WD7 questions regarding schema fragments

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

Hi folks!

Three things have come to my attention with WD7.

(1) The namespaces declared in the WD7 schemas read as follows:

   targetNamespace="urn:oasis:names:draft:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-2.0 WD7"

... as a result we cannot work with test 
instances ... I believe according to the namespace should be:

   targetNamespace="urn:oasis:names:draft:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-2"

... as indicated line 852 of the 2006-06-28 NDR.

Plus the space in the actual file names produced 
is really messing up some of my environment 
issues where I'm not expecting spaces in file 
names ... I find I cannot work easily with WD7 at 
all, nor will they work will in the student exercise environments.

Note to NDR editors: that line 852 actually has a 
typo in that the colon after "Invoice" does not belong.

(2) What is the function of the 
"common/CCTS_CCT_SchemaModule-2.0 WD7.xsd" schema 
fragment?  From what I can tell none of the 
schema fragments imports this module (nor was 
this the case in earlier drafts).  Looking inside 
it defines types like AmountType:

    <xsd:complexType name="AmountType">
       <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation xml:lang="en">
             <ccts:UniqueID>UNDT000001</ccts:UniqueID>
             <ccts:CategoryCode>CCT</ccts:CategoryCode>
             <ccts:DictionaryEntryName>Amount. Type</ccts:DictionaryEntryName>
             <ccts:VersionID>1.0</ccts:VersionID>
             <ccts:Definition>A number of 
monetary units specified in a currency where the 
unit of the currency is explicit or implied.</ccts:Definition>
             <ccts:RepresentationTermName>Amount</ccts:RepresentationTermName>
             <ccts:PrimitiveType>decimal</ccts:PrimitiveType>
          </xsd:documentation>
       </xsd:annotation>
       <xsd:simpleContent>
          <xsd:extension base="xsd:decimal">
          ...

Yet, I see that similar types are declared in UnqualifiedDataTypes:

    <xsd:complexType name="AmountType">
       <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation xml:lang="en">
             <ccts:UniqueID>UDT000001</ccts:UniqueID>
             <ccts:CategoryCode>UDT</ccts:CategoryCode>
             <ccts:DictionaryEntryName>Amount. Type</ccts:DictionaryEntryName>
             <ccts:VersionID>1.0</ccts:VersionID>
             <ccts:Definition>A number of 
monetary units specified in a currency where the 
unit of the currency is explicit or implied.</ccts:Definition>
             <ccts:RepresentationTermName>Amount</ccts:RepresentationTermName>
             <ccts:PrimitiveType>decimal</ccts:PrimitiveType>
             <xsd:BuiltinType>decimal</xsd:BuiltinType>
          </xsd:documentation>
       </xsd:annotation>
       <xsd:simpleContent>
          <xsd:extension base="xsd:decimal">
          ...

I could not reconcile the presence of both of 
these schema fragments to my students ... why do 
we have the CCTS_CCT_SchemaModule fragment if it isn't being used anywhere?

(3) The CCTS namespace for documenting the 
constructs has been different between the 
CCTS-based schema fragments and the UBL-based 
schema fragments ... for example, in the latest the CCTS schemas have:

   xmlns:ccts="urn:un:unece:uncefact:documentation:2.0 WD7"
   ...
          <xsd:documentation xml:lang="en">
             <ccts:UniqueID>UDT000001</ccts:UniqueID>
             <ccts:CategoryCode>UDT</ccts:CategoryCode>
             <ccts:DictionaryEntryName>Amount. Type</ccts:DictionaryEntryName>
             <ccts:VersionID>1.0</ccts:VersionID>

while the UBL constructs have:

   xmlns:ccts="urn:oasis:names:draft:ubl:schema:xsd:CoreComponentParameters-2.0 
WD7"
   ...
       <xsd:documentation>
         <ccts:Component>
           <ccts:DictionaryEntryName>Allowance 
Charge Reason_ Code. Type</ccts:DictionaryEntryName>
           <ccts:Version>2.0 WD7</ccts:Version>

I reminded my students that there is no 
standardization of namespace prefixes in XML ... 
they can be anything at all as what is important 
is the namespace URI and not the namespace prefix.

But I could not justify to the students why we 
have different namespaces for the same prefix for 
two fragments that appear to be doing the same 
thing, especially when the element names are 
shared between the two namespace URI 
strings.  This, too, has been around in previous versions.


Thanks for any guidance you can provide!

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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