Geographic COmmon (GCO) extensible markup language is a component of the XML Schema Implementation of Geographic Information Metadata documented in ISO/TS 19139:2007. GCO includes all the definitions of http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco namespace. The root document of this namespace is the file gco.xsd. This gcoBase.xsd schema provides: 1. tools to handle specific objects like "code lists" and "record"; 2. Some XML types representing that do not follow the general encoding rules. |