Re: [ubl-hisc] Latest Input Spec progress

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

This looks good, Micah ... I have a few comments on the Python, perhaps 
others will as well.

  (1) - would the building of the record classes be done more easily from 
the XML using DOM or SAX instead of parsing the flat text?  I get the 
feeling that may have made the job more direct than recreating a structure 
from a string that was created from the structure.  Since it is working it 
doesn't have to change, but I'm curious why you didn't go directly to the 
structures.
  (2) - can the set of rules be split into a separate Python source file 
that is imported by this file ... or can that separate Python source file 
import this file, such that the collection of rules is practically the only 
thing in the file except for comments and necessary wrapper declarations 
and invocations?  That way we can point to the file and a lay person need 
not go through all of the Pythonese to get to the table of rule statements.

ATTENTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  We will soon (perhaps already?) need input 
from subject matter experts, rather than programmers ... can someone on 
HISC review the selections Micah has made in light of the semantics of the 
fields?

I suspect, however, that you will need to take these files and utilize them 
in building an interface so that what subject matter experts review is an 
actual form having interpreted your data.  This is what happened with the 
output specifications.  It was only when the output specs were accompanied 
with actual print-outs that subject matter experts were able to 
meaningfully comment on the specifications.

Thanks!

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

At 2005-04-12 15:35 -0700, Micah Dubinko wrote:
>Attached. As before, the script contains extensive comments. Below is the 
>generated output, which appears to be a complete description of UBLSBS as 
>described by the input XPath files.


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