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Subject: Fwd: eDocs requirements for the UBL Forms Presentation Subcommittee
Fellow members, an action item for me was to write to the eDocs group to invite their participation. Below is the message that I sent last week. .................. Ken Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:23:33 -0400 To: Markus.Pikart@unece.org From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> Subject: eDocs requirements for the UBL Forms Presentation Subcommittee Good day, Markus, my name is Ken and I'm chairing the UBL Forms Presentation Subcommittee (FPSC) at OASIS. I'm writing to you and the eDocs committee today on behalf of our subcommittee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/fpsc (our charter can be found under the document links until a problem is fixed that is preventing the "charter" link from working) We are at the fledgling stages of this new subcommittee and we were hoping to have the input from you and your committee regarding your requirements for printing instances of UBL documents according to the UN Layout Key. Before we progress very far we want to ensure that the work we do can be of use towards your objectives and contribute to the success of your project. Our work grew out of some prototype stylesheet efforts to render instances of UBL XML document models in the 0p70 review release of UBL produced at the end of January 2003. The prototype XSLT stylesheets rendered HTML instances for web browsers and XSL-FO instances for paper page rendering: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs These efforts revealed the necessity not to create XSLT stylesheets, but to have formal formatting specifications governing the presentation of the information found in a UBL instance. In the spirit of openness being fostered by the UBL project, it is only our objective to formalize the specification of what information in an instance of a UBL document is to be formatted and how it is to appear on a printed page, without consideration or bias towards any particular transformation or rendering technology. Our UBL FPSC subcommittee is undertaking to develop these technology-agnostic specifications to meet the requirements of the UBL Library Content Subcommittee (LCSC) and their next release of the UBL document models. We are confident the lessons learned form our prototype results will lead us to produce useful and accessible work products for implementers of formatting technologies to service both users and industry in the rendering of instances of UBL document models to the web and to paper. As part of our prototyping we considered the UN layout key by including four of the UN numbered documents and three mockups of UN-like documents. Jean McInerney is one of our members and she helped me with the mockups and prototypes. To move to the next stage of UBL development we need to progress these prototype specifications into production-quality specifications of the mappings of UBL instances to the UN layout key. Here are pointers to the sample work we did during our short prototyping stage, where you will find links to PDF files showing the results we created using XSLT and XSL-FO to meet the draft rudimentary formatting specifications for UN Layouts: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs/UN220Order.html http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs/UN320OrderResponse.html http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs/UNX01OrderResponseSimple.html http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs/UNX02OrderCancellation.html http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs/UN351DespatchAdvice.html http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs/UNX03ReceiptAdvice.html http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/0p70/fs/UN380Invoice.html To complete this effort, however, we need to ensure our subcommittee's work is consistent with and of use in the eDocs context, given your demonstrated expertise with the UN Layout key. Having input from Jean and other members of your eDocs committee will leverage our efforts to help, together, towards any of your objectives regarding working with UBL instances. As I said, our chartered group is fledgling and at the point of establishing our deliverables and timelines to contribute our next effort to the UBL release, building on our prototypes and publishing the formal technology-agnostic formatting specifications as quickly as possible to foster demonstrable implementations in time for the next release of UBL. We are confident our focus on the UBL document models being developed by the LCSC and the independence of what we do from any particular formatting technology will ensure wide acceptance of the work products from our subcommittee. We hope you and your group find that our work is worthy of your consideration and that other members of your group will decide to participate in FPSC along with Joan. We would welcome your expertise and contribution to help us help you in your goals by working together. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! ..................... Ken -- Upcoming hands-on courses: Europe (XSLT/XPath): May 5, 2003 - Europe (XSL-FO): May 16, 2003 - (XSLT/XPath and/or XSL-FO) North America: June 16-20, 2003 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/o/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-10-1 Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/o/bc
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