Re: [clr-dev] Question about the validation tools

[ericdes <eric@vcardprocessor.com>]

Yes, my question was more related to the validation process that you 
mentioned in (2). Maybe I should re-phrase my question like this:

Are there any (or where are the) specifications regarding for example 
what predicates are valid within the context section of a CVA file? Or 
should I take the XSLT tool you mentioned earlier as "the" way to define 
what is valid or not? I'm thinking of how to insure interoperability 
between various ways of validating.

Eric Desgranges

On 5/13/2010 4:32 AM, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2010-05-12 19:46 -0700, ericdes wrote:
>> I'd be interested in knowing what it would take to write those
>> validation routines in C#. It looks as if the Java world has already
>> what it takes out of the box, or am I wrong? Is there any source code
>> released?
>
> The committee is not responsible for source code, only specifications.
> This was an explicit decision made in the early days of the committee
> when some code was available, but it was decided not to work with it.
> The committee decided only to work on the specifications of the file
> formats and not any implementations.
>
> And when you ask of "validation", I can think of two kinds of validation:
>
> (1) - the genericode and CVA files themselves are validly written; and
>
> (2) - XML instances validate against the constraints expressed in
> genericode
> and CVA files.
>
> I have not seen any implementation of (1). It would be checking that the
> files are valid according to the conformance constraints in the relevant
> chapters of each specification.
>
> For (2) I have a complete running implementation in XSLT and Schematron
> found on Crane's web site:
>
> http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/#cva2sch
>
> ... that is free to use by anyone. It is being used in the UBL committee
> to create the validation stylesheets included in the UBL distribution.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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