[georss] proposal for country code in GeoRSS

[Marc]

Hi  Carl

I hope you don't mind that I continue this thread about address encoding.
Do you have an url for the GML address encoding? All I was able to find 
is an old (Feb 2003) 0.1 draft for it.

> of expressing a address content standard as XML, I would look at the 
> OGC OpenLS Core Spec Document as well as the OASIS xal draft. In terms 
> of GML and GeoRSS GML, here is a snippet
>
>  <gml:city>Anytown</gml:city>
>  <gml:state>MD</gml:state>
>  <gml:zipCode>20910</gml:zipCode>
>  <gml:countryCode>USA</gml:countryCode>

The GML address encoding looks a tiny little bit unwieldy, as the 
structure depends on the region of the word for which the address is 
specified.

In the above mentioned draft there is the also an example for a Japanese 
address :
   <gml:town>Anytown</gml:town>
   <gml:city>Anytown</gml:city>
   <gml:prefecture>MD</gml:prefecture>
   <gml:postalCode>20910</gml:postalCode>
The Japanese address has an element 'postalCode' instead of the 
'zipCode' element for a US address, an element 'prefecture' instead of 
'state' and an additional element 'town'.

Rss is supposed to be a simple general purpose format and I prefer the 
ietf draft where a common denominator for all regions and countries is 
used : pc for zipCode or postalCode, A1 for state or prefecture, etc.

Regards

Marc