DRAFT OF VERSION 3 xAL: eXtensible Address Language Date of Creation: 26 March 2002 Copyright(c) 2003, OASIS. All Rights Reserved [http://www.oasis-open.org] Contact: Customer Information Quality Technical Committee, OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq Version: 3.3 Previous Version: V2.0 Common Attributes:Type - If not documented then it means, possible values of Type not limited to: Official, Unique, Abbreviation, OldName, Synonym Code:Address element codes are used by groups like postal groups like ECCMA, ADIS, UN/PROLIST for postal services This group is used to reference another AddressDetails element for a better description of a particular location if needed. E.g. detailed address of an adjasent building that is used as a landmark in the direction. This attribute references AddressDetails element with a matching value of AddressDetailsKey attribute. There is no constraint set up in the schema coz the referenced element can be outside of the instance document. Root element for a list of addresses Type of address. Example: Postal, residential,business, primary, secondary, etc Moved, Living, Investment, Deceased, etc.. Start Date of the validity of address End date of the validity of address Communication, Contact, etc. Key identifier for the element for not reinforced references from other elements. Not required to be unique for the document to be valid, but application may get confused if not unique. Extend this schema adding unique contraint if needed. All direct child elements missing from this AddressDetails element are to be inserted from the referenced AddressDetails elements. If the child element exists it cannot be replaced or modified. Process in the specified order. Once added an element cannot be replaced or modified. Name of the administrative area. eg. MI in USA, NSW in Australia Specification of a sub-administrative area. An example of a sub-administrative areas is a county. There are two places where the name of an administrative area can be specified and in this case, one becomes sub-administrative area. Province or State or County or Kanton, etc Postal or Political - Sometimes locations must be distinguished between postal system, and physical locations as defined by a political system Erode (Dist) where (Dist) is the Indicator Prefix before the number. A in A12 Archer Street A-12 where 12 is number and A is prefix and "-" is the separator Eg.: 23 Archer street or 25/15 Zero Avenue, etc Suffix after the number. A in 12A Archer Street NEAR, ADJACENT TO, etc 12-A where 12 is number and A is suffix and "-" is the separator Name of the locality Number of the locality. Some areas are numbered. Eg. SECTOR 5 in a Suburb as in India or SOI SUKUMVIT 10 as in Thailand Dependent localities are Districts within cities/towns, locality divisions, postal divisions of cities, suburbs, etc. DependentLocality is a recursive element, but no nesting deeper than two exists (Locality-DependentLocality-DependentLocality). "VIA" as in Hill Top VIA Parish where Parish is a locality and Hill Top is a dependent locality Possible values not limited to: City, IndustrialEstate, etc Postal or Political - Sometimes locations must be distinguished between postal system, and physical locations as defined by a political system Erode (Dist) where (Dist) is the Indicator E.g. former name, official, unofficial, common use, etc. Start number details of the premise number range End number details of the premise number range Eg. Odd or even number range Specification of the name of a building. LOBBY, BASEMENT, GROUND FLOOR, etc... Specification of the name of the premise (house, building, park, farm, etc). A premise name is specified when the premise cannot be addressed using a street name plus premise (house) number. Specification for defining the premise number range. Some premises have number as Building C1-C7 Specification of another premise in relation to the parent Premise or Subpremise element. E.g. "adjacent to" The Karori Shopping Mall, where the shopping mall is the relative premise. Specification of a single sub-premise. Examples of sub-premises are apartments and suites. Each sub-premise should be uniquely identifiable. NEAR, ADJACENT TO, etc COMPLEXE in COMPLEX DES JARDINS, A building, station, etc Appears before the thoroughfare name. Ed. Spanish: Avenida Aurora, where Avenida is the leading type / French: Rue Moliere, where Rue is the leading type. Specification of the name of a Thoroughfare (also dependant street name): street name, canal name, etc. A container to represent a range of numbers (from x thru y)for a thoroughfare. eg. 1-2 Albert Av North Baker Street, where North is the pre-direction. Appears after the thoroughfare name. Ed. British: Baker Lane, where Lane is the trailing type. DependentThroughfare is related to a street; occurs in GB, IE, ES, PT Corner of, Intersection of Free format address representation. An address can have more than one line. The order of the AddressLine elements must be preserved. Defines the type of address line. eg. Street, Address Line 1, etc. Address elements may have identifiers from different authorities. E.g. IDs for administrative areas or cities. They can be used instead of or together with names and other details. Defines the type of the ID. E.g. NZ Post ID or any other authority. Container for Address lines This container defines the details of the address. Can define multiple addresses including tracking address history Specification of a country Specification of the name of a country. Examples of administrative areas are provinces counties, special regions (such as "Rijnmond"), etc. Locality is one level lower than adminisstrative area. Eg.: cities, reservations and any other built-up areas. Specification of a thoroughfare. A thoroughfare could be a rd, street, canal, river, etc. Note dependentlocality in a street. For example, in some countries, a large street will have many subdivisions with numbers. Normally the subdivision name is the same as the road name, but with a number to identifiy it. Eg. SOI SUKUMVIT 3, SUKUMVIT RD, BANGKOK Specification of a single premise, for example a house or a building. The premise as a whole has a unique premise (house) number or a premise name. There could be more than one premise in a street referenced in an address. For example a building address near a major shopping centre or raiwlay station A group of elements for geospatial information about the location. A group of elements for postal purposes. A container for address identifiers that uniquely identify this particular address. Specification of a large mail user address. Examples of large mail users are postal companies, companies in France with a cedex number, hospitals and airports with their own post code. Large mail user addresses do not have a street name with premise name or premise number in countries like Netherlands. But they have a POBox and street also in countries like France Specification of the identification number of a large mail user. An example are the Cedex codes in France. CEDEX Code eg. Building 429 in which Building is the Indicator Specification of a firm, company, organization, etc. It can be specified as part of an address that contains a street or a postbox. It is therefore different from a large mail user address, which contains no street. A MailStop is where the the mail is delivered to within a premise/subpremise/firm or a facility. Name of the the Mail Stop. eg. MSP, MS, etc Number of the Mail stop. eg. 123 in MS 123 PostalCode is the container element for either simple or complex (extended) postal codes. Type: Area Code, Postcode, etc. Specification of a postcode. The postcode is formatted according to country-specific rules. Example: SW3 0A8-1A, 600074, 2067 Area Code, Postcode, Delivery code as in NZ, etc A Postal van is specific for a route as in Is`rael, Rural route Name of the Postal Route Number of the Postal Route Postal authorities use specific postal service data to expedient delivery of mail USPS, ECMA, UN/PROLIST, etc Specification of a postbox like mail delivery point. Only a single postbox number can be specified. Examples of postboxes are POBox, free mail numbers, etc. Specification of the number of a postbox Some countries like USA have POBox as 12345-123 "-" is the NumberExtensionSeparator in POBOX:12345-123 Possible values are, not limited to: POBox and Freepost. Specification of a post office. Examples are a rural post office where post is delivered and a post office containing post office boxes. Specification of the name of the post office. This can be a rural postoffice where post is delivered or a post office containing post office boxes. Specification of the number of the postoffice. Common in rural postoffices A post town is not the same as a locality. A post town can encompass a collection of (small) localities. It can also be a subpart of a locality. An actual post town in Norway is "Bergen". Name of the post town GENERAL PO in MIAMI GENERAL PO eg. village, town, suburb, etc Could be a Mobile Postoffice Van as in Isreal