PN.CA Person Name - Flavor Canadian Person Name

Datatype Release_1RealmFlavors
PN.CAFlag CA CA

PN.CA Person Names (BC constraints)

Names are encoded as a sequence of Name Parts such as given name, family name, prefixes and suffixes. Constraints for names are consistent with the requirements set out in the Pan Canadian Data Type Specification for the data type flavor PN.BASIC, with some additional constraints described below.

Registered Attributes and Child Elements

@Attribute / ElementCardinalityDatatype
@useoptionalset_cs
@nullFlavoroptionalcs
delimiter0 .. *ENXP
family0 .. *ENXP
given0 .. *ENXP
prefix0 .. *ENXP
suffix0 .. *ENXP

Core Schematron Rules (CSR)

The following rules are defined in the base core schematrons ( errors, warnings and infos).

Rule ID: PN.CA

Extends Rule(s): PN

LevelConstraintsID
given/@qualifier property is requireddtr1‑1‑PN.CA
at present, the only value for name/given/@qualifier is IN (initial), indicating that the name part is just an initialdtr1‑2‑PN.CA
supported name parts (part types) are family, given, prefix, suffixdtr1‑3‑PN.CA
Exactly one [1..1] name/family part SHALL be presentdtr1‑4‑PN.CA
One or more [1..*] name/given parts SHALL be presentdtr1‑5‑PN.CA
Zero or 1 [0..1] name/prefix name parts may be provideddtr1‑6‑PN.CA
Zero or 1 [0..1] name/suffix name parts may be provideddtr1‑7‑PN.CA
At most seven name parts may be present; since a family name part and at least one given name are mandatory, the cardinality for name parts is [2..7]dtr1‑8‑PN.CA
@use must be drawn from 'L', 'P', 'ASGN', 'C', 'HC'dtr1‑9‑AD.CA
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Contributors: dr Kai U. Heitmann