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Details for the element "fclass" from the THDL Gazetteer DTD Decoded For Dummies

Definition of the Element

<!ELEMENT fclass        (authority?)>
<!ATTLIST fclass        type          CDATA          #REQUIRED
                               term          CDATA                #REQUIRED>

Description of the Element

This must have the name of a thesaurus and a term from that thesaurus, e.g., <fclass term="autonomous region" type="administrative"/> In this example, the thesaurus is administrativeThesaurus.xml (which starts with <root id="administrative">, it's that root id you're matching on) and the term is "autonomous region", which in the thesaurus looks like this:

<term id="autonomous region">
            <text lang="eng">Autonomous Region</text>
            <text lang="chi" type="chi-simplified" resp="CHGIS" authority="THDL">自治區</text>
            <text lang="chi" type="pinyin" resp="CHGIS" authority="THDL">zizhiqu</text>
            <text type="NIMA" resp="THDL">ADM2</text>
            <definition>Def of Autonomous Region</definition>
            
            <bTerm>country</bTerm>
        </term>

Attributes of the Element

The attribute "type" is for declaring the type of feature the individuals belong to, such as "administrative".

The attribute "term" is for declaring "county", "township", "autonomous region", etc for Administrative types of classes, or "river", "mountain", "plain" for Geophysical types, etc.

XML Markup Examples

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