Re: [ebsoa] UDEF and VCOR material

["David Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

John,

This is nice demo.

The CAM approach we are working on is more aggressive in that it
uses a registry of business nouns with details stored in XML
structure.

This allows you to do automated mapping without requiring the
manual insertion into the XSD or XML of the UDEF IDs.

Here's how this works:

1) Derive dictionary of XML elements / attributes 
    used in domain transactions (for example in the 
    OAGIS 250+ BODs there are about 1,500 unique fields;
     in some cases the same field requires more than one
     entry - as its use changes rules need - (use XPath
     context to distinguish such varients)).

2) Store these in the noun XML format specified by CAM
    (see example here:
    http://drrw.net/backup/NIH/nounexample-eCGAP.xml).

3) CAM processor inspects XML instance - for each
    element / attribute set - matches to noun definitions
    based on XPath expression and matching heuristics
    of name and content model.

4) CAM applies rules accordingly.

5) Once such training has occurred - CAM can inspect
    transactions it has never seen before, and yet
    have the ability to apply rules intelligently.

As you mentioned today on the call - getting to the point
where this is automated part of the design / implementation 
instead of the manually intensive effort of today - is
a key need.

Here's the formal XSD of the CAM noun metadata:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/9714/nounmetadata.xsd

DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hardin" <john@maphin.net>
To: <ebsoa@lists.oasis-open.org>; <udef@opengroup.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:07 PM
Subject: [ebsoa] UDEF and VCOR material


> Once again, thank you to everyone on the call. This is great work to be 
> engaged in. Here are the references to VCOR and UDEF.
> 
> 
> http://www.value-chain.org
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/udef/
> 
> http://www.udef.org
> 
> and a useful demonstration of the UDEF concept, albeit with the UDEF 
> ID's in the instance documents (a STRICT NO-NO).... For demonstration 
> purposes we could get away with it.
> 
> http://www.maphin.net:8080/UDEFServlet/UdefReport1
> 
> Use the two documents in the zip file (one is xCBL Purchase Order, the 
> other OAGIS 7 Purchase Order). Both have the UDEF ID's enabled.
> 
> john
> 
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