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UBL Specification Drafts Released [WebTech]

Big news from the UBL working group at OASIS. Their work to create a royalty-free data representation standard for electronic commerce has come to fruition after what seems to me to be a very short time, and they have the first draft up for review and comment.

The UBL specifications are important not just because of the high-level documents for which they provide representations (invoices, purchase orders and so on) but because they define building-block elements such as address, order line, and so on which other schema writers can plunder and so create XML vocabularies that can much more easily be transformed into each other and which software can more readily scan 'blind' to discover meaning. I think this is a huge step forward and the team at OASIS, including my friend Jon Bosak, are to be warmly congratulated.

posted at 5:00 PM (UK) | |