At 11:48 PM 7/2/2003 +0100, Anthony B. Coates wrote:
>** Reply to message from Dan Vint <> on Wed, 02 Jul 2003
>15:38:23 -0700
>
> > Where I have problems with one namespace is for my usage - where I might
> > only want to bring in the UBL code lists or UBL basic data types (those
> > re-usable pieces) because I would want to use them in my own schemas for a
> > vertical industry that doesn't do much with PO's and order management. I
> > would also like to get to some of the common things like address and party
> > without having the whole UBL universe imported into my environment. I want
> > selective reuse and I don't know how to do that when there is one
> namespace
> > and one file.
>
>At that level, I don't think there is a simple solution. What have done in
>practice is to use an XSLT stylesheet or two to extract just the item I want,
>plus all of the things it depends on, from the Schema. I can also think
>of one
>commercial tool that might be able to do it. I think it is beyond our
>capabilities to organise the Schemas to make this easy, though (it would lead
>to too many Schema files, too many includes).
I would think that we should at least get into separate files/namespaces
the things that are shared across the different documents - for instance
the data types, and common elements. I would hope that we are also
following our own proposal for any UBL code lists and formatting them so
that people can reuse them as well.
..dan
> Cheers,
> Tony.
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