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Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Re: Online UBL validator?
Thanks Jon, fortunately, I'm more thick skinned than most crocodiles :-) Quoting jon.bosak@sun.com: > [david.lyon@computergrid.net:] > > | We are in the middle of producing a UBL validator/testpad so we > | haven't made it publicly available yet. > | > | It's written in Perl and does a wide variety of tests on > | documents. The basic idea is that it would be able to scrutinise a > | trading partners documents for compliance to the specifications. > | > | Our plan is to release the tool as shareware in the next month or > | so. > > David, > > This is exactly the kind of tool we need to make UBL practical, > and I'm glad to see the ubl-dev list beginning to function as a > place for sharing this sort of information. As your examples > show, real-life applications need to do a lot of "business > validation" beyond the "schema validation" provided by the UBL > schemas. It will be interesting to see the various approaches > that emerge to accomplish this. > > | If anything, UBL needs way more tools from way more people than > | it has. > > I completely agree. The more, the better. > > | and I sometimes get the impression that there is a lot of > | negative encouragement given to anybody outside of the > | oasis banner, as if to say, leave it to the big boys, we'll > | take care of it. Whatever.... > > Please don't take the comments of any particular OASIS participant > as reflecting the organization as a whole. OASIS has one of the > least hierarchical organizational structures of any major > standards body, and no chair of an OASIS TC speaks for any other > TC. I can assure you as the chair of the UBL TC that we are > wholeheartedly supportive of efforts such as yours, and I applaud > the shareware approach you're planning to adopt for distribution > of your product. > > | UBL and ebxml is struggling... can't see why.... > > UBL and ebXML are both continuing to steadily gain traction in the > face of heavy opposition from certain Very Large American Software > Companies. Those of us who were privileged to watch the early > "grass roots" stages of Web adoption can see some basic > similarities here. Just as in the case of the web, homegrown > products such as yours will play an essential role in deploying > these user-oriented technologies. Keep up the good work! > > Jon > > -------------------------------------------------------
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