NAML/xNAL REVISIONS ------------------------ 0.5 -> 0.6, 13 Jan.2000 A name and address can now have multiple addresses for a name (person/company) in version 0.6 of NAML.DTD. Multiple addresses could be anything such as billing address, postal address, residential address, etc. Please have a look at NAML.XML example file that addresses multiple addresses for a record. Thanks to Patrick Durusau (pdurusau@emory.edu) for this suggestion. ****************************************************** 0.6->0.7, 2 June 2000 - Country code introduced - address status introduced. This will enable to record all current and past addresses of a customer giving details about the validity dates of an address - Name tag re-named to as "general-name" - account descriptor removed as it makes no sense to have it under name - company details included - relationship type person/company records can be represented. Eg. JAMES SMITH "IN TRUST FOR" PETER SMITH MASTERSOFT LTD. "TRADING AS" COGNITO, INC ******************************************************* October 2000 : Release of Version 1.1 of Global Address Specifications by AND Solutions ******************************************************* 0.7 -> 2.0, 15 January 2001 - Country details included - Company changed to Organisation ******************************************************** 2.0 -> 3.0, 5 February 2001 - large mail user fields added - Post office added - town type added Release of Version 1.2 of Global Address Specification by AND Solutions that ******************************************************** New Version with xNAL-> March 2001 - Removal of relationship types that was included in version 0.7 - Breakup of NAML DTD into: xNL.DTD V1.0 , xAL.DTD V1.0 and xNAL.DTD V1.0 - Use Version 1.2 of Global Address Specification as the basis for xAL DTD. - Integration of AND's Global Address Spec. with the address component of NAML to form xAL.DTD ******************************************************** May 2, 2001 - Added Preceding title, GenerationIdentifier, General Suffix to xNL - Added Complex Street type, Highway Type, Highway Suffix, PostalTown Suffix, Foreign Connector, PremiseLocation, SubPremiseLocation to xAL ******************************************************** May 31, 2002 Major Release of xNL and xAL - Version 2.0 Not backward compatible as a result of this. New structures and re-organised structures in xNL and xAL Provides full namespace support