Changes for page 4 General Notes for Implementers

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  * 2010-M07 or later (any reporting year start day)
  * 2010-W27 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-01-01)^^5^^
  * 2010-D182 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-01-01)
--* 2010-W28 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-07-01)^^6^^
--* 2010-D185 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-07-01)
++* 2010-W28 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-07-01)^^6^^ •    2010-D185 or later (reporting year start day ~-~-07-01)
++*1. Versioning
--= 4.3 Versioning ==
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  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".
  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
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  ‘1.0’.
--=== 4.3.1 Non-versioned artefacts ===
++=== 4.2.14 Non-versioned artefacts ===
  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’.
  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.
--=== 4.3.2 Semantically versioned artefacts ===
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++111. Semantically versioned artefacts
  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.
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  The production versions of identifiable artefacts are assumed stable, i.e., they do not have an EXTENSION. This is because once in production, an artefact cannot change in any way, or it must change the version. For cases where an artefact is not static, like during the drafting, the version must indicate this by including an EXTENSION. Draft artefacts should not be used outside of a specific system designed to accommodate them. For most purposes, all artefacts should become stable before being used in production.
--=== 4.3.3 Legacy-versioned artefacts ===
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  Organisations wishing to keep a maximum of backwards compatibility with existing implementations can continue using the previous 2-digit convention for version numbers (MAJOR.MINOR) as in the past, such as '2.3', but without the ‘isFinal’ property. The new SDMX 3.0 standard does not add any strict rules or guarantees about changes in those artefacts, since the legacy versioning rules were rather loose and non-binding, including the meaning of the ‘isFinal’ property, and their implementations were varying.
  In order to make artefacts immutable or changes truly predictable, a move to the new semantic versioning syntax is required.
--=== 4.3.4 Dependency management and references ===
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  New flexible dependency specifications with wildcarding allow for easier data model maintenance and enhancements for semantically versioned SDMX artefacts. This allows implementing a smart referencing mechanism, whereby an artefact may reference:
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  Full details can be found in the SDMX RESTful web services specification.
--== 4.4 Structural Metadata Querying Best Practices ==
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++11. Structural Metadata Querying Best Practices
  When querying for structural metadata, the ability to state how references should be resolved is quite powerful. However, this mechanism is not always necessary and can create an undue burden on the systems processing the queries if it is not used properly.
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  When the referenced object is not known, then the reference resolution mechanism could be used. For example, suppose one wanted to find all category schemes and the related categorisations for a given maintenance agency. In this case, one could query for the category scheme by the maintenance agency and specify that parent and sibling references should be resolved. This would result in the categorisations which reference the categories in the matched schemes to be returned, as well as the object which they categorise.
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  [[~[1~]>>path:#_ftnref1]] Regular expressions, as specified in [[W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD)>>url:https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/]][[ >>url:https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/]][[1.1 Part 2: Datatypes>>url:https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/]][[.>>url:https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/]]