LAN 1.0 is an XML Schema implementation derived from ISO 19115-1, Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals, Clause 7.3. It includes elements for cultural and linguistic adaptability. The XML schema was encoded using the rules described in ISO/TS 19139:2007, Clause 8 and implementation approach from ISO/TS19115-3, Clause 8.

The namespace URI for lan 1.0 is http://standards.iso.org/iso/19115/-3/lan/1.0.

lan.xsd is the XML Schema document to be referenced by XML documents containing XML elements in the lan 1.0 namespace or by XML Schema documents importing the lan 1.0 namespace. This XML schema includes (indirectly) all the implemented concepts of the lan namespace, but it does not contain the declaration of any types.

language.xsd implements the UML conceptual schema defined in ISO 19115-1, Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals, Clause 7.3. It was created using the encoding rules defined in ISO 19118, ISO 19139, and the implementation approach described in ISO 19115-3 and contains the following classes (codeLists are bold): CountryCode, LanguageCode, LocalisedCharacterString, MD_CharacterSetCode, PT_FreeText, PT_Locale, and PT_LocaleContainer

The lan 1.0 namespace imports these other namespaces:

When revisions to these schema become necessary, they will be managed in the ISO TC211 Git Repository.