Naming and Design Rules for UBL schema development

[Hendry <ahendry@pacbell.net>]

Noticing several discussions over the past few weeks in both the Energy 
Interop and EMIX TCs relating to enabling evolution, consistency, and 
extensibility of the standard being developed, I thought it might be 
helpful for you to see how UBL approached some of these issues.  The UBL 
Naming and Design rules have been through multiple iterations/versions 
and the 2.0 version is now available for public review.  The NDRs 
specify the rules for naming conventions and schema design.  By just 
looking at the checklist at the end of the document (which is a summary 
of the rules without the explanatory text that makes up the rest of the 
document) you can get an idea of the areas that were considered 
important to address not only to support evolution of the standard, but 
also to enable the development of tools for validation.  You will find 
links to the NDRs and supporting information in the email at

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200911/msg00014.html

Best,
Anne