Sheri - A DDI Questionnaire Validator <style type="text/css"> #main { margin-right: 230px; } #results { border:2px solid sienna; height:70%; overflow: auto; padding:1%; background-color: gray; } #return { padding:0.5%; background-color: black; min-height:95%; color:green; font-weight:bold; } #caret { /* Yeah thats right... blink. But not for chrome users :( */ } p {margin-left:20px;} body {background-image:url("images/back40.gif");} </style> <body onload="setup()"> <div style="float:right;max-width:225px"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/oHJhJ.jpg" alt="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" /> <div> This is one part of a larger set of: <br> <li><a>DDI Tools</a> <li><a>Ramona - Demo of DDI for CAI</a> </div> </div> <div id=main> <h1>Sheri - A DDI Questionnaire Validator</h1> <form method="POST" action="./SheriValidator.cgi" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <label for="file">Upload a DDI XML File:</label> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> </br> <label for=inst_id>Instrument name to check (leave blank and I'll just take the first one I find):</label> <input name=inst_id /> <br> <button name=validate type=submit>Validate!</button> <a href="#help">Help?</a> </form> <h2>Results of validation</h2> <div id="results"> <pre id=return> <span id=return_text>Waiting...</span> </pre> </div> <div id=help> <h2>Help and About</h2> <br/><b>What is this for? - This is a tool to help people understand the de-referenced structure of their DDI instruments. It also examines a DDI questionnaire for missing references and possible endless loops of sequences. Check <a href="http://www.kidstrythisathome.com/2011/05/questionnaire-design-with-ddi-part-1-will-this-survey-ever-end">my blog post on self-referencial ddi questionnaires</a> and that should answer your question.</b> <br/><b>What is InstrumentML? - </b> InstrumentML is an XML dialect I made for a DDI questionnaire tool designed as an experiment in testing the capability of DDI for web forms. Instrument ML, is basicallly the identifying parts of DDI Instruments, Sequences, Loops, etc to create a structured, hierarchical view of an Instrument, rather than the the flat referencing (albeit much more reusable) format in native DDI. <br/><b>Will you be making a nice AJAX powered version of this? - </b> No. Its too hard and I really aren't that good at Javascript. Or english. <br/><b>Why Sheri? - </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shari_Lewis">Shari Lewis</a> was the ventriloquist and friend of Lamb Chop, the cute puppet sheep who sang the infectious song "This is the song that never ends". After too many times of testing Ramona the variant "This is the <i>form</i> that never ends" got stuck in my head. The misspelling is because of my aforementioned failure of english. <br/><b>The DDI element X isn't supported? - </b> If X is an element is of type <i>ControlConstructType</i> and is a child of <a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/3.1/XMLSchema/FieldLevelDocumentation/datacollection_xsd/elements/ControlConstructScheme.html">ControlConstructScheme</a> then thats my bad. Check my contact details and send me an email with the issue. If X isn't of those types, then it really isn't covered by this tool, but perhaps another tool could be created to help cover that. In that case, send me an email through the DDI-Users list to see if anyone else is having the same problem and I'll work on it. <br/><b>I need more help with DDI, do you have any good tutorials? - </b> Yes. At the moment, the only one is the blog post above, but there will be more going up on my site at <a href="http://www.kidstrythisathome.com/ddi-tutorials"</a>http://www.kidstrythisathome.com/ddi-tutorials</a> <br/><b>I have other questions that I think could go here, how to I contact you? - </b>Shift your eyes a few lines lower and you can see my contact details :P <br/><b> - </b> </div> <pre> Contact me: email: theodore.therone@gmail.com twitter: @legostormtroopr </pre>