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Subject: Re: [ubl] Commodity code (was: Re: [ubl] Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 5|6 May 2008)
Hello Jon, about this codelist you are right, maybe we can just provide them an XSLT to transform their XML into genericode. > [roberto@javest.com:] > > | The hierarchy is important to group commodities, but it is fully > | listed to let the user select a commodity in a very precise way or > | more generally through its upper group. > > I understand; the system strongly resembles the one used in the > U.S. to code employment categories. But you end up with so many > codes that I wonder what advantage is gained by providing the code > list. At some point you end up with the equivalent of a code list > to check the validity of integers; you could do it, but there are > easier ways to check whether something is an integer than > providing an enumeration. > > | The taxonomy change every year, mainly to include new commodities > | and rarely to add a new group. The code list version MUST be > | specified when a value is used (NC 2008) > > This implies pretty strongly that we would have to issue an update > every year. As we're not organizationally constituted to stay in > existence forever, I don't think that this is something we should > be committing to do. I believe that it would be much better to > persuade the issuing authority to provide their annual update in > genericode. > > Jon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in > OASIS > at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > > -- * UBL Italian Localization SubCommittee (ITLSC), co-Chair * UBL Online Community editorial board member (ubl.xml.org) * Italian UBL Advisor * OASIS NEWS italian translator Roberto Cisternino mobile: +39 328 2148123 skype: roberto.cisternino.ubl-itlsc [UBL Technical Committee] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl [UBL Italian Localization Subcommittee] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-itlsc [Iniziativa UBL Italia] http://www.ubl-italia.org [UBL Support] (prevista migrazione su ubl.xml.org) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-ssc [UBL Online Community] (...in avviamento) http://ubl.xml.org [Gruppo Esperti UBL] (...in avviamento) http://www.ublguild.org/ [Free UBL Writer @ JAVEST] http://www.javest.com
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