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2.6.8 Name

Descriptive name for the field. In the segment attribute tables this information is in a column labeled ELEMENT NAME.

When the same name is used in more than one segment, it must have the same data type and semantic meaning in each segment, but it will have a distinct ID number (see Section 2.6.7, "ID number") in each distinct segment. To deal with any ambiguities arising from this convention, whenever a field is referenced herein, the segment name and position must always be included.

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