[code] Foreign sources for UBL code list definitions

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Good morning, folks!

In yesterday's call Chee-Kai thankfully pinned me down regarding UBL code 
lists with foreign sources of enumerated values.  For example, country 
codes and currency codes.

Further to this, I asked Anne to add a "Foreign Source" column in the code 
list spreadsheet.  This is the URL of the XSD file that expresses the code 
list members.

When a foreign code list utilizes the <xsd:restriction> and 
<xsd:enumeration> method of expressing code list members, we can 
programmatically merge all of the members of that list into one of our UBL 
Placebo code list XSD files in order to make a UBL code list.

I've created such an XSLT stylesheet and I've tested it with 6 of the 
UNeDocs code list expressions:

   CountryCode        (239 entries)
   CurrencyCode       (175 entries)
   Incoterms          (13 entries)
   ModeOfTransport    (10 entries)
   UnitsOfMeasurement (1,120 entries)
   UNLocode           (35,060 entries!!)

Using only a dummy placebo file as a source, I've posted a ZIP file where 
this stylesheet can be used:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/3464/code-foreign-20030910-1540z.zip

Note that the stylesheet accesses the foreign XSD file on-the-fly without 
having to copy the foreign XSD file to a local machine.

A comment is added to indicate the date on which the foreign XSD file is 
accessed, and to indicate that the file is a synthesized result of working 
with a placebo definition.

An example of a synthesized result is below ... please ignore the fact that 
it says "StatusCode" as it will actually state the kind of code found in 
the placebo file, which Chee-Kai's process will produce.

Please let me know if you think there are any problems using this technique 
to quickly create UBL expressions of foreign code list contents.

Thanks!

...................... Ken

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--
This is a synthesized file created from merging a UBL code list placebo
delivery W3C Schema expression with the enumerations from a foreign code
list W3C Schema expression.

     Date of merge:            20030910
     URL of foreign code list: 
http://www.unece.org/etrades/unedocs/repository/codelists/xml/ModeOfTransport.xsd

Any hand-crafted edits to this document WILL BE LOST if this file is
recreated, so please make any required changes in the input files.

Note that all placebo file comments have been preserved, so any reference
below to this file being a "Placebo definition" is not true, this is,
indeed, a "Stock definition" of this code list.
-->
<!--
   This is the placebo code list definition that validates against all tokens.
--><xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; 
xmlns:cct="urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:CoreComponentTypes:1.0:0.81" 
xmlns:status="urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:codelist:statuscode:proposal" 
targetNamespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:codelist:statuscode:proposal" 
elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
    <xsd:import 
namespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:CoreComponentTypes:1.0:0.81" 
schemaLocation="CoreComponentTypes-codelist-proposal.xsd"/>
    <xsd:element name="StatusCode" type="status:StatusCodeType"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="StatusCodeType">
       <xsd:simpleContent>
          <xsd:restriction base="cct:CodeType">
             <xsd:enumeration value="0"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="1"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="2"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="3"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="4"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="5"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="6"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="7"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="8"/>
             <xsd:enumeration value="9"/>
          </xsd:restriction>
       </xsd:simpleContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>

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