Re: [ebxml-msg-comment] ebXML 'Acknowledgement' vs 'Acknowledgment'

[Andrew.Mulholland@mincom.com]

Gait, Dale, Dave - thanks for your responses!

Gait - I agree with your assessment for ebBPSS - ie that '
ReceiptAcknowledgement' and 'AcceptanceAcknowledgement' are the correct 
spelling since that's what's in the XSD. However, I'm not so sure about 
your ebMS coment. You refer to section 8.6 and line 2502 of the ebms.pdf 
which uses the spelling without the 'e'. The note immediately above the 
schema sample on line 2355 states that where there are inconsistencies 
between the spec and the schema then the spec prevails. However, the spec 
is sufficiently ambiguous (refer lines 1138, 1141, 1143, 1172, 1173, 1175, 
2501 which all have different spelling of the same 'Acknowledgement 
element') to warrant the clarification.

Emails from all three of you seem to indicate that the XSD prevails though 
and that the spelling should be 'AcceptanceAcknowledgement' and 
'ReceiptAcknowledgement' so we will use this spelling.

Dale - I will post this to the ebBPSS list as well.

Dave - I appreciate your offer to table this at the ebXML-CORE TC meeting.

Thanks
Andy





Gait Boxman <gait.boxman@tie.nl> 
20/02/2008 05:09 PM

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Re: [ebxml-msg-comment] ebXML 'Acknowledgement' vs 'Acknowledgment'






Hi Andrew,

not being a native English speaker myself I'll refrain from the spelling 
war between UK and US.
However, in terms of what is right in the XML documents, the answer is 
fairly simple:
whatever the governing (normative)  XSD or DTD says it is.

For ebMS, that means the proper spelling is Acknowledgment (see section 
8.6 and line 2502 of the ebms.pdf)
For ebBPSS, the proper spellings are: ReceiptAcknowledgement and 
AcceptanceAcknowledgement (line 3045 and 3149 of the ebbpss.pdf, the 
ebbp-2.0.4.xsd appears to concur)

Deviation will lead to non-conformance and non-interoperability.

kind regards,
Gait Boxman

Andrew.Mulholland@mincom.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to bring to your attention an anomaly between the ebMS/ebBPSS 
> specifications and the ebXML-bp XSD regarding the spelling of 
> 'Acknowledgement'. The discreppancy has come to our attenton during an 
> ebXML implementation with a trading partner, in particular between 
> spelling of the following message types:
>
> 'ReceiptAcknowledgement' versus 'ReceiptAcknowledgment'
> 'AcceptanceAcknowledgement' versus 'ReceiptAcknowledgment'
>
> The ebBPSS and ebMS specifications contain references to both spellings 
> throughout, which I believe is the source of the anomaly. This includes 
> general mention as well as embedded XML examples. However, the XSD only 
> contains the spelling 'Acknowledgement' (ie with the 'e').
>
> I would like to obtain your ruling on which spelling is correct. My 
> opinion is that the XSD is the governing document and hence the spelling 

> with the 'e' is correct. I would also suggest that future versions of 
the 
> ebMS and ebBPSS specifications are updated for consistency.
>
> Reference docs:
>
> http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebBPSS.pdf
> http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebMS.pdf
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-bp/2.0.4/OS/schema/ebbp-2.0.4.xsd
>
>
> Thanks
> Andy Mulholland
>
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