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Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Best practice for adding information to UBL entities?
Item (1) that you mentioned is a guide within UBL. It makes some suggestions, and you might read it for background. I like your (2) suggestion better. I can't say if this is best or not best practice, but it seems the more appropriate way to preserve the use of UBL component schemas, obtain interoperability up to the UBL component blocks being used, and yet be able to manage some form of customization on your own without getting into the TC work etc. You'd need to use your own namespace obviously. If making a profile for small businesses out of UBL is seen as a form of customization, then you can read about an article by Stephen Green and Ken Holman at: "The Universal Business Language and the Needs of Small Business - Expressing Constraints in XML Documents to provide a Small Business Profile" http://www.itsc.org.sg/synthesis/2004/4_UBLandSmallBiz.pdf An intro guide together with a section on "The Implementation Challenge" by Tim McGrath can be found at: "Universal Business Language" http://www.itsc.org.sg/synthesis/2004/4_UBL.pdf Finally, I'll also point you to: "Tapping Standards from Nature - Atomic Model for Creating Electronic Message Schemas" http://www.itsc.org.sg/synthesis/2004/4_TappingStd.pdf which describes in detail what my comments on (2) are. (Apologies on this self-reference, but just that the article is my attempt to comment on (2) in much greater detail whenever there are such similar questions or discussions) Best Regards, Chin Chee-Kai SoftML Tel: +65-6820-2979 Fax: +65-6743-7875 Email: cheekai@SoftML.Net http://SoftML.Net/ On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Nelson, Laird wrote: >>I am in a situation where the simple UBL order-related documents and >>structures *almost* fit what I want to do. I have a couple of additional >>fields (that's it) that I need to capture in a UBL document. >> >>What is the best practice for doing this? >> >>I see two fundamental possibilities: >> >>1. Use some innate customization facility within UBL that I've >>overlooked >>2. Make my own schema for my own type of document that references >>elements and attributes from the UBL schema, which I will have to import in >>my schema. >> >>Am I missing anything obvious? >> >>Any pointers to pretty much anywhere related are heartily welcomed. >> >>Thank you, >>Laird >>
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