RIXML Documentation

Regions

RIXML 2.5 Element

Required

Container element for one or more individual Region elements.

Container element for one or more individual Region elements..

Schema:RIXML-Common-2_5.xsd:988

Specification Guide

Overview

Regions is a container element that aggregates one or more Region children to express the geographical regions covered by an organization's expertise. It exists to group regional classifications into a single structured set, allowing consumers to discover publishers and contributors with coverage of specific geographies such as Asia-Pacific or EMEA.

Usage

Use Regions within an Expertise block to declare the geographical scope of organizational or contributor expertise. The element acts purely as a wrapper: it must contain at least one Region child, and multiple Region children may be included to express coverage across several geographies. Per-region attributes (such as region type and code) are carried on the child Region elements rather than on Regions itself.

Rules

  • MUSTRegions must contain at least one Region child element.[RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.28]

Relationships

  • containsRegion — Regions aggregates one or more Region children, each describing an individual geographical region of expertise.
  • contained-byExpertise — Regions is typically used inside Expertise to define the regional dimension of an organization's coverage profile.

Where It Fits

Children

Region

Definition

Type
Namespacehttp://www.rixml.org/2017/9/RIXML
Min Occurs1
Max Occurs1

Attributes

No attributes defined for this element

Children

Region(complex)1..unbounded
requiredSince 2.4

Example

<Regions>
  <Region> ... </Region>
</Regions>

Version History

Unchanged since introduction in RIXML 2.4

Documented in the RIXML 2.4 data dictionary as a container for regional expertise classification [RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.28]. The available annotations do not record changes in other versions.