RE: [ubl-ndrsc] Bill&Eve's proposal on local/global elements

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CRAWFORD, Mark <>
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2002-01-31T15:59:50+00:00
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RE: [ubl-ndrsc] Bill&Eve's proposal on local/global elements
Title: RE: [ubl-ndrsc] Bill&Eve's proposal on local/global elements

Eve,

Comments inline -

> The proposal (which did get adopted; Mavis will be following 

> up with the

> minutes soon) does not depend on the RTs being identical to 

> the CCTs.  It

> seems to me that there is a crude implied inheritance 

> mechanism at work

> here, with the CCT Numeric.Type being an ancestor of several 

> of the RTs!

Right.  They are not identical.  There is already a relationship table (See Table 6-3 in Section 6.1.3.3)

> 

> Since the RTs are more expressive and since the TC committed 

> to maintaining

> a clear list of the RTs UBL uses (recognizing that we may 

> need to add some due

> to the syntax-specific nature of our work or for other 

> reasons), it seems safe

> to stick with RTs as part of our naming scheme.  The CCTs 

> could end up being

> referenced only in the dictionary documentation, and even 

> then, if the CCTs

> are less expressive, RTs work better there too.

Agreed.

> 

> I wonder, though, if it would be handy for us to explicitly 

> keep track of the

> RT-to-CCT correspondence even after we start adding a few new RTs.\

We may even have additional CCT proposals to make to CEFACT depending on what RTs we decide we need.

Mark