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Subject: Containers?
Just got to thinking about the line items and the head issue/rules. I don't want to prolong the discussion but like several folks I'm a proponent of containers, but maybe not "generated" containers. It appears that ABIEs are containers that the business folks somehow deem important/worthy of being business objects. In John's email he mentioned the Line Items were not in a container and on today's call the indication was that the rules for having a "head" group separate from the "body" group was also going to be removed. Don't other people see an "order" being composed of something like this? <PurchaseOrder> <OrderDetails> Date Purchaser Shipping Address etc </OrderDetails> <Order> <Item> * sku color qty ordered part number desc price </item> </Order> </PurcahseOrder> Now I've written these as XML, but aren't these general concepts that you would talk about and work with normally? Those look like some of the containers we were trying to generate Head => OrderDetails and Container => Order. I haven't looked at the details but maybe someone is being to "strict" on the business data/library side and there are some more natural objects that would satisfy some of our qualms/feelings that something is wrong and still allow the Library folks to work with business data and not worry about XML details. In this case it isn't just an XML concern it feels like something is missing anyway. ..dan ------------------------------------------------------- Danny Vint ACORD ACORD 2 Blue Hill Plaza - 3rd Floor dvint@acord.org Pearl River, NY 10965 http://www.acord.org Voice:510:522-4703 HQ Phone: 845.620.1700 FAX: 801-749-3229
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