# \<category>

#### What does 'category' mean? <a href="#uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-whatdoescategorymean" id="uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-whatdoescategorymean"></a>

The subelement "category" typically identifies a nationality. This element lists the available categories for a sport/ sport ID.

In other words, the category addresses the country where the tournament occurs. However, sometimes category indicates the tournament itself.&#x20;

#### Example XML Response Snippet <a href="#uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-examplexmlresponsesnippet" id="uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-examplexmlresponsesnippet"></a>

| `<category` `id="sr:category:1"` `name="England"` `country_code="ENG"/>` |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |

#### Element Attributes <a href="#uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-elementattributes" id="uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-elementattributes"></a>

List of attributes in the category sub-element:

| Attribute       | Meaning                                                                                                            | Possible values                                                 |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| *id*            | <p>Unique ID of the category.</p><p><br></p>                                                                       | <p>String value</p><p>Example: <em>id="sr:category:19"</em></p> |
| *name*          | Name of the category/country                                                                                       | <p>String value</p><p>Example: <em>name="USA"</em></p>          |
| *country\_code* | <p>Code of the country.</p><p><em>Note: This is available only when the category is criterion is country.</em></p> | <p>String value</p><p>Example: <em>country\_code="USA"</em></p> |

#### **Special Cases** <a href="#uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-specialcases" id="uofapi-less-than-category-greater-than-specialcases"></a>

The following covers some special cases where category does not identify the country. Instead, it identifies the tournament.

1. **For Tennis**

the category is the recurrent tournament which takes place periodically. In such a case, please note that there is no *country\_code attribute* and the *name* specifies the name of the tournament.

Here *id="sr:category:3" name="ATW", id="sr:category:6" name="WTA", etc* identifies the tournament.

```xml
<categories>

<category id="sr:category:3" name="АТР" />

<category id="sr:category:6" name="WTA"/>

< category id="sr:category:72" name="Challenger" />

<category id="sr:category:74" name="Federation Cup"/>

<category id="sr:category:76" name="Davis Cup" />

<category id="sr: category:79" name="Exhibition"/>

<category id="sr: category:181" name="Hopman Cup"/>

<category id="sr:category:213" name="ITF Women" />

<category id="sr: category:442" name="Veterans Men"/>

<category id="sr:category:443" name="Veterans Women" />

<category id="sr: name="Atf" name="Atf"/>

<category id="sr:category:785" name="ITF Men" />

<category id="sr: name="WTA name="WTA 125K"/>
```

**2. For Rugby**

The category can be a mix of country and the tournaments. In the following example, category = 81, 82, 83 identifies the Rugby tournaments where as category = 162, 174, 451... identify the country

*Please note that sport ID (12 for Rugby) is same for all the categories. However, you will have a unique category ID for each category such as Rugby Union, Rugby League, France, Italy, etc.*

```xml
<sport id="sr: sport:12" name="Rugby" / >
< categories>
<category id="sr: category:81" name="International"/> < category id="sr: category:82" name="Rugby Union"/> ‹category id="sr: category:83" name="Rugby League"/>
<category id="sr: category:162" name="France" country_code="FRA" />
< category id="sr: category:174" name="Italy" country_code="ITA"/>
< category id="sr: category:451" name="Spain" country_code="ESP" />
< category id="sr:category:477" name="Australia" country_code="AUS"/> < category id="sr: category:478" name="Finland" country_code="FIN" /> < category id="sr: category:479" name="New Zealand" country_code="NZL"/>
```