RE: Getting Back to Basics - How to describe Dates and Times andEvents?

[Devendra Tripathi <tripathi@vidyaweb.com>]

I like it too. I think for every given leaf data type, specifying this kind
of syntax is preferable. It differently is very coincise.

Regards,

Devendra Tripathi
VidyaWeb, Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Bryan [mailto:mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:36 AM
> To: William J. Kammerer; ebXML Core
> Subject: Re: Getting Back to Basics - How to describe Dates and Times
> andEvents?
>
>
> William suggested:
>
> > <docRef>
> >   <docType>Invoice</docType>       (required)
> >   <docNum>ABC-12345</docNum>       (required)
> > </docRef>
>
> I would prefer the much simpler
>
> <docRef docType="http://www.ebXML.org/Messages/Invoice">ABC-12345</docRef>
>
> Note two things about this example:
>
> 1) There is only a single element, with no substructure
>
> 2) The element references a URI that uniquely identifies the type. This
> value is neither an uninterpretable code or a language specific
> representation. It is simply a pointer to an information resource which is
> already stored in an ebXML registry.
>
> Martin Bryan
>
>
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