Changes for page 4 General Notes for Implementers
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... ... @@ -443,11 +443,15 @@ 443 443 444 444 There is no ambiguity in these formats so that for any given value of time, the category of the period (and thus the intended time period range) is always clear. It should also be noted that by utilizing the ISO 8601 format, and a format loosely based on it for the report periods, the values of time can easily be sorted chronologically without additional parsing. 445 445 446 -=== 4.2.12 Effect on Time Ranges === 446 +1. 447 +11. 448 +111. Effect on Time Ranges 447 447 448 448 All SDMX-ML data messages are capable of functioning in a manner similar to SDMXEDI if the Dimension at the observation level is time: the time period for the first observation can be stated and the rest of the observations can omit the time value as it can be derived from the start time and the frequency. Since the frequency can be determined based on the actual format of the time value for everything but distinct points in time and time ranges, this makes is even simpler to process as the interval between time ranges is known directly from the time value. 449 449 450 -=== 4.2.13 Time in Query Messages === 452 +1. 453 +11. 454 +111. Time in Query Messages 451 451 452 452 When querying for time values, the value of a time parameter can be provided as any of the Observational Time Period formats and must be paired with an operator. This section will detail how systems processing query messages should interpret these parameters. 453 453 ... ... @@ -501,11 +501,9 @@ 501 501 * 2010-M07 or later (any reporting year start day) 502 502 * 2010-W27 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-01-01)^^5^^ 503 503 * 2010-D182 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-01-01) 504 -* 2010-W28 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-07-01)^^6^^ 505 -* 2010-D185or later(reportingyear start day ~-~-07-01)508 +* 2010-W28 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-07-01)^^6^^ • 2010-D185 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-07-01) 509 +*1. Versioning 506 506 507 -= 4.3 Versioning == 508 - 509 509 Versioning operates at the level of versionable and maintainable objects in the SDMX information model. Within the SDMX Structure and MetadataSet messages, there is a well-defined pattern for artefact versioning and referencing. The artefact identifiers are qualified by their version numbers – that is, an object with an Agency of "A", and ID of "X" and a version of "1.0.0" is a different object than one with an Agency of "A", an ID of "X", and a version of "1.1.0". 510 510 511 511 As of SDMX 3.0, the versioning rules are extended to allow for truly versioned artefacts through the implementation of the rules of the well-known practice called "Semantic Versioning" [[(>>url:http://semver.org/]][[http:~~/~~/semver.org>>url:http://semver.org/]][[)>>url:http://semver.org/]], in addition to the legacy non-restrictive versioning scheme. In addition, the "isFinal" property is removed from ... ... @@ -514,13 +514,17 @@ 514 514 515 515 ‘1.0’. 516 516 517 -=== 4.3.1 Non-versioned artefacts === 519 +1. 520 +11. 521 +111. Non-versioned artefacts 518 518 519 519 Indeed, some use cases do not need or are incompatible with versioning for some or all their structural artefacts, such as the Agency, Data Providers, Metadata Providers and Data Consumer Schemes. These artefacts follow the legacy versioning, with a fixed version set to ‘1.0’. 520 520 521 521 Many existing organisation’s data management systems work with version-less structures and apply ad-hoc structural metadata governance processes. The new nonversioned artefacts will allow supporting those numerous situations, where organisations do not manage version numbers. 522 522 523 -=== 4.3.2 Semantically versioned artefacts === 527 +1. 528 +11. 529 +111. Semantically versioned artefacts 524 524 525 525 Since the purpose of SDMX versioning is to allow communicating the structural artefact changes to data exchange partners and connected systems, SDMX 3.0 offers Semantic Versioning (aka SemVer) with a clear and unambiguous syntax to all semantically versioned SDMX 3.0 structural artefacts. Semantic versioning will thus better respond to situations where the SDMX standard itself is the only structural contract between data providers and data consumers and where changes in structures can only be communicated through the version number increases. 526 526