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00001 <?php
00002 /**
00003  * @defgroup Countries
00004  * 
00005  * A set of countries and their relationships.
00006  *
00007  * @section Usage
00008  *
00009  * This module offers the following models:
00010  * 
00011  * @li countries: All countries that are listed in ISO 3166: http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements
00012  * @li continents: All continents. Each country is assigend to one continent
00013  * @li countriesgroups: Groups of countries, currently implemented are European Union, Dependend Territories and Sovereign States.
00014  * @li countriestranslations: Translation of country names is done using DB, not files. Currently, only German translations are
00015  *                            maintained (based upon http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/de/Infoservice/Terminologie/Staatennamen.pdf)
00016  *
00017  * The ID space of countriesgroups is divided into three segments:
00018  * 
00019  * \li 1-99: Reserved for use by this module
00020  * \li 100-999: Reserved for use by other contributions. 
00021  * \li 1000-: May be used by applications. Autoincrement pointer is set to 1000, so your application can insert groups without setting a fixed ID 
00022  */