Re: [ubl-comment] Duplicated fields in Genericode file

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Thank you, David, for bringing this to the committee's attention!

At 2017-09-25 21:09 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> In the UBL 2.2 distribution ZIP file there is a file:-

I'm assuming you are referring to the development "putative release" 
recently posted, because I can find the problem you've reported in 
the files cited from my post here:

  https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201709/msg00042.html

Indeed, there are a number of entries with multiple description 
fields.  I can trace this to the source XML because there are 
multiple paragraphs in the Excel table cell for those Unit of Measure 
entries.  The code is triggering on the paragraphs, not on the cells.

> The description of Genericode does not specify what should happen when
> a columnref is duplicated in a row - should the values be concatenated
> or should the duplicate be ignored?

The duplicate should be reported as a bug to the programmer!  I feel 
sufficiently chastised, thank you.  You did the right thing by reporting it.

Accordingly, I will incorporate a two-stage validation of the 
generated genericode files:  the first pass will use the XSD schema, 
and I'll write a genericode set of Schematron assertions to confirm 
issues such as duplicate columns and absent required columns.  This 
should allow reviewers such as yourself to focus on the content and 
not the structure of the files.

Thank you, again, for your support of our work by taking the time to 
report this!  And it is timely so that I can get the fix in for our 
next public review.

. . . . . . . . Ken


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