RE: [ubl-ndrsc] Instance Design for NDR document

["GLACE, Jessica" <JGLACE@lmi.org>]

Title: RE: [ubl-ndrsc] Instance Design for NDR document

1. Should there be standard UBL documentation found in an Instance?
2. Does it matter what the Instance Namespace prefix is for the UBL namespace? Should we recommend or enforce the prefix for the instance?

3. This is where the empty element idea would be addressed as well. Is it fine that an instance just have no element at all when its optional or do we need to add the nil att and if we do is nil required or optional?

The point of the above is not to provide an all-inclusive list of issues, but to try and highlight my point.  We are developing a set of design rules for a standard.  Our design rules need to ensure that different developers can use them to create cookie cutter 80/20 UBL schemas. Otherwise we will never have the look and feel of a standard. 

For instance documents against the 80/20 schemas, they must also have the same look and feel of a standard - regardless of how they are being processed or reviewed.

Regards,
Jessica

-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Gutentag [mailto:eduardo.gutentag@sun.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:55 PM
To: GLACE, Jessica
Cc: ubl-ndrsc@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Instance Design for NDR document

I think I'm missing something here.  In what way could an instance that conforms to an UBL schema *not* be
UBL conforming? And if there is no such way, what more is there to say about instances?

"GLACE, Jessica" wrote:

>
>
> Is NDR generating rules only for UBL Schema Design or are we interested in "UBL conforming" Instances as well? If it's for

> both, should we have 2 sections in the NDR document- First section for Schemas and a Second section for Instances?
>
> Kind regards,
> Jessica
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mavis Cournane [mailto:mavis.cournane@cognitran.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 4:16 AM
> To: ubl-ndrsc@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [ubl-ndrsc] Audiences for NDR document
>
> Dear all
> one of the updates we suggested making to the NDR draft 15 document is:
>
>     We need to say who the audiences are for this document, and
>       segregate the rules and guidelines per audience (e.g. the perl
>       script vs. people writing external modules).  Ray Seddigh had
>       commented on this in Minneapolis, and would be a good source of
>       suggestions.
>
> I would like us to do some thinking about this on today's call as part of our
> NDR document review so that I can begin putting something together.
>
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