Jim Cabral and ECF TC,
I have uncovered, what appears to be an error, within the ECF 5 specification documents.
This error appears in section 6.5 'Case Participant Rules', within the paragraph which follows Table 7.
This paragraph is:
The CaseParticipantRoleCode.gc code list defines the allowed values for ecf:CaseParticipantRoleCode and includes columns indicating which code values are valid in combination with each role element. If ecf:CaseParticipantRoleCode is provided, the code value MUST be in the CaseParticipantRoleCode.gc code list and the code list column matching the role element MUST have the value "true". Parties not represented by an attorney should be represented with ecf:CaseParty with a ecf:CasePartyRepresentationIndicator value of "true".
The error appears to be that the element ecf:CasePartyRepresentationIndicator should instead be ecf:CasePartySelfRepresentationIndicator .
While considering this paragraph, there may be a second inaccuracy. The paragraph references CaseParticipantRoleCode.gc and also references "columns indicating which code values are valid in combination with each role element'. I believe that these 'columns' to which the paragraph refers appear within CaseParticipantRoleCode-roles.gc and are not provided in CaseParticipantRoleCode.gc.
The columns referred to are named CaseDefendantParty, CaseInitiatingParty, CaseRespondentParty, CaseOtherParty, CaseOtherEntity, CaseDefendantAttorney, CaseInitiatingAttorney, CaseProsecutionAttorney, CaseOtherEntityAttorney, CaseOffical and CaseJudge.
A third issue in the section is an error in the example. The example has nc:EntityPerson within nc:Case/j:CaseAugmentation/j:CaseOfficial. Instead of nc:EntityPerson, this should be nc:RoleOfPerson.
Gary Graham