Re: [ubl-dev] Getting started with UBL-2.0

["Stephen Green" <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

On 05/06/07, David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephan. Many thanks for your reply. Did you mean specific tools for
> creating derivative schemas in UBL or a more general tool for XML
> Schemas like XMLSpy.
>
> >

Hi David

I use 'XML Spy', sometimes 'Stylus Studio' and frequently a text editor with
a bit more than the basic functions 'EditPad Pro' (for its multiple
line find and
replace). These get me by OK. I believe others use the more UBL-specific
tools like those on the UBL support page
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-ssc
I tend to be removing rather than adding types and elements to produce
first subsetted schemas for my needs (& based on a lot of consultation) -
http://www.systml.co.uk/xml/systml2/systml2.zip
then generating XML with XML Spy, then generating things like XForms
from the XML instances ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xslt4xforms/ ,
http://www.systml.co.uk/content/view/43/54/). It takes a lot of care though.
I put a lot of the results of this work into a combined package called
'freeb-ubl' and, together with our CAM expert, David RR Webber, who kindly
added some CAM templates which show how to use OASIS standard CAM
to help with all this, we donated it to the freebXML Software Foundation and
published it on sourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeb-ubl/ .

Sounds like you are getting a good handle on things. You might be interested
to see the discussion of the UBL TC's in progress customization methodology
too at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200706/msg00002.html

All the best

-- 
Stephen Green

Partner
SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk
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