ODS MARKUP Destination

You have many choices for destinations with the ODS MARKUP destination. The HTML destination is probably already familiar. To this you can add MSOFFICE2K, CSV, and EXCELXP. More obscure destinations include, but are not limited to, troff, LaTeX, DocBook, and Pyx.

The key to using ODS to create markup files is to understand what set of markup tags you need to generate. The method by which tagset templates are created for use with ODS is with PROC TEMPLATE. Tagset templates are stored in the SASHELP.TMPLMST template store. You can use PROC TEMPLATE to modify these tagsets or create your own custom tagset. We first describe how to use the ODS MARKUP destination with some tagset templates supplied by SAS.

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