Duane,
Am I confused or are we were looking at RDF/OWL to serialize this sort of
stuff? Isn't RDF/OWL more appropriate than XMI here?
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John Gillerman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Nickull [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:53 AM
> To: BEDINI Ivan RD-BIZZ-CAE
> Cc: Chiusano Joseph; ; Farrukh
> Najmi; Breininger, Kathryn R; David Webber (XML)
> Subject: Re: [regrep] Standards approval process
>
> Ivan:
>
> The document is not complete and there are problems that
> UN/CEFACT has clearly not addressed yet. For that reason, I
> am stopping work on this document.
>
> joseph is correct - the serialization is far more important
> than the storage. Please get off this whole idea of how to
> map to the RIM until it is understood what the serialization
> will be. There is a dependency on this and until this is
> solved, you and everyone else working on the storage are
> probably not spending your time well.
>
> Some partial answers inline:
>
> BEDINI Ivan RD-BIZZ-CAE wrote:
>
> >how to represent an ABIE for example.
> >
> >
> XML Schema can represent this. There are things that XML
> Schema cannot do and those will be limitations.
>
> >an ABIE normally is an aggregate of more simplest basic
> components and
> >less simplest associations to others aggregate objects.
> >
> >
> Associations may be represented in the registry but in a
> serialization, they can be expressed again using XML Schema
> (or XMI perhaps).
>
> >to define an ABIE you need to define its structure too and I can't
> >understand how we can define that in the property element of the
> >serialisation.
> >
> >
> Again - XML schema and XMI are the best tools we have.
>
> >there, all elements are only sequentially put in the XML
> document and
> >so doing we lose :
> >- the structure of a CC
> >
> >
> Not true. It is still referencable via the UUID.
>
> >- all associations between CCs
> >
> >
> Not true - you can query the registry.
>
> >- XML potentialities to automate structure and semantic
> controls of the
> >data submission.
> >
> >
> We actually wrote such an engine to help build documents out
> of CC's with context declarations. It is not a trivial thing to do.
>
> There is a lot of work that needs to be done.
>
> Duane Nickull
>
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