freeb-ubl takes the stage with ebBP!

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Way cool news of ebBP....Congratulations to Stephen, Farrukh and David.

XML Daily Newslink. Tuesday, 30 January 2007
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* SourceForge freeb-ubl Project Releases Implementers Kit for UBL
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SourceForge freeb-ubl Project Releases Implementers Kit for UBL
Staff, freeb-ubl Project Announcement

Project administrators from the SourceForge freeb-ubl project have
announced the first release of software (Version 1.0) supporting the
UBL, ebXML, and CAM specifications.  The software is freely available
for download and use under the freebXML License Version 2.0. The project
provides free, opens ource software for the Universal Business Language
and the ebXML framework including XSLT stylesheets to generate XForms
for creating, editing, and viewing UBL and ebXML documents. The
implementers' package for UBL and ebXML consists of out-of-the-box tools
to aid with use of the Universal Business Language (UBL) and the
standard framework for electronic business with XML, ebXML. Provided is
a set of XForms for UBL and ebXML and a set of XSLT stylesheets which can
be used to generate the XForms. They are specifically designed for the
UBL and ebXML business document types but they may or may not work with
other XML models depending on the schema design conventions used in the
XML.  XForms typically allow input of data and output of XML either in a
suitably  enabled browser or other devices. This version is provided as
a starting point  which may be adapted for production use. The XForms-
generating stylesheets cater for repeatable elements by generating these
for elements which have successive multiple occurances in the XML fed to
the XSLT stylesheet. This means that instances fed to the stylesheet in
a transformation (with an XSLT processor) may be tailored to match the
XForms requirements. Two customizations of UBL which are used as the
basis for the XForms in this package are provided, one for UBL 1.0 and
one for UBL 2.0. Therre is a set of XSLT stylesheets to convert instances
between UBL 1.0 SBS and UBL 2.0. SBS is the UBL Small Business Subset, a
customization of UBL for general use. Use SystML1 can be said to compliant
with the UBL 1.0 SBS committee specification if the documents sent with
it to another party do not require that more than the elements in the
SBS be properly processed by the receiving system. The package is
intended to grow over time but this version provides: (1) stylesheets
for transforming UBL 1.0 Small Business Subset (SBS) compliant instances
(electronic invoices, orders and the like) to their UBL 2.0 equivalents;
(2) CAM templates samples for contextual content validation and subset
business rules, for illustration; (3) XForms for simple input, editing
and viewing with an XForms reader of various UBL and ebXML-BP documents
-- note that this version focuses on the UBL procurement documents; (4)
generator (XSLT) to allow self-build creation of XForms additional to
those ready-made, which can be combined with jCAM engine; (5) UBL 1.0
and UBL 2.0 customizations (subsets) for general use with schema files
provided (procurement documents) and matching CAM templates; (6) atomic,
modular ebXML Business Process (ebXML-BP 2.0) definitions for these
documents.

http://xml.coverpages.org/freeb-ubl-Announce.html
See also UBL references: http://xml.coverpages.org/ubl.html