.html
      22869  08-15-06 20:54   style/t2.css
   --------                   -------
      85116                   23 files

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Base SAS

ODS Tagsets and Automatic Packages

Introduction

Example: Using a package template with a tagset