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Proposed Conformance Clause for genericode 1.0 specification

From
Ken Holman
Date
2007-07-21T20:02:00+00:00
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Proposed Conformance Clause for genericode 1.0 specification
Hi folks,

I'm struggling with how much to put (or not to put) into a
conformance clause for genericode.

We certainly do not want to restrict *how* or *where* genericode is
being used.  For example, I've posted in the UBL group a distillation
of the International Data Dictionary spreadsheets as a number of
genericode files.  This makes the information in these spreadsheets
available as an XML resource for application developers to read and
load up their application structures with language-based definitions
suitable for pop-ups or help information.  The main post is here:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200707/msg00027.html

And there has been some discussion on UBL-Dev about things like column names:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200707/msg00006.html

I chose genericode because it can be used as a general-purpose
keyed-table (used for data representation), unlike other table
structures such as CALS tables (used for data presentation) that
differ.  Interestingly, my current thoughts on this are to use
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