Managing Context Instance and Activity

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Team,

 

Referencing the current schema - the signal part of package looks

well placed to allow indicating use of a context instance to manage

aspects of the interchange.

 

And this would be coupled with the use of specificationID to show

that the signal is infact a context item.

 

Here is how this works:

 

<Package>

    <Signals>

       <Signal name="sample context" nameID="context-01"

                   specificationLocation="http://context.mycompany.com/bpss/buyingcarsfast.xml"

                   specificationID="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-BP/context/">

    </Signals>

    <!-- rest of BPSS package goes here -->

</Package>

 

Now the only other functionality I can see that would be nice to have is ability to toggle

context use at the DocumentEnvelope level - to enable or disable context.

 

So we would need to add a flag to <DocumentEnvelope> after isTamperDetectable - which

would be useContextInstance = true / false.

 

Since we already have the signal method - this allows a partner to signal the use of

context - and then the useContextInstance indicates when during the interchange.

 

Thanks, DW