Canon Stéphane, Tuesday, April 18, 2000 6:33 AM
> Melanie,
> I fully agree with you :
> 1. Edi knowledge should be reused
> 2. Xml standards development process should follow some kind
> of methodology (and UML seems to be a good choice).
Surely EDI community realizes there is a *numerical limit* to the
number of messages and data elements that SMEs and software developers
will accept. You must either
A. create a small core vocabulary such as 10 choreographies,
30 message types and 300 data elements, and a 2nd level as a
superset, for the rest of your 100,000 elements,
or
B. Create your 100,000 element vocabulary and identify the
appropriate subset within it, for SMEs.
An alternative I suppose, might be numeric coefficient or rating on each
data element indicating its frequency of use in various industries.
This would enable more intelligent allocation of development resources.
It would be cool if such coefficient were self-calibrating,
by some registry facility that would accumulate usage statistics
together with associated user attributes within the population (dream on..)
Todd
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