Re: [ebxml-bp] Proposal for minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes to Attachment

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Keisuke,

Very nice article on the Japanese use of ebXML.

You may also be interested in the following on the benefits of ebXML
which I believes shares many of your conclusions.

 http://ebxmlbook.com/Benefits%20of%20ebXML.pdf

Thanks, DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <YANO Keisuke ($BLpLn7<2p(B) <yano@jp.fujitsu.com>)>
To: <ebxml-bp@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: [ebxml-bp] Proposal for minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes to
Attachment


> ebBP TC members,
>
> I would like to propose to add the minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes
> to the Attachment element of BPSS.  An example is following:
>
>     <Attachment name="SpecificationAttachment"
>         businessDocument="BD:SpecAttachment" businessDocumentIDRef="att"
>         mimeType="application/pdf"
>         minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="5"/>  <!-- here -->
>
> These attributes are similar to the same name attributes of the
> Constituent element of ebXML CPPA.  The XML schema fragment for these
> attributes in the Attachment element definition may be following.
>
>     <xsd:attribute name="minOccurs" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"/>
>     <xsd:attribute name="maxOccurs" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"/>
>
> This proposal is based on the requirement of the ECALGA business
> process specifications developed by JEITA [1].  They need to specify
> that an attachment is optional (i.e., minOccurs="0" and
> maxOccurs="1").  Also, it is likely that they will want to specify
> that the number of attachments is arbitrary in the future.
>
> FYI, ECALGA is a B2B electronic commerce specification that adopts
> BPSS, CPA, and ebMS for electronics and IT industries.  You might be
> insterested in my article [2] on JEITA's interoperability test using
> ebXML.
>
> [1] Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association,
>     http://ec.jeita.or.jp/
> [2] Original Japanese version:
>      http://xml.fujitsu.com/jp/column/frontline/ebxml_2.html
>     English translation:
>
http://www.fujitsu.com/services/solutions/xml/frontline/XML_ebxml2.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Yano Keisuke
>