[CAP] Geocodes

[Farrel Lifson]

I noticed that in CAP messages from the NOAA (for instance in this
message  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/fl.cap) they use geocodes of
the form

  <geocode>012009</geocode>

as opposed to the format in the capspec of

  <geocode>
    <valueName>Name</valueName>
    <value>012009</value>
  </geocode>

Is this a common exception that is widely used and should be taken
into account when parsing or should a CAP 1.1 compliant parser reject
a message that contains a geocode like this?

Thanks in advance,
Farrel
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