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If you have any trouble with Parsing or XSLTs please feel free to contact Marissa Kitz (marissa.kitz@yale.edu).

When parsing using XML please be aware of these items:

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• Counts/Version information is shown in the footer
• There are entities that have special meaning in XML and these characters also exist in the data. So when parsing you should un-escape the values.
  • < represents "<";
  • > represents ">";
  • & represents "&";
  • ' represents "'";
  • " represents '"'.
• The encoding is UTF-8
• Full data sets are difficult to extract in SOAPUI or Postman and will often result in crashes
• Null data doesn't return tags in XML. Attributes will only return if these 2 scenarios are true:
  • • • • • • • You have access to see that column
              • There is data for that attribute for that person
• If you do not require all columns in a data set, you do not have to parse all of the data. Only parse what you need.

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