[ubl-ndrsc] Re: [ubl-lcsc] New recommendations/comments from the NDR SC

The 
observations we made (from NDR) regarding 
lots of optionality and "flatness" in e.g. the UBL:Address structure:

  

  
The structure seems unusually flat...
We note that there's a lot of optionality of 
  elements...

...could be restated in terms of good old fashioned 
database normalization basics.  I wonder if it would be 
possible and valuable to restate some the definitions regarding N-th normal 
forms (from relational theory) in XML terms.  Once they were restated the 
NDR could take a crack at a recommendation in those terms, e.g. "we recommend 
3NF" (non-key columns depend upon the key, the whole key, and nothing but the 
key -- so help me Codd).

 

This would make our recommendations more 
decidable.

 

Regards,

Bill