thanks for the background - i appreciate it.
let me talk to a few people and work out a strategy for developing a
complete UBL test set.
KC Morris wrote:
> Tim,
> One goal for the QOD tool is to allow people to collaborate in the
> development of test cases for NDRs. We would like to see many
> organizations using the service to that end, as the IRS has done. If
> the Danish government would like to contribute their tests for their
> NDR to our system we would be more than happy to help them in doing so
> and they will retain all rights to the tests including the right to
> add, change, or remove tests from the system.
> To add to what's already been said regarding the tests that are there,
> the 3 test profiles that I mentioned are ones that are relatively
> complete. There are examples of test cases for several other
> groups. As to why those 3 are more complete than others here's how it
> worked: NIST supported the development of the DON NDR tests because
> it was one of the first NDRs that we had available, it had overlap
> with other NDRs of interest, and it was of interest to the
> manufacturing world. It was in part a learning experience for us to
> find out what it takes to develop a test profile. The IRS developed
> their own Test Profile and for obvious reasons they chose the IRS
> NDR. The work on the OAGi NDR was the outgrowth of other projects
> that we are involved with with OAGi and, in particular, our
> organization's interest in supporting the manufacturing world through
> the automobile industry's work with OAGi. Our organization is the
> Manufacturing Engineering Lab at NIST so our mission specifically
> includes support for manufacturing industry and related supply chains.
>
> KC
> NIST
>
>
> Tim McGrath wrote:
>> my comment was more promotional than technical. How come OAG, IRS
>> and Navy get a mention and UBL doesn't? How can we remedy this?
>>
>> The Danish government have a comprehensive set of schematron rules
>> for UBL - can we utilize those?
>>
>> Betty Harvey wrote:
>>> Schematron test cases haven't been developed for most of the UBL rules
>>> yet.
>>>
>>> Actually alot of the rules are very similar from one NDR standard to
>>> the
>>> next NDR standard, the words used are just slightly different. I am
>>> working on developing a mechanism for programatically categorizing NDR
>>> rules, the next step will try to find similarities between rules so
>>> that
>>> developed test cases can be reused.
>>>
>>> QOD can also be installed locally and is available on Sourceforge
>>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qod/).
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Betty
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim McGrath wrote:
>>>
>>>> why isn't UBL listed in the sets announced?
>>>>
>>>> it would be useful if peole knew this.
>>>>
>>>> Betty Harvey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As some of you are aware, I have been helping NIST in developing
>>>>> schema's,
>>>>> transformations and authoring tools to support NDRs in general and
>>>>> QOD.
>>>>> This latest version provides the ability to import and export NDR
>>>>> profiles
>>>>> and tests in XML.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are a limited number UBL testcases already in QOD.
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought the UBL committee might be interested in this tool!
>>>>>
>>>>> Betty
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------- Original Message
>>>>> ----------------------------
>>>>> Subject: New Release of NIST's XML Schema Quality of Design Tool
>>>>> From: "KC Morris" <>
>>>>> Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 11:24 am
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NIST is pleased to announce a new release of the XML Schema
>>>>> Quality of
>>>>> Design Tool -- QOD.
>>>>>
>>>>> QOD assists in consistently using XML Schema for the specification of
>>>>> information. QOD is intended for both people developing guidelines
>>>>> for
>>>>> writing high quality XML schemas and those writing XML schemas. The
>>>>> purpose of QOD is to improve the quality of the XML schemas. The
>>>>> system allows users to define rules for writing quality XML
>>>>> Schemas and
>>>>> to test schemas against those rules. This release of the tool
>>>>> includes
>>>>> improvements to the user interface, performance, and display of
>>>>> results,
>>>>> support for ISO Schematron for writing tests, and the addition of an
>>>>> import and export capability to facilitate off-line development of
>>>>> tests.
>>>>>
>>>>> The QOD site also contains a number of sample sets of tests for XML
>>>>> Schema Naming and Design Rule (NDR) specifications. In addition to
>>>>> the
>>>>> improvements to the tool, the number of tests available also has been
>>>>> expanded. Extensive sets of test based on the following
>>>>> specifications
>>>>> are available:
>>>>>
>>>>> * The OAGIS*^® * 9.0 XML Naming and Design Rules Standard
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://www.openapplications.org/downloads/oagis/loadfrm90NDR.htm>,
>>>>> Open Applications Group, September 30, 2005.
>>>>>
>>>>> * "IRS XML Standards and Guidelines."
>>>>> <http://xml.coverpages.org/IRS-NDR-200508.pdf> Edited by Sol
>>>>> Safran <mailto:> (IRS, Enterprise Data
>>>>> Management). Draft document. From Volume 4, IRS Enterprise Data
>>>>> Standards and Guidelines (Special Tools and Techniques), September
>>>>> 2006.
>>>>>
>>>>> * Department of the Navy XML Naming and Design Rules
>>>>> <http://xml.coverpages.org/DON-XML-NDR20050127-33942.pdf>. Final
>>>>> Version 2.0. Office of the DON, Chief Information Officer. January
>>>>> 2005.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a guest user, you may use these rules to check whether a schema
>>>>> that
>>>>> you are developing or uses meets those guidelines. More advanced
>>>>> users
>>>>> are able to create their own rules and make sets of rules
>>>>> available to
>>>>> their communities.
>>>>>
>>>>> For more information, check it out at http://nist.gov/qod!
>>>>>
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