Re: Proposed change in UBL 2.2 distribution regarding spreadsheet files

[Tim McGrath <tim.mcgrath@documentengineeringservices.com>]

This sound sensible to me.  It simplifies the package and makes the schema creation easier as well.


> On 25 Jun 2016, at 05:30, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> wrote:
> 
> Fellow UBL TC members,
> 
> In the UBL 2.0 and UBL 2.1 distributions the only pairs of .ods/.xls spreadsheet files were the individual pairs found in the mod/common/ and mod/maindoc/ subdirectories.  There was no pair of .ods/.xls spreadsheets for the entire model of all maindocs and the common library as we maintain as a Google spreadsheet.
> 
> I propose we add the one pair of .ods/.xls spreadsheets to the mod/ subdirectory and we abandon the mod/common/ and mod/maindoc/ subdirectories with 132 files (soon to be over 180 files).  Getting rid of 180 files will certainly reduce our file count.
> 
> Note that even though the maindoc worksheet names in Google are abbreviated on export (because of what I have reported as a bug for supporting only short 31-character worksheet names), it seems that OpenOffice and Excel allow very long worksheet names.  I will edit out the prefix and suffix of the model name for the sheet name so that "UBL-Catalogue-2.1" becomes "Catalogue", but I won't abbreviate other parts of the name in the distribution the way they need to be in Google.
> 
> Do you think our users will accept navigating only the one pair of large .ods/.xls spreadsheets of all components, or should I also create UBL 2.2 versions of the individual pairs of .ods/.xls for each maindoc as we did in previous distributions?
> 
> Thank you for your feedback on this.
> 
> . . . . . . . . Ken
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