Re: [ubl] Information items in 2-prd2-cd minimal instances

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

At 2006-08-13 10:49 +0800, Tim McGrath wrote:
>i agree with sylvia but i think she is reading 
>too much into this.  what i see in ken's 
>documents is simply the "only mandatory" 
>items.  that is, an automatic generation of a 
>model that only contains the items flagged as mandatory in the schema.

Precisely.

>no business rules are used to guide this model 
>and as such it is fairly meaningless.  no-one 
>could use this model as-is.  consider the 
>waybill - it only decribes a shipment and no parties involved!

Does that mean that it doesn't have sufficient 
mandatory elements for a UBL document type?

>i suspect ken was seeing value in a "meets all 
>mandatory requirements" generic model for 
>minimum compliance checking. but i am think this 
>is more a technical objective than a business one.

Kind of ... but is there a business benefit 
enabled by the technical enabling of a 
transaction of core information upon which the receiver adds what is needed.

>in fact there is a danger here that this type of 
>model may become a target for compliance in 
>application interfaces.  i am not sure we want that.

I think it is worth discussing.

Thanks, Tim!

. . . . . . Ken

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