eierlegende _V_ollmilchsau

An "eierlegendevollmilchsau"
would literally translate as a "egg-laying whole-milk sow" but should
be understood in English as something along the lines of "all things to
all people". An interesting term in the localization debate…. ;-)

 

 

Peter Brown

Head of
Information Resources Management

European
Parliament

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From: Lisa [mailto:] 

Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:40
AM

To: Michael
Dill; 'Stephen Green';


Subject: Re: [ubl] A Prototype
Schema for UBL Models

 

Michael

Isn't an a egg-laying woolly milch sow?  Hmmm.... now how does that fit in
with XML......  ;-)

 

Lisa

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Michael Dill 

To: 'Stephen Green' ; 

Sent: Monday, May 24,
2004 5:31 PM

Subject: AW: [ubl] A
Prototype Schema for UBL Models

 

Ooops, Stephen,

I thought, You were considering
spreadsheet formats as non-proprietary as well as UML, where XMI serves
as a model transport language, which already exists as a more or less
sufficient standard.

 

Now it seems to me, that just XML is
non-proprietary for you?

 

I had a dream: formlery we build several
proprietary interfaces for the same purpose. Now we build several
non-proprietary interfaces for the same purpose. Is that a progress?

 

Please find enclosed a draft for another
schema modeling language (please replace virtually the term gefeg by any other
namespace).

 

greetings

Michael

 

p.s. Who could translate 'eierlegende
Wollmilchsau' into English?

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Von: Stephen Green
[mailto:]

Gesendet: Montag, 24. Mai 2004
23:53

An: 

Betreff: [ubl] A Prototype Schema
for UBL Models

I wonder if this will be of interest to the UBL TC.

 

This was discussed a while ago in an ISC meeting.

 

I've prototyped a Schema for the UBL models, based on the
ccts:CoreComponentsParameter Schema Module, which it imports.

(both attached)

 

I guess it could be used as an alternative means of storing
the model

data in a non-proprietary (XML) format from which it
could be

transformed, perhaps into a variety of other formats,
including 

Schemas, perhaps forms and even perhaps class diagrams.

Of course it could be transformed to and from spreadsheets
too and

other proprietary formats. As such it could be of interest
to tools

 

but it might help towards solving customization/context
problems too

with regard to autogeneration.

 

All the best

 

Steve 

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