Country codes (ISO 3166)

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

I have just completed a "clean room" reconstruction of the ISO
3166 country code list using the source approved by ISO.  In its
statement of 30 September 2003 at

   http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2003/Ref871.html

ISO says:

   ISO encourages such developments by making the two-letter
   country codes contained in ISO 3166 available free of charge on
   ISO's Web site, along with a great deal of regularly updated
   information related to the codes and their use. The ISO Web
   site also has hyperlinks to the sites of the British Standards
   Institution (BSI) and the US Library of Congress - where the
   currency and language codes are, respectively, publicly
   available.

The ISO 3166 link referred to in the passage above is 

   http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html

I downloaded the file 

   http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1-semic.txt

from ISO, extracted the country codes contained therein,
alphabetized them, and then put the codes into the schema format
defined by G. Ken Holman for the "raw" input to his codelist
schema transformation.

Attached is a (base-64 encoded) file named iso3166.xsd containing
the result of this work.  The incremental intellectual property
invested in the creation of this file is protected as a work in
progress of the OASIS UBL Technical Committee.

Note that I have not yet installed Ken's conversion apparatus or
an XML validator for this revision cycle and therefore cannot
guarantee that the xsd file is syntactically correct at this
point.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC

iso3166.xsd