Re: [ubl-comment] To define propietary business documents

["Thomas Y.T. Lee" <ytlee@csis.hku.hk>]

Hi Todd,

It happens to me that I can't get rid of code sometimes. For example, when
I want to model a small enumeration like whether a ship status is
"loading", "discharge", or "transit", it would be strange to use id. What
CCT should I model a ShipStatus? Id (ShipStatusId), Code (ShipStatusCode),
Name (ShipStatusName), or Text (ShipStatusText)? Seems code sounds more
appropriate. I may be wrong since I still don't have full understanding of
the specs, as I said. What do you think?

Best regards,

Thomas

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Todd Boyle wrote:

> Use ID.  Forget about code. Codes are evil.  :-)
>
> Some owners of list data will use the CCTS "Code" type.
> When you encounter them you can
>
>   - wrapper them as an Identifier type, or
>
>   - if the set is small or static, in your market or community then, put the
>   whole set or subset, in your runtime, or XML schema.  But don't
> attempt to put the entire EDIFACT code lists, like
> CommerceOne did with their XDR version of XCBL, "XCBL30.xdr"
> which is 691Kb.
> http://www.google.com/search?q=AmericanPsychiatricAssociationDiagnosticStatisticalManualOfMentalDisorders