Export Changes as XML: Field Descriptions and XSD Schema

Field Descriptions

The following fields appear in the ‘Changes XML’ file:

XML Attribute Name	Description
KeepPrimaryKey	The primary key of the record to keep (the Master record)
DeletePrimaryKey	The primary key of the record to delete (the Slave record)
LikenessPercent	The degree of likeness the examination process calculated between the records.
IsAutoMerge	True if the records were automatically merged as part of the examination process.  False if the merge was initiated manually by the user in the Processing Tool.
ExportBatchDate	The date and time the change was exported as part of a batch (batches are be grouped together based on this value).  This isn’t shown if batch exports are not being used.
FieldName	The source data field name the edit applies to.  This is the field name as imported from the original data.
FriendlyFieldName	The user-specified field name of the field the edit applies to, as set in the setup wizard.  See the ‘Useful Tip’ on this page for more details on how to set a friendly field name.
OriginalValue	The original value of the field before it was updated in the merge or edit.  This can be used to make an optimistic concurrency check on the live database before making an update to that field (for example checking that the value hasn’t been updated since the data was exported to the Duplicate Record Remover tool for processing).
UpdateToValue	The new value the field needs to be set to.
RecordPrimaryKey	The primary key of the record being updated.

 

XSD schema

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <xs:element name="DuplicateRecordRemover">

    <xs:complexType>

      <xs:sequence>

        <xs:element name="Changes">

          <xs:complexType>

            <xs:sequence>

              <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Merge">

                <xs:complexType>

                  <xs:sequence minOccurs="0">

                    <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Edit">

                      <xs:complexType>

                        <xs:attribute name="FieldName" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                        <xs:attribute name="FriendlyFieldName" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                        <xs:attribute name="OriginalValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                        <xs:attribute name="UpdateToValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                        <xs:attribute name="RecordPrimaryKey" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                      </xs:complexType>

                    </xs:element>

                  </xs:sequence>

                  <xs:attribute name="KeepPrimaryKey" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="DeletePrimaryKey" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="LikenessPercent" type="xs:decimal" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="IsAutoMerge" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="ExportBatchDate" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                </xs:complexType>

              </xs:element>

              <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Edit">

                <xs:complexType>

                  <xs:attribute name="FieldName" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="FriendlyFieldName" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="OriginalValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="UpdateToValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="RecordPrimaryKey" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                  <xs:attribute name="ExportBatchDate" type="xs:string" use="required" />

                </xs:complexType>

              </xs:element>

            </xs:sequence>

          </xs:complexType>

        </xs:element>

      </xs:sequence>

    </xs:complexType>

  </xs:element>

</xs:schema>

 

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