#Project Name: Digital ISO 3166 Country Code List ###Author: Obika Gellineau ###Created: 2013-05-23

###Description

The purpose of this GIT project is to create JSON, CSV, YAML files and an SQL Script containing the following ISO-3166 country code data:

1) ISO 3166-1 Alpha2
2) ISO 3166-1 Alpha3
3) ISO 3166-1 Numeric

The aforementioned files have been placed in the 'iso-country-code-files' directory. The descrpition of each file is as follows:

1)iso3166_full.xml - Comprehensive XML file of ISO 3166 List, where
					each node in the file has muliple elements
2)iso3166_min.xml - Minimal XML file of ISO 3166 List, where each
					node in the file has multiple attributes
3)iso3166_full.xml - Comprehensive JSON file of ISO 3166 List, where
					details such as the list name and date created are
					given
4)iso3166_min.xml - Minimal JSON file of ISO 3166 List, where
					it has been formatted as a JSON Array for
					easy import into MongoDB
5)iso3166.csv - CSV file of ISO 3166 List
6)iso3166.yaml - YAML file of ISO 3166 List
7)iso3166.sql - SQL script to create an iso_codes table in a
				database.

A JAVA program called 'ISO-3166-Downloader' has also been packaged with this project. This program downloads the freely available ISO 3166 list located at www.iso.org.

The program and associated files are located in the 'ISO-3166-Downloader/dist' folder. To build from source, download Ant 1.8 and execute build.xml located in the 'ISO-3166-Downloader' folder.

To execute the jar file, run the following command:

java -cp iso3166dl.jar main.ListDownloader

Program Requirments:

1) Java 1.6 or higher
2) Internet connection

###Updates

2013-06-26 - Initial files were built from the information given from the following sites:

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166
2) http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_names_and_code_elements_xml.htm