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Information items in 2-prd2-cd minimal instances

From: Ken Holman <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:35:00 -0000

At 2006-08-13 10:49 +0800, Tim McGrath wrote: >i agree with sylvia but i think she is reading >too much into this. what i see in ken's >documents is simply the "only mandatory" >items. that is, an automatic generation of a >model that only contains the items flagged as mandatory in the schema. Precisely. >no business rules are used to guide this model >and as such it is fairly meaningless. no-one >could use this model as-is. consider the >waybill - it only decribes a shipment and no parties involved! Does that mean that it doesn't have sufficient mandatory elements for a UBL document type? >i suspect ken was seeing value in a "meets all >mandatory requirements" generic model for >minimum compliance checking. but i am think this >is more a technical objective than a business one. Kind of ... but is there a business benefit enabled by the technical enabling of a transaction of core information upon which the receiver adds what is needed. >in fact there is a danger here that this type of >model may become a target for compliance in >application interfaces. i am not sure we want that. I think it is worth discussing. Thanks, Tim! . . . . . . Ken -- UBL/XML/XSLT/XSL-FO training: Vårø, Denmark 06-09-25/10-06 World-wide corporate, govt. & user group UBL, XSL, & XML training. G. Ken Holman mailto:[email protected] Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/o/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Cancer Awareness Aug'05 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/o/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal