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Subject: Re: [regrep] UK Govt regrep requirements
Paul Spencer wrote: >Sorry I have not been as active here as I would like. > Hi Paul, welcome back. >For those who don't >know, I advise various parts of the UK Government on XML. Unfortunately, >nobody here is currently prepared to spend money on registries, but I am >working on this. > Well the UK gov. could start with royalty free software: http://xml.coverpages.org/ebxmlrrV21Final1.html >I recently did some work for the MOD here, spending two days turning their >core schema (a collection of complex data types) into a repository of >fully-versioned types from which schemas can be automatically generated. >This is linked to their existing data dictionary through IDs and ASP code. > One could use the current ebXML Registry to store complex type definitions. One could also build a versioning mechanism on top of it. However, assembly of parts into whole schemas would require a registry client application today. Also the specs allow for client managed versioning and do not yet allow for automatic checkin/checkout (it has been proposed for v4). >Whilst not a long-term solution, this has clarified the benefits of a >registry to parts of the MOD and elsewhere in Government and flushed out >some additional requirements. I now have permission to present on this >project and to talk to the regrep TC about it. I am currently preparing a >presentation that must be complete by October 14th. As part of a telecon, I >would be happy to make this available and talk through it. > >What I would like to get out of this is: > >* does the existing reg/rep spec meet this requirement? > See above > >* if not, is the TC interested in this requirement for a future release? > Yes from my perspective. > >* Do any of the current implementations meet this requirement? > ebxmlrr meets all requirements except assembly, automatic checkin/checkout. We are planning tyo implement checkin/checkout in the next 4 months and use the experience to propose the normative feature for v4 specs. Again the link is: http://xml.coverpages.org/ebxmlrrV21Final1.html -- Farrukh
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