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BS EN ISO 19160-4:2017:2018 Edition

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Addressing – International postal address components and template language

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BSI 2018 72
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This document defines key terms for postal addressing, postal address components and constraints on their use.

Specifically, this document defines postal address components organized into three hierarchical levels:

  • elements, such as organization name or postcode, which have well-defined conceptual meaning and are not themselves made up of subordinate components, though they may be sub-divided for technical purposes;

  • constructs, such as organization identification, which group elements into units form a logical portion of a postal address;

  • segments, such as addressee specification, which group-related postal address constructs and/or postal address elements into units with a specific defined function.

This document also specifies a mechanism for creation of sub-elements, which correspond to either sub-divisions of element content, such as door type or door indicator or to multiple occurrences and locations of elements in an address, such as levels of administrative regions.

This document does not specify the length of any component nor the value range of any component.

Moreover, this document defines the codes to identify elements and sub-elements.

Further, this document specifies postal address rendering rules. This includes identification and ordering of output lines in a rendered address, conditions for selection of candidate lines, the order and concatenation of postal address components, required and optional components, parameters to contextualize address for rendering and the formatting of the components, subject to constraints on the space available for that task. Postal address rendering rules are represented in this document as a postal address template.

Finally, this document specifies language suitable for computer processing to formally express postal address templates.

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PDF Pages PDF Title
2 undefined
4 European foreword
Endorsement notice
7 Foreword
8 Introduction
11 1 Scope
2 Normative references
12 3 Terms and definitions
16 4 Abbreviated terms
5 Conformance
5.1 Composition
5.2 U-code
5.3 Rendering of postal address
5.4 PATDL template
17 6 Postal address components
6.1 General
19 6.2 Postal address segments
20 6.3 Postal address constructs
6.4 Postal address elements
26 6.5 Postal address sub-elements
29 6.6 Requirement for composition
7 Element and sub-element codes
7.1 General
7.2 Requirement for a U-code
30 8 Postal address rendering
8.1 General
32 8.2 Rendering parameters
8.3 Rendition instructions
8.3.1 General
33 8.3.2 Concatenation
8.3.3 Abbreviation
8.3.4 Punctuation
8.4 Requirements for rendering of postal address
34 8.5 Requirement for domain of postal address template
9 Postal address template description language (PATDL)
9.1 General
9.2 PATDL as an XML Schema
9.2.1 General
35 9.2.2 Requirement for encoding of rendering rules
9.2.3 Requirement for data populating PATDL elements
9.3 PATDL elements
9.3.1 General
36 9.3.2 templateIdentifier
37 9.3.3 userPreferences
9.3.4 triggerConditions
39 9.3.5 lineData
41 9.3.6 combineData
43 Annex A (normative) Abstract test suites
45 Annex B (informative) Postal address profile of ISO 19160-1
52 Annex C (informative) Mapping conventions
61 Annex D (informative) Template design patterns
65 Annex E (informative) PATDL features
68 Annex F (informative) Example of PATDL template
71 Bibliography
BS EN ISO 19160-4:2017
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