RE: [egov] HK Govt XML Guide finalized

["CRAWFORD, Mark" <MCRAWFORD@lmi.org>]

The HK guide is a great example of a government agency using broad, cross-industry voluntary consensus standards to establish public sector policy. As you read the  guide, you may also want to look at some of the VCS source material - UBL Release 1.0, UBL Naming and Design Rules, and ebXML Core Components to name but three.  We are also finalizing a comparable schema best practices document for the GSA that uses these same references, as well as the HK document, and contains similar approaches.  

 
Mark Crawford 
Research Fellow - LMI XML Lead 
W3C Advisory Committee, OASIS, RosettaNet Representative 
Vice Chair - OASIS UBL TC & Chair Naming and Design Rules Subcommittee 
Chair - UN/CEFACT XML Syntax Working Group 
Editor - UN/CEFACT Core Components 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov [mailto:Diane.Lewis@usdoj.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:19 AM
> To: 'ytlee@cecid.hku.hk'
> Cc: 'egov@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: RE: [egov] HK Govt XML Guide finalized
> 
> 
> Exciting news... 
> with your permission i will share your links on the egov 
> focus area site. 
> Diane Lewis
> Washington, DC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ytlee@cecid.hku.hk [mailto:ytlee@cecid.hku.hk]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:52 PM
> Cc: egov@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [egov] HK Govt XML Guide finalized
> Importance: Low
> 
> 
> Dear eGov TC,
> 
> The Hong Kong SAR Government has finalized the XML Schema Design and 
> Management Guide V1.0. Most of the changes on the draft are 
> clarifications. On the other hand, a new type of entity called 
> Externally Defined Entity is added to the schema design 
> methodology for 
> importing and associating external schemas to encode data elements, 
> which are already well defined in some technical and indsutry 
> standards. 
> For example, one can import the W3C XML Signature schema and 
> create an 
> Externally Defined Entity to encode a digital signature which 
> is defined 
> by the external XML Signature schema. Another example is: one can use 
> XHTML to specify the product description by creating an Externally 
> Defined Entity associated with the XHTML schema.
> 
> HKSARG XML Schema Design and Management Guide is available at:
> 
> http://www.itsd.gov.hk/itsd/english/infra/eif.htm
> 
> Besides, our Government has also set up a Central Registry to 
> manage our 
> Common Schemas at:
> 
> http://www.xml.gov.hk
> 
> At the moment, the Registry is still quite primitive. It will 
> potentially be revamped in future when there is a stronger demand in 
> using the Registry, e.g. more Common Schemas to be managed, 
> and more XML 
> projects to be shared among agencies.
> 
> Please feel free to give us comment to improve our work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas Lee
> 
> Chief Technology Officer
> Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development
> The University of Hong Kong
> http://www.cecid.hku.hk
> 
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