UNeDocs links

["Stephen Green" <stephen_green@seventhproject.co.uk>]

Hi folks,

 

I was asked to provide some links and background

information on UNeDocs and the like.

 

The main site for UNeDocs is

http://www.unece.org/etrades/unedocs/

 

On the site they have an interesting Web Services

-based sample (delta) service which provides an online

converter from a particular sample XML trade document

(I could not find a Schema but it appears to be the UNeDocs'

own XML format) to a pdf UNeDoc or an HTML version

which it e-mails to a user-supplied address.

 

The UK has a group SITPRO which runs a national UNeDocs

implementation project

 http://www.sitpro.org.uk/documents/unedocsuk.html

where a service is being developed to provide online input

to create WebElecTra XML documents and to present these

as UNeDocs. Best check with our Sue Probert or SITPRO

contacts mentioned on the site for further details about this

project.

 

The UNeDocs site notably hosts many of the codelists used

in EDIFACT EDI and, I believe, has an ongoing work in this

area.

 

Since I last looked at the site there seem to have been added

a few more Web Services providing various kinds of XML-based

conversions. Underlying these seems to be an XML format

/language being developed by UNeDocs for business documents.

 

The potential overlap with UBL's work is obvious and has been

pointed out as we have shown this interest in Gap-analysis.

The primary purpose of the analysis would be not so much to

look at the XML business document language but to look at the

eDocs from a presentation perspective in terms of UN Layout Keys.

 

All the best

 

Stephen Green