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

[David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>]

Hi Jon. Many thanks for this detailed response and for pointing to these 
resources. I am happy that UBL is stable so that I can work toward an 
integration into my applications. I'll be reading up on the work of the 
UBL Human Interface Subcommittee in the interim. Many thanks.

Regards,
David

jon.bosak@sun.com wrote:
> Just touching base for a second to respond to a couple of
> points....
> 
> [fairwinds@eastlink.ca:]
> 
> | In terms of representing my own items as a schema, I guess it
> | should be a combination of BIE plus my own customizaion - but when
> | it comes to the production of standard documents, they must
> | validate and conform to UBL-2.0.
> 
> If you're talking about extending any of the 31 document types
> provided by UBL 2.0 with extra information items, see Section
> B.3.3 of the UBL 2.0 Standard:
> 
>    http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.0/UBL-2.0.html#d0e3968
> 
>> Do you see any big changes to these entities in future?
> 
> No major updates to UBL will be made for at least the next two
> years.  There will be minor version releases during that time (the
> next would be UBL 2.1), but these by definition can only add new
> optional elements -- they can't remove any of the existing ones or
> change their meaning.  If the information elements you need really
> aren't accommodated by existing UBL constructs, and if they are
> useful outside of your particular application, we'd be interested
> to hear about them so that they can be considered for addition in
> 2.1.
> 
> | BTW, Has anyone been working on xsl for styling the standard
> | documents?
> 
> This falls within the scope of the UBL Human Interface
> Subcommittee:
> 
>    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-hisc
> 
> The big question here is which printed document formats to map to.
> In UBL 1.0, we created specific mappings between the eight UBL 1.0
> documents and the UN Layout Key, which for over thirty years has
> specified standard printed representations for basic trade
> documents.  Then HISC chair G. Ken Holman created XSLT stylesheets
> that will transform any conformant UBL 1.0 instance into either an
> HTML UNLK representation or (given appropriate XSL-FO formatting
> software) a PDF file.  Based on those stylesheets, Jacek Ambroziak
> contributed a Java application that will do the HTML conversion
> for free, and Visual Programming contributed a run-time version of
> their XSL-FO engine that will do the PDF conversion for free.  All
> this great stuff is linked to from the UBL 1.0 Legacy Page:
> 
>    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22571/legacy.htm
> 
> UBL 2.0, on the other hand, contains a number of document types
> that simply have no internationally standardized printed
> representation.  We're hoping for the contribution of
> quasi-standard versions of these documents (printed forms used
> within a particular industry or a particular region, for example)
> that could serve as targets.  People interested in helping out
> with this should contact the HISC chair
> (gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com) in a week or two when he gets back
> from vacation.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
> 
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