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Subject: Public review of OASIS Context/value association using genericode
Fellow CLR-Dev'ers, OASIS has opened a 60-day public review of the new context/value association for genericode file format: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/codelist/200910/msg00005.html Comments are most welcome and are sent to: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=codelist Code lists and identifier lists are examples of controlled vocabularies of values (e.g. currency codes, country codes, product identifiers, etc.) For some communities of users (e.g. those with business-oriented XML documents) the management of controlled vocabularies presents particular challenges for document modeling. While communities may standardize document structures, trading partners within the community have their own constraints that may change on an hourly basis yet must work within the community framework. List-level and value-level metadata for controlled vocabularies are managed using the OASIS genericode file format, published in 2007: http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode For data entry by the sender, the appropriate lists of values and mechanisms for disambiguation need to be well-defined for the proper semantics to be represented. For validation by the receiver, the same lists and disambiguation ensures the proper semantics are interpreted. That disambiguation is done through attributes or elements associated with the controlled vocabulary information items. Simple schema language enumerations are insufficient to the task of associating instance-level metadata and the extension and restriction of controlled vocabularies to meet business needs. Instance-level metadata for the application of controlled vocabularies to XML document structures is expressed using the OASIS context/value association using genericode specification being announced for public review. The members of the committee look forward to any comments you may have on the file format itself, sent through the formal OASIS channels (any comments on the validation or visualization or training cited below are to be sent to me privately please). Thank you! . . . . . . . . . . . Ken Chairman, OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee cc: CLR-Dev, UBL-Dev, XML-Dev p.s. A Schematron-based implementation of OASIS context/value association is freely available to experiment with or deploy these file formats for validation: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/index.htm#cva2sch Visualization stylesheets for these file formats are freely available: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/index.htm#codess p.p.s. A full-day hands-on training class on both these file formats is being commercially offered in Copenhagen this coming Tuesday, please see here for details: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/index.html#Crane200910CPH -- Upcoming: hands-on code list, UBL, XSLT, XQuery and XSL-FO classes in Copenhagen Denmark and Washington DC USA, October/November 2009 Interested in other classes? http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/c/i/ Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/c/ Training tools: Comprehensive interactive XSLT/XPath 1.0/2.0 video Video lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrNjJCh7Ppg&fmt=18 Video overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTiodiij6gE&fmt=18 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com Male Cancer Awareness Nov'07 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/c/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
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