Re: Jon Bosak's suggestion that xCBL be adopted as the ebXML BusinessDocument framework

["William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@foresightcorp.com>]

Arofan Gregory suspects "that many initial attempts [at automatic
generation of schemas] will share the failings of attempts to
automatically translate the EDIFACT and X12 standards into XML: they
abandon many of the best features of the new syntax in order to
accommodate the old."

What's this I hear about the Germans trying to get their XML EDI wrapper
solution on the fast-track to becoming an ISO standard?  I have it on
good sources - namely, some German guy - who alerted me to
http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nbue/nbue3/nbueaa3/aktuelles.html.  A
draft of the German proposal, DIN standard 16557-4, is available at
http://forum.afnor.fr/afnor/WORK/AFNOR/GPN2/XMLEDI/PUBLIC/dr00.htm. If
this EDIFACT wrapper technique becomes an ISO standard, is there
pressure on us to use it for ebXML?

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