Specification Name: OASIS CIQ TC - extensible Address Language (xAL) Description: Defines the W3C schema for representing addresses Produced by: OASIS Customer Information Quality Technical Committee Version: 3.0 Status: Public Review Dtaf Copyright: 2006, OASIS Last Modified: 05 April 2006 Last Modified by: Ram Kumar NOTE: Do not modify this schema as it will break specifications compatibility Top level address element A group of commonly used attributes for internal reuse If set to true then indicates that the value is an abbreviation or initial. If set to false then the value is definitely not an abbreviation. If omitted then it is not known if the value is an abbreviation or not. A group of commonly used attributes for internal reuse This attribute indicates what level of trust can be given to the parent element. Omit this attribute if the data quality is unknown. If the data quality is known, the value is "Valid, else "InValid" A group of commonly used attributes for internal reuse Free text description of the information type specified by the element. E.g. state and post code details, street details, etc Complex type that defines the structure of an address for reuse Container for free text address elements where address elements are not parsed Free format address representation. An address can have more than one line. The order of the AddressLine elements must be preserved. Country name Name of the country in whatever form available, e.g. full, abbreviation, common use, etc. Describes the type of name this element contains. For example if the abbreviation for country name is true, then the abbreviation code can be define using this type namely, "ISO 3166" from the enumeration list. Sometimes an area is a part of a country's territory and we can use "Type" to categorise this territory from the actual country name. e.g. Hongkong is part of China Top-level area division in the country, such as state, district, province, island, region, etc. Note that some countries do not have this Locality is a named densiliy populated area such as city, town, village, suburb, large mail user such as army base, airport, etc. Note that not all countries have localities Access route along which buildings are located, such as street, road, channel, crescent, avenue, etc. This also includes canals/banks on which houses/boat houses are located where people live Another thoroughfare that is required to uniquely identify the location, such as an access route, intersection, corner, adjacent, boundary, etc Premises can be a building (e.g. apartment, house) or complex of buildings or even a vacant land (e.g. LOT). Examples of sub-premises are apartments and suites in buildings, shops in malls, etc. A container for a single free text or structured postcode. Note that not all countries have post codes The postcode is formatted according to country-specific rules. Example: SW3 0A8-1A, 600074, 2067 A container for postal-specific delivery identifier for remote communities. Note that not all countries have RuralDelivery Free text or structured description of rural delivery rout. Final mail delivery point where the mail is dropped off for recipients to pick them up directly. E.g. POBox, Private Bag, pigeon hole, free mail numbers, etc. Free text or structured description of a postal delivery point. A delivery point where all mails are delivered and the post man picks of the mails and delivers it to the recipients. Examples are a rural post office where post is delivered, a post office containing post office boxes/personal mail boxes. Note that not all countries have PostOffice Name or number of the post office in free text of structured form. Post town is a name of some locality that serves as a delivery point for a number of smaller communities/areas. Note that an administrative area or locality or post town could be the same for some countries. E.g. Karattoor, Kuppandapalayam (P.O), Athani, Erode, India, where Karattoor is locality, Kuppandapalayam is Post Office, Athani is Post Town and Erode is admin. area. A post town could cover many postal office areas. Note that not all countries have PostTown. Name of the post town Geocoding coordinates of the address. GML (Geography Markup Language from Open GIS Consortium) is an industry standard for geocoding/geospatial data representation Refer to documentation on the version of GML you are using. Start date - time of the validity of address. Inclusive. End date - time of the validity of address. Inclusive. Free text description of the purpose the address is used for. E.g. Postal, residential, business, primary, secondary, etc A unique postal delivery idetifier assigned to the address by local postal authority, e.g. DPID in Australia. Globally unique identifier of the entity. Complex type for internal reuse Full name of administrative area or part of it. eg. MI in USA, NSW in Australia Describes the type of name this element contains. The next level down division of the area. E.g. state / county, province / reservation. Note that not all countries have a subadministrative area Describes the type of name this element contains. Complex type for internal reuse Full name of the locality or part of it Describes the type of name this element contains. A locality that is smaller and is contained within the boundaries of its parent locality. Note that not all localities have sub locality. For example many areas within a locality where each area is a sub locality Describes the type of name this element contains. Complex type for internal reuse Complex type for internal reuse Indicates which part of number or identifier this element contains. Some "numbers" are as simple as 42 and some "numbers" are more like complex aplhanumberic identifiers as Postcodes in UK or Canada, e.g. M2H 2S5. It may be necessary to separate the "number" into sub-elements and indicate what type of information each of them contains. Complex type for internal reuse Full name of premises or part of the name. E.g. Westfield shopping center Describes the type / part of name this element contains. E.g. Flat 15 Complex type for internal reuse Full thoroughfare name or part of it Describes the type / part of name this element contains. E.g. 39 in 39 Baker Street