Nice to see UBL getting (more) seriously useful product support

["Stephen Green" <stephen_green@seventhproject.co.uk>]

Greetings UBL developers et al,

Very nice to see UBL in XML Spy 2006 and Map Force 2006 today.
Many thanks Altova. Not trying to advertise here - just enthusing at
this great help in supporting this open business e-procurement XML 
standard and enabling developers to provide support for such almost
out-of-the-box. As a developer I was particularly delighted to see how
easily I could create the beginnings of a mapping from a UBL 1.0
Invoice to another industry standard invoice in literally seconds with
nothing more than the standard version of Map Force 2006, a sample
of a UBL invoice and a copy of the schema for the other invoice. 
A cause for celebration, I think. Of course there's much more to full
adoption and incorporation of UBL than that (all the trading agreement
stuff and back-office integration included) but this is, I think, a great
help indeed and, I very much hope, a help to find other trading partners
able to support UBL if they have bespoke systems or the like. That could
be of great economical significance to an organisation, I would hope.

I hear that support in other tools from other vendors is coming soon too.

All the best

Stephen Green