ryanscholzdvm
commented
8 months ago Another option was presented by @mkm1879 on today's call. That would be to create a separate element for Official International, that was initially based on the Manufacturer RFID element. Something along these lines:
<xs:element name="OfficialInternational">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation>
900 series but not "999" RFID tags or chips that are provided by USDA as official identification for internationally born livestock that require tagging in the United States.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="Number" type="OfficialInternational" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
mmcgrath
After the presentation to USAHA yesterday on the proposed update, Dr. Aaron Scott approached me concerned that USDA had messed us up by creating the 900-series international AIN tags that can be used as replacement tags for internationally-born animals that have lost their tags. Because the animals were not born in the US, they can not use 840-series tags, but because they are located in the US, it is not possible to obtain replacement tags for the country of origin.
We talked through the options, and the thoughts that we came up with were to either add another tag type, use the OtherOfficialID type, or possibly add an attribute to the MfrRFID type that could signify it was actually an official ID (I think probably my preference).
Something along the lines of this:
<xs:element name="MfrRFID"><xs:annotation><xs:documentation>900 series but not "999" RFID tags or chips.</xs:documentation></xs:annotation><xs:complexType><xs:attribute name="Number" type="MfrRFIDType" use="required"/><xs:attribute name="OfficialInternational" type="Boolean" use="optional"/></xs:complexType></xs:element>