NOTE The template has been defined in the context of NDLO. Refer to the business context for details of related templates.

NOTE An explanation of a template and the associated instantiation path is provided in the Template overview section.

This template describes how to represent a code with its encoding system. An instance of identification_assignment should have an instance of document_assignment classified as "Encoding system" assigned to it. The encoding system is specified by either identification assignment description (template assigning_descriptor), referenced identification assignment (template assigning_referenced_document) or both.

Allow the Identification_assignment entity instantiated in this path to be referenced when this template is used.

Note: The Identification_assignment entity can be referenced in a template path by:

%^target = $representing_code.id_assgn%

where target is the parameter to which the Identification_assignment is bound.

Allow the Class entity instantiated in this path to be referenced when this template is used.

Note: The Class entity can be referenced in a template path by:

%^target = $representing_code.class%

where target is the parameter to which the Class is bound.

Allow the Classification_assignment entity instantiated in this path to be referenced when this template is used.

Note: The Classification_assignment entity can be referenced in a template path by:

%^target = $representing_code.class_asg%

where target is the parameter to which the Classification_assignment is bound.

Identification_assignment

-- Mark the Identification_assignment entity as
-- referable when this template is used by binding it to the reference
-- parameter id_assgn
%^id_assgn = Identification_assignment%
Identification_assignment.identifier = @id
Identification_assignment.role = '/IGNORE'
Identification_assignment.description = '/NULL'
Identification_assignment.items -> @items

-- provide the role of the identification by classifying the Identification_assignment
/assigning_reference_data(
    items=^id_assgn,
    class_name=@id_class_name,
    ecl_id=@id_ecl_id)/
Class

-- Mark the Class entity as referable when this template is used.
%^class = Class%
^class.id = '/IGNORE'
^class.name = @class_name
^class.description = '/IGNORE'

-- provide the description of the identification by classifying the class
/assigning_reference_data(
    items=^class,
    class_name=@class_class_name,
    ecl_id=@class_ecl_id)/
Classification_assignment

-- Mark the Classification_assignment entity as referable when this template is used.
-- In other words, bind the Document_assignment instance to the reference
-- parameter doc_asg
%^class_asg = Classification_assignment%
^class_asg.role = '/IGNORE'
^class_asg.items -> ^id_assgn

-- Assign the identification_assignment to class entity it is used for
^class_asg.assigned_document -> ^class

The following entities are instantiated with attributes as specified:

Entity in path	Value	Inherited from
Identification_assignment.identifier	@id	—
Identification_assignment.role	'/IGNORE'	—
Identification_assignment.description	'/NULL'	—
Class.id	'/IGNORE'	—
Class.name	@class_name	—
Class.description	'/IGNORE'	—
Classification_assignment.role	'/IGNORE'	—

The instance diagram in Figure 3 shows an example of the EXPRESS entities and templates that are instantiated by the template:

/representing_code(items='#1', class_name='....', ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:std')/

(an illustration of the consolidated representing_code template is shown in Figure 4 below.)

The following section details how the representing_code template can be optionally characterized by assigning other constructs to it. These are characterizations commonly applied to the template. The ISO 10303-239 EXPRESS model may enable other assignments to the entities instantiated by the template.

The following characterizations may apply:

Characterization Identification description or document reference

NOTE this characterization is optional.

The identification assignment Identification_assignment has to have one of the optional templates assigned. Either assigning_descriptor or assigning_referenced_document
Error T1: DEX assigning_referenced_document not in Dexlib
. The parameters for both templates are listed as part of the list of input parameters and have to be chosen respectively.