Re: [ubl-dev] looking for practical examples

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2009-02-10 19:13 +0000, Stephen Green wrote:
>1. Create a new document called, say, Inventory - with your own
>namespace for the document but import the common schemas so
>you can make it almost the same as the UBL Catalogue - just with
>a new InventoryLine, like Ken says, which adds StockQuantity or
>something like that (and maybe a few more things like that). There
>are a few things to make the writing of the schema (like Ken, I too
>strongly recommend keeping to a schema - testing the messages
>that they are valid by the schema - at design stage at least). You
>will want the extra InventoryLine and somewhere to put it in the set
>of schemas. Maybe Ken has an opinion on whether to put this
>aggregate in the document schema (I guess that breaks the NDR,
>Ken) or whether to create not just a custom document schema but
>a 'common' schema too: If the latter then maybe both a basic and
>an aggregates common schema?

Precisely!  The following is a diagram from our training material 
that we delivered in Australia in January, and is now available as 
part of the latest edition of our "Practical Universal Business 
Language Deployment" book (published today!):

   http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/sales/Crane-UBLProfile/#schemasy

I'm proposing to the UBL TC that these diagrams be included in the 
customization guidelines.

>Those technical issues might seem overly detailed.

But I think the approach is sound, which is why it is included in our 
book and training material.

> > And if you can join the TC, bring in your new documents, and find others to
> > collaborate with in order to come up with flexible and useful 
> configurations
> > of those new documents, they might end up becoming UBL documents!

Which was the reasoning behind creating aggregate and basic schema 
fragments analogous to those of UBL so that the business objects can 
migrate into the common library if the UBL technical committee 
chooses to effect.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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