Minutes of the UBL SSC Call 31st March 2005

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Minutes of the UBL Software Sub-Committee Teleconference Call 31st March 2005
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Attendance:

Tony Coates
Stephen Green
David Kruppke
Sylvia Webb

Apologies:
Anne Hendry


Atlantic TC Call Report (SW/SG):
The Atlantic calls for the next three weeks would cover the NDR/1.1 Schema generation issues.
SSC members were requested to attend when possible. There may be scope for some to attend the
TC meetings rather than the SSC meetings but we would wait to see how necessary SSC meetings
will be in this three weeks - there may be some need for SSC to separately review what was 
decided by the TC.
SG would try to summarise the issues in a spreadsheet and this might help other groups
following the developments too.

Schema generation report (DK):
The likely completion date would be Monday or Tuesday. DK would send the Schemas with a 
covering email to the UBL list. The issue previously reported as over rule CTD20 is actually
broader than this rule and applies to all UBL 1.0 complexTypes which do not include the
qualifier in the name and may therefore be incorrect: Should these be changed in 1.1? 
Schema sets both with and without the change will be made to help the TC/NDR team consider
this.
The UBLAmount it seems is the only item which requires hand editing of the Edifix model, the 
rest of the data comes from spreadhseets which are imported prior to Schema generation. 
The process works in two stages - first the model spreadhseets are imported and the spreadhseet 
data is recast as the Edifix model then secondly (after any hand editing in the Edifix model 
which is necessary, e.g. for the UBLAmount SDT's supplememtary components) the Schemas are 
generated from the Edifix model with the data which was imported from the spreadsheets.

Codelists (TC):
Some of the issues being considered may lead to changes for UBL 2.0.  TC thought that any
changes for 1.1 would likely be small. SG pointed out that changes requested after 22nd
April would be at David's discretion as to whether they were implemented in 1.1 since they
might require more change to the Schema generator than would be feasible beyond 1st June.  
(see agreement note below)

Schema generation:
It was agreed that SSC's contingency, in case codelist decisions were not made by 22nd April,
for codelists would be to recreate every codelist Schema under the 1.1 namespace but not
to decide about the possibility of using XSD extension in them (where appropriate) until
the decisions were made by NDR Team/TC about VER8 and VER9.

Schedule for 1.1 Schema generation:
 
April 6/13/20    - Atlantic TC calls to come to agreements about the UBL 1.1 Schemas
22nd April 2005  - Deadline for TC/NDR decisions set (several away last week of April)
Last week April  - SG puts together a list of such decisions and rules
First week May   - SW creates a summarising spreadsheet list of actual tasks for development
Second week May  - DK starts development for Schema generation
1st June         - target date for UBL 1.1 Edifix Schema generator implementation


The meeting next week is scheduled for the usual time (all daylight hour time zones synchronised)