Hello i'd like to find a full specification of LSS format (this is intended for development of a program that can pick up a LS survey structure and render it in a non-web interface).

Can sum1 help me?

Tyyy .

There are no specifications. It's a simple XML file describing the fields and values for a survey.
This information is read when importing LSS files and storing the according values at the correct tables.

So, there's not documentation about the (xml based) format? Damn this will be preety hard for me now .

There is some (outdated) information about the DB layout available here: docs.limesurvey.org/LimeSurvey+1.8+datab...meSurvey+development

Well i checked that file and even when it shows the layout, it doesn't document it ... i have some issues i hope someone can answer me now :$.

I will put DOM Paths of the LSS format i have doubts with:

Where: questions.rows.row and subquestions.rows.row
1) what does same_default node mean?
2) what does question_order node mean?

Where: conditions.rows.row
1) i would like an explanation of the fields.
in method: list of all possible values.
in value: nothing .
perhaps i'm wrong with this, but as far as i know ... i see that cqid is the question under the effect of the condition, while qid es the question to pick the value and check if the condition is met. So ... what's the role of cfieldname node, and what's the role of scenario node?

Where: defaultvalues.rows.row
I woulr like to learn everything about it's fields.

Tyvm, help will be really appreciated :$.

I'll try to answer some of your question, not sure thought if all I write is absolutely correct:

same default: same default value for each language of the survey

question order: those order fields always take care of the order in which elements are shown at the survey or other overviews at the admin backend.

method: might be the comparison operator
value: the value?!

scenarios are used to OR several conditions for the same question

cfieldname: might be the ID of a certain element within a survey to help identifying it when using Javascript based condition evaluation.

method ... i know what it is but i can't guess how do they code DISTINCT and REGEX method.

value: xDDD i said "nothing" bc i mean "there's no doubt there" .

tyvm, you helped me a lot. perhaps, if u're not sure, someone can bring me in this forum a 2nd opinion :$, but AFAIK this seems to be ok and helpful. ty .

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