Re: [xml-dev] XML Standard for exchanging grocery prices

["Stephen Green" <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

Hi Berk

I'd try the Universal Business Language (UBL) Catalogue with some
kind of subset of it for pricelists. I created an example for a pricelist
for someone earlier this year in discussion on the 'ubl-dev' list here
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200702/msg00041.html

There's a ready-made subset and related documents (including an
XForm to help create pricelists/catalogues) on the my company site
under 'Business Web' (see systml link in my signature below). There's
a link to it from the UBL support page too along with other offerings, etc
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-ssc .

[There are some to-and-fro discussions of the UBL schema's suitability
for simple deployments on the thread of the above mailing to ubl-dev
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200702/threads.html#00010
in case you need something with a schema in a single file but that is
more debatable when it comes to claiming standards compliance, as
the thread shows]

The ubl-dev mailing list is managed by OASIS like this one so you join
it the same way.

Good luck with the project

Best regards

-- 
Stephen Green

Partner
SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 117 9541606

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On 30/10/2007, Berk Birand <berkbirand@superonline.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> For an academic project, I am developing a program that basically
> functions like a comparison shopping tool. It needs to compare the
> prices of items from several stores, and display the stores that are the
> closest to the person.
>
> In order to get this to work, I need the price data for various stores.
> I first thought that since Web Services were such a big hype, I would
> have no trouble getting such information. However this proved much
> harder, and I couldn't find any resources.
>
> Are there any standard XML standards for sharing this kind of price
> information (perhaps even just for grocery-like items)? How would I go
> about discovering web services for this purpose?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I have somewhat hit the wall..
>
> Thanks,
>   Berk Birand
>