Ron, the Universal Postal Union [http://www.upu.int] keeps some record about internationally used address formats. However, what they have is also not a standard, but more of an inventory of national peculiarities [http://www.upu.int/addressing/AN/AN.pdf]. In HL7, an international health care standard, we have been struggling with a standard address format for quite a while, and we now came up with an alternative solution, which is more like a text-markup approach than a fixed data structure. This works well for addresses and person names. You can see our draft specification at [http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/v3dt], and specifically you can see an explanation and example of our approach at [http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/v3dt/report.html#PostalAddress] Hope this might help. If you have comments or suggestions, please contact me. thanks, -Gunther Ron Peterson wrote: > > Is there any such thing as a standard schema for international > addresses? Maybe I'm grasping at straws, but one can always hope. I > can find information about individual countries easily enough. But how > about a general solution? Or is this just pie in the sky? > > Ron Peterson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ************
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