Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 10|11 July 2006

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
00:30 - 02:30 UTC TUESDAY 11 JULY 2006

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   G. Ken Holman
   Andy Schoka
   Kumar Sivaraman
   Sylvia Webb

STANDING ITEMS

   Additions to the calendar:
      http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm

      None.

   Subcommittee report: SBSC

      GKH: Have opened debate on whether we can follow my proposed
      customization approach, which is no longer based on XPath
      files but rather on a set of schemas.

   Liaison report: X12

      KS: X12 is trying to develop metadata interchange for CICA.

      SW: A standardized format for vendors that will allow the
      exchange of data between developers and their tools.

   Team report: Code Lists

      GKH: TM has given me more UBL-initialized codelists.

      ACTION: GKH to provide revised defaultCodeList.xsl and new
      cl/ directory by the end of the week.

   Subcommittee report: PSC

      SW: No meetings till 7/31.

   Subcommittee report: TSC

      AS: Meetings start this Thursday morning (Wednesday night in
      Western Hemisphere).

   Review of Atlantic call

      No comments.

   Schedule review
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200602/msg00016.html

      See below.

MONTREAL TC MEETING

   Note hotel info in last Atlantic TC minutes. Make reservations now!

      JB: Who's coming?

         JB, staying at the Europa
         GKH, staying at the Europa (Wed-Fri)
         AS, probably staying at the Europa
         SW cannot attend (in Europe)

PUBLIC REVIEW #2

   File names (2 vs. 2.0)

      GKH: Don't feel SG's justification is enough. The issue is
      backwards compatibility of using xsi:schemalocation in UBL
      instances.  The fact that xsd ties instance to model with
      xmi:schemaLocation is not a good practice, but we cannot
      prevent it; embedding a schemaLocation pointing to a local
      directory doesn't work anyway in a UBL context, only in a
      closed system.  The right way to do this is to map namespace
      URIs using the XML Catalog; we should develop guidelines for
      that.  Note that we're not talking about version numbers in
      namespace URIs but rather in file names, which should be
      able to change even if the namespace stays the same.  We
      should deprecate the use of xsi:schemaLocation (which is not
      the same as xsd:schemaLocation, which in our releases are
      all relative) and show people how to use Catalog.

      AS: No strong feelings about this.

      SW: Would prefer to have "dot zero" and be consistent.

      GKH: But note that not all software supports xml catalogs.

      JB: [Recalling that Catalog was the first specification ever
      developed by OASIS] It's an OASIS Standard; we should use
      it.

      ACTION: Everyone to review the correspondence between SG and
      GKH and decide this in the Atlantic call Wednesday.

         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200607/msg00037.html
         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200607/msg00039.html
         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200607/msg00041.html

   art/

      JB: Move UML diagrams to UML directory?

      GKH: Easier to teach if kept in art/; reserve uml/ for class
      diagrams.

      AGREED to keep the process diagrams in the art/ directory
      (even though they happen to be UML activity diagrams).

   asn/

      Dependent on schemas.

   cl/
   cl/gc
   cl/gc/cefact
   cl/gc/default
   cl/gc/special-purpose
   cl/xsdcl
   cl/xsdcl/default
   cl/xsdcl/special-purpose

      Ken will revise by Friday to incorporate new files from TM.

      From recent minutes:

         JB: We will need to provide instructions to users on how
         to create their own enum-based schemas from these files
         (e.g., how to set up namespace declarations).

         SW: Will look into this.

         SW: Still trying to figure out whether whole codelist
         methodology will work.

      JB: So the explanation of how to use the enums sounds like a
      support package issue.

      GKH: Therefore we should include these files only for
      documentary purposes till the support package comes out.

      SW: If you open the enum files in Spy, it complains about an
      absence of namespaces.

      ACTION: SW to send GKH error messages from Spy; GKH to fix
      XSLT that generates the enum schemas.

   doc
   doc/etc

      JB: May be empty for prd2.

      GKH/SW/AS: Current empty doc/etc and doc/ndr did not make it
      into the zip file.

   doc/ndr

      JB: Need the NDR checklist.

   mod
   mod/lib
   mod/maindoc

      JB: Will put in Tim's revision.

      GKH: TM has been delivering all the spreadsheets in a single
      directory. If divided into lib and maindoc, QDT should go
      into lib.

      SW: Two subdirs is fine to maintain consistency with 1.0 and
      with the xsd directory.

      AS: So call them mod/common and mod/maindoc.

      AGREED to keep two subdirectories under mod/ but call them
      mod/common and mod/maindoc.

   uml

      JB: Appears to be done for PRD2.

   validate/

      JB: Need new test instances.

      ACTION: GKH to make new Order test docs (one good and two
      bad).

   xml (sample instances)

      From two weeks ago:

         SW: The problem is that we can't get the instances to
         have correct names with the current naming problems; PB
         is trying to get a consulting resource dedicated to doing
         the instances in his absences, but haven't heard of the
         outcome.  No sample instances this week.

         GKH: So what I'm preparing for the class Friday will be
         what I'm using for the UBL tutorial in Montreal.

         SW: We also needed use cases/scenarios from TM, and those
         are not complete; TM is trying to decide whether to use
         the office supply scenario or a new building materials
         scenario.

      SW: No progress that I know of.

      GKH: Might have Invoice and Order by Wednesday.

      SW: It's possible that Alan can generate instances
      automatically if the scenarios are done.

      ACTION: JB to ask Alan whether it's possible to provide
      sample documents and scenarios.

   xsd
   xsd/common
   xsd/maindoc

      JB: Need another spin from new spreadsheets.

      SW: Will generate another set of schemas, but still need
      questions answered in Atlantic call before the extension
      element can be included.

      ACTION: SW to provide URLs to these questions.

   xsdrt
   xsdrt/common
   xsdrt/maindoc

      JB: Created automatically from xsd files.

PUBLIC REVIEW SCHEDULE

   JB: At this point, we're about a month behind schedule.

   AGREED to try for the following PRD2 delivery schedule:

      Week of 10 July: Create all materials for PRD2; this assumes
      that we resolve all outstanding technical questions (in
      particular, those relating to file names and the extension
      element) on Wednesday 12 July

      Week of 17 July: Ballot the PRD2 CD

      Week of 24 July: Request public review

      Weeks of 31 July and 7 August: Public review

      UBL TC meeting week of 14 August: process comments along
      with work on the Support Package and NDR document

ACTION ITEM REVIEW

   ACTION: NDR editors to look at the syntax of the QDT for
   ChannelCode and tell TM whether this is a legal restriction.

      Pending; this item should be moved to the Atlantic call.

   ACTION: TM to talk to PB about putting the change log into a
   form that will help indicate the differences between this
   review package and the last one.

      Done (submitted as a Word table in WD8 zip).

   ACTION: TM to mail comment submitters with disposition of
   comments.

      Pending.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC