Re: [ubl-dev] cXML Order Request to UBL Order

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

At 2009-07-07 17:59 +0100, Stephen Green wrote:
>I agree it would be good to see a wiki page for
>documenting all this kind of information.

I set out the following plan in March 2009 with OASIS but 
unfortunately the resource requirements at OASIS have put my requests 
lower down in priority.  I need OASIS to devise two bulk-uploading 
scripts to allow me to implement this:

Under the OASIS UBL document repository (for committee use):

   http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/

   A "/psi/" directory will contain 2000 XHTML pages, one for each
   dictionary entry name, which will be a permanent Public Subject
   Identifier (PSI) with all of the IDD definitions for each
   business information entity and all spreadsheet cell values.  It
   will serve as a permanent public URI associated with the semantic
   meaning of the construct.  This is suitable for Topic Map
   applications or for anyone who wants an unambiguous permanent URI
   associated with every element of the UBL specification.

Under the OASIS-sponsored UBL.XML.org site (for community use):

   http://ubl.xml.org/wiki/ubl-specifications

   This directory will contain 2000 wiki pages, one for each
   dictionary entry name, which will be a community location for
   discussion, examples, citations, anything at all contributed
   by members of the community.

There will be a link from the PSI page to the corresponding wiki page 
so that people can add their own information to augment the official 
semantics, and there will be a link from the wiki page to the PSI 
page so that people can find the official definitions while working 
on the community perspective of things.

I haven't seen any action from OASIS on this yet.  All I need from 
them are the bulk upload/revision mechanisms and the wiki page 
encoding conventions.  Then I'll write the stylesheets to synthesize 
all 4000 pages and their linkages.  Then I'll get them uploaded and 
tested.  Then I'll announce it for everyone to jump in and add their 
contributions.

So I hope UBL-Dev readers will have the patience to please hold off 
creating ad hoc reference pages until these "official" reference 
pages can be created.  Then we'll need everyone's help.

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


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