Fwd: [ubl-dev] [ANNC] XML-Spreadsheet for UBL v1.0 IDD draft Available

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

Hi Chee-Kai

Congratulations on all this. Looks very useful. Personally  :-)   I
think the XML
Spreadsheet format you use is quite neat, simple and elegant - fairly optimal.

Just one question (for now): Do you know what tools might be able to read the
various encodings of the IDD XML spreadsheet? I can't find any that can read
several different character sets on the same page. I think I have the
right fonts
installed (though maybe I'm wrong) but the characters don't display no matter
which tool I use (IE, text editors, XML Spy...).

Anyway, excellent work - thanks for sharing it with us.

Best regards

Steve


2008/9/19 Chin Chee-Kai <cheekai@softml.net>:
> *2008 Sep 19*
>
> XML-Spreadsheet for the multilingual translation table work done in UBL v1.0
> IDD (International Data Dictionary) draft spreadsheet is now available.  The
> XML-Spreadsheet is an extremely simple XML format to convey as faithfully as
> possible the content and structure of original spreadsheets.  This allows
> all the power XML tools, utilities, processors, systems and knowledge to be
> used easily on the content of spreadsheets.
>
> This XML-Spreadsheet is generated based on the spreadsheet file
> wd-UBL-1(1).0-IDD-2.xls found in
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19299/wd-UBL-1.0-IDD-2.xls
>
> The spreadsheet contains extensive works by various people worldwide who
> made the translation table possible.  The aim of generating a corresponding
> XML-Spreadsheet format is, thus, to expose the exact content to more facets
> of usage so that the translation effort could be further leveraged in more
> applications and purposes.  By storing them in readily processable and
> referenceable XML-Spreadsheet format, it is possible to imagine a receiving
> XML processor not only validating an incoming UBL invoice, but also
> translates on-the-fly the corresponding terms into localized languages based
> on contents found in XML-Spreadsheet.  In effect, XML-Spreadsheet
> multilingual translation table has made it possible for various XML systems
> to become IDD-conversant!
>
> Possible uses of this XML-spreadsheet (especially for non-English user
> systems):
>    * Translate UBL schema terms on-the-fly
>    * Translate UBL instance terms within documents on-the-fly
>    * Use as accurate screen  labels for user-inputs in software and
> applications
>    * Use as help-text for user-input text labels
>    * Use as on-the-fly PDF translation for archival of incoming/outgoing UBL
> instances
>    * Use as linguistically localized  print-outs of  e-documents, such as
> Invoice, Order
>    * Others.
>
> All comments, suggestions, feedbacks, bugs, etc are most welcome!
>
>
> Chin Chee-Kai
>
> Multilingual XML-Spreadsheet for UBL v1.0 (Download):
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=238704&package_id=291961&release_id=627286
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ublish>
>
> XML-Spreadsheet Format Description:
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2257107&forum_id=863486
> <http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2257107&forum_id=863486>
>
> UBLish Project Site:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ublish
>
> UBLish Web Site:
> http://ublish.sourceforge.net/
>
> Kopio Project Site:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kopio
>
>