Countries

RIXML 2.5 Element

Required

Container element for one or more individual Country elements.

Container element for one or more individual Country elements..

Schema:RIXML-Common-2_5.xsd:998

Specification Guide

Overview

Countries is a container element that aggregates one or more Country children to express the set of geographical markets associated with an organization's research expertise. It exists to give consumers a structured, machine-readable way to identify publishers with relevant regional coverage.

Usage

Use Countries inside an Expertise block to declare the countries a publisher or organization covers. The container must hold at least one Country child and may hold multiple, allowing a single expertise profile to span several markets. Downstream consumers typically rely on this grouping to filter or route research according to geographical coverage requirements.

Rules

MUSTCountries must contain at least one Country child element.[RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.28]

Relationships

containsCountry — Countries aggregates one or more Country children, each identifying an individual geographical market.
child-ofExpertise — Countries typically appears within Expertise to scope an organization's geographical coverage.

Where It Fits

Canonical Path

Research/Product/Source/Organization/Expertise/Countries

Children

Country

Definition

Type
Namespace	`http://www.rixml.org/2017/9/RIXML`
Min Occurs	1
Max Occurs	1

Attributes

No attributes defined for this element

Children

Country(complex)1..unbounded

requiredSince 2.4

Example

<Countries>
  <Country> ... </Country>
</Countries>

Version History

Unchanged since introduction in RIXML 2.4

Documented in the RIXML 2.4 data dictionary as a container used within Expertise. No version-specific changes are recorded in the gathered sources.