Re: SV: [ubl-dev] UBL Basics.. try "Productivity"....

[David Lyon <david.lyon@preisshare.net>]

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> "Basics" is conformance.   I don't see how more basic you can get.  
> One cannot discount namespaces as that is the basis of global 
> identification of information items in XML vocabularies.  This isn't 
> just me and my beliefs or the committee's beliefs ... it has long been 
> accepted that "basic XML" is defined by namespaces:
Sorry to object so strongly, but it isn't.....

Basics is getting the job done for the customer in a reasonable time and 
for a reasonable budget....

and moving up the "productivity-scale".....

Here, we're trying to get this price-relaying thing going... so that 
when a supplier changes the price on an item, new prices are 
recalculated and instantly relayed onto all existing clients so that 
they get the new price spreadsheets or files. The dealer just sets the 
markup level, and the movement of prices up and down goes from being a 
manual operation to an automatic thing.

We all must strive to justify our existence in the business world. 
Otherwise we get moved down the food-chain.

Basics are maintaining business efficiency/productivity and aiming for 
conformity.

In reality, if you say you want conformance, then everybody should stop 
working on UBL and just go buy and use office. Because that is what most 
of the business world has decided to use en-masse. I'm just calling a 
tree a tree and a carrot a carrot.

UBL is still quite quirky and maybe still in it's infancy. I think it 
has some way to go before it can demonstrate that it provides either 
minor or significant productivity improvements over conventional 
technologies that a Customer might already have access to today. Correct 
me if I'm wrong.

Regards

David