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

[David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>]

Hi Stephen. Thank you for this. I tend to work on a mac or unix most of 
the time. BBEdit is my favorite text editor so use it for almost 
everything on the mac - so I keep it pretty simple. I pretty much use 
unix tools on command line or write a python package for anything else I 
need. There are some really nice libraries these days for xml manipulation.

I am today becoming aware of the additional resources for ubl. I'll 
certainly take a look at free-ubl and the technical committee's progress 
report. Many thanks for pointing these out to me.

Regards
David

Stephen Green wrote:
> 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
>