RE: Changes to xNL and xCIL

[Ram Kumar <rkumar@msi.com.au>]

Marcus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Goncalves [mailto:mgoncalves@thevan.com]
> Sent: Friday, 5 October 2001 2:20 PM
> To: 'Ram Kumar '; 'CIQ TC (E-mail) '
> Subject: RE: Changes to xNL and xCIL
>
>
>  :-)  Good idea Ram.  We just need to have a provision that would
> differentiate humans from animals.  Otherwise, how would I
> know that Tiger
> is not "Tiger Woods," but Ram's dog. :-)  Did you provide a
> field for it or
> some other strategy?
>
> Cheers,
>
> MG

It goes something like this:

<xNAL>
  <xNL>
   <NameDetails CustomerType="Other"   // CustomerType could be
Person/Company/Other
                OtherCustomerType="Dog">
      <OtherCustomerName>Tiger</OtherCustomerName>
      <DependencyName  DependencyType="C/O">Ram Kumar</DependencyName>
   </NameDetails>
  </xNL>
<xNAL>

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ram Kumar
> To: CIQ TC (E-mail)
> Sent: 10/4/2001 8:00 PM
> Subject: Changes to xNL and xCIL
>
> Hi all
>
> Recently, I came across a Vetinary doctor who was talking to me about
> e-business and
> standards for representing customer data, etc. I then mentioned about
> xCIL
> and
> xNAL. He was impressed. Then, he raised this interesting
> question. "Our
> customers
> are living species excluding human beings" in our database.
> Do you cater
> for
> such
> type of name and address? GOOD POINT! The data in Vetinary hospitals
> somewhat look like
> this.
>
> TIGER (Dog)
> C/o Ram Kumar
> 23 Albert Avenue
> Chatswood, NSW 2067
> Australia
> Phone:
> Fax:
> Age:
> Date of Birth:
> Sex:
> Physical Characteristics:
> Color, height, weight, marks
>
> A customer is a customer whether it is a dog or human or a company. We
> have
> to cater for all types
> of customer name and address data if we claim that xNAL and xCIL
> represents
> global customer data.
> I therefore, spent about 10 minutes to fix the xNAL and xCIL to cater
> for
> this data set.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ram
>
> Ram Kumar
> MSI
> Level 12, 67 Albert Avenue
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