Re: [ubl-lcsc] UBL Schema 1.0-alpha draft-8

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

At 2003-10-03 20:19 -0700, jon.bosak@sun.com wrote:
>| If we can find an unencumbered *source* for the unencumbered ISO
>| codes, then the issue I raised in my note is not relevant.  But,
>| the ISO has country codes in XML (fine, no problem there, I tested
>| my stylesheet and it works), but the other codes are in Word .doc
>| and HTML files.
>|
>| Does anyone know of unencumbered expressions of the codes in XML
>| format?
>
>As long as we can use the codes (and I think we're now all in
>agreement on that),

Yes, I agree we can use the codes unencumbered.

>the source would appear to be immaterial.

Okay ... though the wording in clause (2a) cited earlier by Chee-Kai might 
lead one to conclude we could not use any file on the UN/ECE site as a 
machine-legible source for the expression of the codes.

>I
>think what you need is simply to have the codes extracted from the
>documents so that someone can xmlify them.  Right?

Yes, and the stylesheet that I uploaded to the document repository can do 
any of the following, based on command line parameters:

   (1) extract codes from an external W3C XSD enumeration (works with
       the UN/ECE files)

   (2) extract codes from an arbitrary XML vocabulary (works with the
       ISO 3166 XML file, or any other regularly-structured XML vocabulary)

   (3) write a generic non-UBL prototypical W3C XSD enumeration (can be used
       to dissociate a source file of codes from the set of codes)

   (4) write a UBL stock W3C XSD enumeration utilizing a placebo enumeration
       as a template (what we eventually use to make files for the delivery)

So ... I can't think of anything more that we need except for unencumbered 
XML expressions of the coded values.  Someone could even write such an XML 
file by hand using a two-element-type vocabulary (as I show in the included 
test files) and we will be "good to go".

I'm at the point where I will have to leave the tool in someone else's 
hands while my focus is drawn elsewhere, though as I said if any 
maintenance is needed on the stylesheet I would be pleased to address it as 
quickly as I can.

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

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