Re: [ubl-dev] Issues with currency codes that does not appear in theUBL

Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Issues with currency codes that does not appear in theUBL 2.0 schema

Best regards Mikkel

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:08 PM, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com> wrote:

At 2011-02-09 13:52 +0100, Mikkel Hippe Brun wrote:

We have found some currency codes that does not appear in the UBL 2.0 schema: [AZN, GGP, GHS, IMP, JEP, MGA, RON, RSD, SDG, SRD, TRY]

AZN 944 2 Azerbaijani manat Azerbaijan
GGP Guernsey pound (non-ISO)
GHS 936 2 Ghanaian cedi Ghana
IMP Isle of Man pound (non-ISO)
JEP Jersey pound (non-ISO)
MGA 969 0.69897...[2] Malagasy ariary Madagascar
RON 946 2 Romanian new leu Romania
RSD 941 2 Serbian dinar Serbia
SDG 938 2 Sudanese pound Sudan
SRD 968 2 Surinamese dollar Suriname
TRY 949 2 Turkish lira Turkey, Northern Cyprus

Any recommendations on how to handle these?

Yes, use the PRD1-UBL-2.1 CVA and genericode files:

XML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd1-UBL-2.1/cva/UBL-DefaultDTQ-2.1.cva
HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd1-UBL-2.1/cva/UBL-DefaultDTQ-2.1.html

The UBL 2.1 currency code genericode file is here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd1-UBL-2.1/cl/gc/default/CurrencyCode-2.1.gc

To look specifically at the rendering of that genericode file, look inside the HTML cited above and you see:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd1-UBL-2.1/cva/UBL-DefaultDTQ-2.1.html#d11e1

As for GGP, IMP and JEP, which are not in that list, you need to use a private currency code list and express the union of the UBL code list and your private list.

Actually, I like the idea of the UBL committee creating a supplementary code list genericode file that includes those codes, and we could build that into the UBL 2.1 release. If you need these codes, then likely others would need those codes.

In order to create that list, I would need some official citation of an enumeration of supplementary currency values that would include GGP, IMP and JEP ... does such an "official" enumeration exist anywhere?

In UBL 2.1 PRD 1 and PRD 2, all currency values are validated with a union of the UBL 2.0 currency codes and the UBL 2.1 currency codes (this allows you to handle both the old currency code for the Turkish Lira and the new currency code for the Turkish Lira at the same time).

I might be able to squeeze the new supplementary code list into PRD 2 but I could reliably put them into PRD 3.

I suggest you submit a formal comment to the UBL committee citing an enumeration of supplementary currency code values (preferably existing but you could create such an enumeration yourself) asking the committee to consider building in support for these in a release as soon as possible. I'll pick it up from there and explain the situation to the TC.

But until that becomes "official", you merely express the codes yourselves in a genericode file and you modify the CVA file to express the union of three lists: UBL 2.0, UBL 2.1 and your private supplementary list. With that CVA file you create the replacement XSLT validation using this free tool:

http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/#cva2sch

And the stylesheets for rendering the CVA and genericode files you create are found here:

http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/#codess

I hope this helps.

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

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