hello all, i have just started digging into a big helping of UBL. all good so far. it became apparent that there is a great source of CCTS (Core Component Technical Specification: see ebXML), i should say Core Component, stuff here. i am yet to gather appropriate material for the "Data-Dictionary", and think some good sources are in UBL. but i want/NEED more of the same, qualifiers, representation term, root terms, and alike. yes i have the EDIFACT dictionairies, do i have to chop that up? is there another source of rudimentary business vocabulary. will UBL be sufficient for a prototype. another question is, i was perving through UBL, looking at the spreadsheets for just such data, and noticed that some elements had an underscore prefix ( "_"). what does that mean. also, i had the answer but cant find the source any more, when you have a qualifier->root term qualifier->root term, relationship (like customer. account. number), i notice they have the term name, followed immediately by a period, a space and then the next term, period, and so on. now i know that is the presecribed depiction, what is the source for that specification. (ISO-11179 ?:) and if i have not asked for enough for one session, whats with that gap before a period, do we have to parse this "space" char and stuff out of the model, depending on your processing requirements (as per application) to deal with it. what did he just ask? ok, i have "customer. account. number", now that is meaningful to others who know the spec, and how to use it. but besdides its semantic meaning, it is useless like that. so i chop it up, parse it, extract out customeraccountnumber, and see if i have that in my repository. well i dont know about you, but thats what i am thinking of doing, or should i leave it like that and look for exact matches on the original space delimited string "customer. account. number". whats with the "space" charactor between it all anyhow? just convention ? thanks for your answers in advance. dean hemopo auckland, new zealand The ebxml-dev list is sponsored by OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/>
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