RE: [ubl-ndrsc] Rule: 102 Empty

["Jim Wilson" <jim.wilson@kcx.com>]

Although I've contributed next to nothing to UBL, I do seem to recall a
discussion around this that is easily understood in the form of an
example (totally contrived) that would violate the rule:

"The CustomerID element may have the optional attribute customerIDType.
If that optional attribute is missing, then the customer ID is a DUNS
number."

(Yes, I'm aware of W3C XML Schema support for defaults, but that's
beside the point and probably not relevant at all given that the rule is
not stated in the context of XML Schemas.)

Regards,
Jim Wilson

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony B. Coates [mailto:abcoates@londonmarketsystems.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:26 PM
To: UBL-NDR
Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Rule: 102 Empty


** Reply to message from "Lisa-Aeon" <lseaburg@aeon-llc.com> on Tue, 15
Jul
2003 10:05:03 -0500

> [R 102]  The absence of a construct or data MUST NOT carry meaning.

I object to this rule on the basis that it seems unprovable.  How does
one
guarantee that the absence of something cannot never imply something
meaningful?  I suspect that the idea behind this was something like
"absence of
an element should not be used to imply that the element has a null
value", or
something like that.  Can someone who was around for the creation of
this rule
comment on what the idea behind it was?  Thanks,

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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