Re: [ubl-fpsc] Fwd: RE: UBL 0p70 comment "c.1" regarding rendering of UBL instances

[Dan Vint <dvint@acord.org>]

At 07:43 PM 4/12/2003 -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote:
>Many businesses care about the way their business documents look and go to 
>a lot of trouble employing graphic artists and designers to make sure that 
>their paper documents present the image they want. What this means for 
>UBL, is that the creater of an XML Document might want to be able to 
>suggest to a recipient that a particular stylesheet be used to view the 
>document that makes the document viewable in the way the creater intended.
>
>So, if the sender of a document wants to associate a stylesheet with a 
>business document, then they need a way of doing it. This is why I 
>suggested adding in an optional stylesheet reference into each UBL 
>document so that that the creater of the document can *suggest* the 
>stylesheet to use to render the document into viewable form.

Nothing special is really needed for this. The W3C already beat you to this 
- they wrote a specification that created a PI (processing instruction) for 
this purpose.

With that said, SOAP has a restriction on the use of PI's in the body of 
the message - so maybe there is a need for something.

..dan