Suggestion: party id type qualifier

["Pim van der Eijk" <pvde@sonnenglanz.net>]

Hello,

 

The Energy Interoperability schema has various types of party identifiers of type xs:string.

 

It is common in e-business schemas for Party Identifiers to have a "type" (or similar) attribute that allows the identifier to be typed.  Examples of this are UN/CEFACT XML business document schemas, Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0,  Open Application Group Integration Specification (OAGIS), the UN/CEFACT Standard Business Document Header (SBDH),  Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), Financial Product Markup Language (FML),  ebXML Messaging (ebMS) and Collaboration Protocol Profiles and Agreements (CPP/A).  An excerpt from a UBL document might look like:

 

<cac:BuyerCustomerParty>
  <cac:Party>
    <cac:PartyIdentification>
       <cbc:ID schemeID="urn:oasis:names:tc:ebcore:partyid-type:iso6523:0088"
        >4035811991021</cbc:ID>
    </cac:PartyIdentification>
  </cac:Party>
</cac:BuyerCustomerParty>

 

The "schemeID" attribute qualifies the buyer party identifier 4035811991021 as a GS1 Global Location Number (GLN) using the ebCore Party Identifier type syntax (http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebcore/PartyIdType/v1.0/).  The type specifies the identifier scheme from which the identifier value is taken.  A similar mechanism to qualify identifiers might be useful for Energy Interoperation. 

 

Pim