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Isn't this what Oasis/UBL is trying to do also?
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Actually not at all - they are completely different things, although UBL
was at one time considering using UDEF in its work. UBL is creating XML
representations of business transactions, while UDEF is much more
fine-grained: it focuses on using "intelligent identifiers" to represent
XML tag semantics.
The issue that many people express is that XML tags do not provide
adequate semantic clarity - for example, what does "LastName" mean? In
some cultures, the last name is not what we (US) consider to be "family
name". UDEF attempts to solve (or at least help) this by creating
"registered universal IDs" that provide a common frame of reference to
establish semantics. For example, the UDEF ID of "g.9_8" means the
following in the following contexts:
MIL-STD-2549: Part Product Identifier
X12 EDI: Product/Service ID
etc.
An XML representation would be:
<ProductPartIdentifierUID=“9_5.8”>123-456-789</ProductPartIdentifier>
The communicated benefit is that one can change tag names, but use of
the UID signifies "what one is *really* talking about".
Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
Patrick.Garvey@talaris.com wrote:
>
> <quote>
> One approach that looks interesting is the UDEF:
>
> http://www.udef.org
>
> Which at least attempts to provide some equivalence between ns1:tomato
> and ns2:tomatoe...
>
> </quote>
>
> This is interesting. Isn't this what Oasis/UBL is trying to do also? UDEF, OAG, UBL, xCBL, etc.... that sounds like a lot of "universal" electronic business interchange formats. Which is fine with me, means that they'll need people to write translation code :-)
>
> But this has to be seen as a problem. From reading their mailing lists I know that UBL is trying to work with OAG on document design. How would UDEF enter the picture??
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