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Re: [ubl] Global vs. Local -- Gunther's Recommendation

From: Dave Carlson
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:08:00 -0000

Hi Eve, I don't mean to suggest that there are *no* global elements. But an approach I find useful (and have used for the past 2 years when generating XSD from UML) is to declare a global element for complexType, if that complexType has complexContent (i.e. an ABIE). The global element declaration is *always* in the same schema and same target namespace as its complexType. This leads to a very predictable pattern and easily automatable mapping to/from UML (or other modeling environments, including spreadsheets). The global element name should always be derived from the type name, e.g. "BuyerParty" is the global element for a complexType "BuyerPartyType". Any other element names, especially those based on simpleTypes, are local elements declarations. Dave