I misspoke. The facets are available,
but some were under the impression that 'Format' was a facet of these types and
it is not.
Mark,
The decision was made,
in Washington, to add the 'Format' supplementary component after it was
determined that none of the attributes/facets of the xsd:built-in
datatypes would be available due to 'our' types being defined as an
empty Restriction of the built-in type.
Mike
Grimley
Michael,
We initially
agreed with your recommendations, but after further discussion we agreed
that we would be better off to stay with the CCT schema module as jointly
agreed to with OAG and UN/CEFACT. That schema modules leverage the
xsd:built-in datatypes where appropriate and will give us much better
credibility in the XML community at large. Having said that, I
understand that the selective group is making changes to Washington
decisions so I can't really say what the final answer is. However, I
will tell you that unnecessary deviations from joint agreements with
other standards bodies will ensure that UBL will completely
stand alone in
its implementation of CCTS, and will ensure that its support base will be
limited.
Mark
Ooooh, I seem to remember that
the NDR discussion in Washington was just the other way round
and that the group disagreed with my 'simple' CCTS
approach.
Now, I'm confused.
Stephen: help
Michael
Greetings,
As mentioned in a previous email, and not
included below, the latest
CCT schema still has 'DateTime', 'Indicator' and 'Numeric' types defined
as simple types (with a *Restriction* on the built in
type).
I believe we had agreed in
Washington that they would be redefined to conform to the CCTS. That is,
the required supplementary component 'Format' would be added to the
definition of each.
I wasn't able to make yesterday's meeting (until the end, anyway)
and Jon has made it very clear that that is where the decisions are
made; however, this involves CCTS conformance and, if I am not mistaken,
the decision was made in joint session with Tim and Steve on the phone,
so there was good representation of all concerned SCs.
Thank You,
Mike
Grimley
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