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   Community Member

   Yes, they are not in order nor is the list complete. You might refer to the ACS 5 year summary file documentation available www.census.gov/acs. The list in the tech docn and related xls table shells are not sorted either.

   9 months ago

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   christian.c.borillo

   I'm a novice at working with xml, but can't you use an XSLT transformation? There's a sort feature in it, e.g (adapted from WROX "Professional XSL", pg 07):

   [xsl:template match="yadda"]

   [xsl:sort select="Sort_on_field_1"/]

   [xsl:sort select="Sort_on_field_2"/]

   [/xsl:template]

   //Note: I'm substituting brackets for the carets because posting using HTML tags is not allowed

   If you're using Java or C# you can serialize your xml dataset and your xslt transformation. Once there, I don't know how you apply the serialized xslt to the xml datasource, but that might be an avenue for you to pursue. This should make it easier to find the hard-to-find variable.

   But I wouldn't even go this route. How are you transforming the dataset to XML? Why not sort the dataset before transforming to XML? Because you're going have a performance hit with so much data to do the xslt transforamtion?

   9 months ago

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   gio Idea Submitter

   Thanks everyone for the good suggestions....now that I know that the ACS variables are not limited to those in the XML file, and now that I have figured out the coding scheme I am using the table shells for the ACS data and constructing my variable tree from them...

   9 months ago

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   Lisa W

   The xml file has been updated.

   9 months ago

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