Re: [ubl] Code lists

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

Thanks for this, Steve, but you've talked about the naming of 
elements ... my question is about the naming of the data types since 
(theoretically) a given data type might be used in both an element 
and an attribute.

Would I came up with the same list of elements by your criteria as I 
would by criteria based solely on the data type?  Since we are 
validating both elements and attributes I thought it best to leverage 
the data type name and not the information item name.

And thanks for the quick feedback!

. . . . . Ken

At 2005-09-19 09:42 +0100, Stephen Green wrote:

>Ken wrote:
> >ACTION: Could someone please confirm that data types with the string
> >"Code" in their name are *all* and *only* those data types that are
> >based on code lists of any kind?  If not, then I'll need someone to
> >enumerate for me all of the data types based on code lists.
>
>Hi Ken,
>
>A better criterion would be '...Code' at the end of the element name (or
>'...CodeType' at the end of a complexType name). This would be sounder.
>Theoretically, though, an element with a Text datatype could be 
>called '...Code'
>- we weren't far away from this with 'Cost Code. Text' in UBL 2.0 which
>would, as far as I know, have resulted in element name 'CostCode'.
>It is more likely we'd have an identifier type with 'Code' in the name, like
>'CostCodeID'. As far as I know though there aren't yet any such names
>in UBL 2.0 and there definitely weren't in UBL 1.0.
>
>To summarize:
>
>The UBL naming rules mean that
>1. all Code datatype elements will have 'Code' at the end of the 
>element name.
>2. just a Text datatype element could have 'Code' at the end of the 
>element name.
>3. any element could have 'Code' in the middle of the element name.
>
>But in UBL 1.0 (and as far as I know, so far in UBL 2.0 - PB could 
>confirm this) only
>Code datatypes have 'Code' in the element name.
>
>All the best
>
>Steve
>
>
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