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WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
SPECIAL UNION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF GOODS AND SERVICES FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE REGISTARTION OF MARKS
(NICE UNION)
Specification of NICE Hierarchy Group Titles File
Date / By / Version / Status / ModificationJune 30, 2011 / Dustin Phillips / 0.1 / Draft / Creation
March 11, 2013 / Sébastien Fievet / 1.0 / PF Approved / QA
February 11, 2015 / Olivier Collioud / 3.10 / Revised / Addition of “edition” and “version” mandatory attributes to the root element.
Contact: WIPO: Patrick FIÉVET ()
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1.Introduction
This document is part of the NICE master files specification. It describes the detailed structure and content of the NICE Classification hierarchy group titles file. The hierarchy group titles file is primarily used as an exchange format aiming at easy data transfer between heterogeneous IT systems. It describes the labels of hierarchy groups in a given language.
2.Brief Description
2.1.Content Overview
The NICE hierarchy group titles file describes the titles associated with a given hierarchy group number in the specified language.
2.2.File Name
The NICE hierarchy group titles file for a specific edition-version and language is namedYYYYMMDD-LL-hierarchy_group_titles-YYYYMMDD.xml whereLL is the language code,the firstYYYYMMDD refers to the date the publication goes into force and the second refers to the date this file was generated. All three values must match the attributes defined inside the file.
3.File Structure
The hierarchy group titles file has a flat structure with a root element named <HierarchyGroupTitles. It has the required “edition”, “version”,"dateInForce", "dateOfGeneration", and "language" attributes described in the master files specification.
The root element has many instances of one tag name, <HierarchyGroup.Each <HierarchyGroup taghas a required attribute, "groupNumber" that contains the structure number for the hierarchy group, as described in the taxonomy file.
The text value of the <HierarchyGroup tag is the title of the group in the specified language.
4.Examples
The structure of the hierarchy groups title files is as follows:
<?xmlversion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
nice:HierarchyGroupTitles
xmlns:xsi="http://
xmlns:nice="http://
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="NICE_hierarchy_group_titles_V0-1.xsd"
dateOfGeneration="2011-08-12" dateInForce="2011-01-01" language="en"
nice:HierarchyGroup groupNumber="1.1"english title of class 1 group 1</nice:HierarchyGroup>
<!-- for example class 27 has the following group titles -->
nice:HierarchyGroup groupNumber="27.1"Carpets, Rugs & Mats</nice:HierarchyGroup>
nice:HierarchyGroup groupNumber="27.1.1"Vehicles</nice:HierarchyGroup>
nice:HierarchyGroup groupNumber="27.2"Other Floor Coverings</nice:HierarchyGroup>
nice:HierarchyGroup groupNumber="27.3"Wall & Ceiling Coverings</nice:HierarchyGroup>
</nice:HierarchyGroupTitles>
5.Schema
The hierarchy group titles XML file must validate against NICE_hierarchy_group_titles_V1-0.xsd.
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