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Subject: FW: [ubl-dev] Question regarding document copy and attachment in UBL
In my opinion, any attachments (specially of a nature other then XML) should be taken care of by the very system that is in charge of transporting/storing the UBL document. When we send an UBL document to our customers we also send one or more PDFs along with it. This is taken care of by the transportation system. One of the PDFs can be signaled as a Rendering of the UBL document (for visualization purposes, if the storage system doesn't already provide one). Anyway, the whole package is then delivered to customers, enabling the applications on the customers' end to sort things out: processing the UBL automatically and retrieving the PDFs for human inspection. Joel Paula Managing Partner Scientia - Análise e Desenvolvimento de Software, Lda. www.scientia.pt -----Original Message----- From: Diogo Almeida [mailto:diogo.borges.almeida@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 6:08 PM To: ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Question regarding document copy and attachment in UBL I would consider using the extension element for this if the attachments are XML. Although the expected use of this is as a way to extend the XML as a customisation, it was always a use case from the start that it could be used to add data such as accounting/costing information to an invoice, say. I'm not sure the Attached Document is appropriate for adding data to an existing document but I might be wrong. I'll let someone else comment on how best to use it. The idea is to send an invoice with an embebed word or excel document with some information about the invoice being sent. That information must be sent as word document, excel, pdf or tif, so it can be persisted in FileNet, or some other system. Attached Document seems to solve this problem as I can, apparently, pass anything into it. Another advantage is that it is part of UBL and not a custom extention. However, as I said I'm not an UBL expert, at all. More of a newbie. If someone has an example of an embebed document with UBL I'd greatly appreciate if I could take a look at it and how it was done. As for the other point (copy indicator) I don't have anything else to add. It's pretty much as you explained and we're going that route. Best regards, Diogo Almeida
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