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[Betty Harvey]

Hi Stephen: I don't know if you are familiar with the work that is being done at NIST on a tool for validating schema's against NDR rules. The tools is called "Quality of Design" or QOD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qod/). You might want to take a look at the tool - I think you might find it very useful. I have been working with NIST in developing user requirements and schema design. We have developed a schema we are calling (NDRProfile). The profile schema provides the ability to author a subset of the NDR for importing and exporting rules in an out of QOD. QOD provides the ability to encode the rules in both Schematron or JESS. The conversion of the UBL NDR Word document went pretty smoothly because Mike and Mavis did an excellent job of maintaining Word styles. They also had uniform styles that allowed me to convert the Docbook UBL into an NDRProfile. If you are interested in any of these files I have them available at: http://ecc02.eccnet.com/ndr/UBLNDR/UBLNDR/ The file "UBL-NDR-Docbook-20070207.xml" is the full NDR. The file "UBL-NDR-Profile.xml" file is the file that is used to import the UBL profile to QOD. The NDRProfile schema is in the process of being modified because of modifications that is being made to QOD to support import/export of NDRProfile. The PDF file in this directory was created using Ken Holman's Docbook to OASIS PDF stylesheet for XSL-FO. If you have any questions or ideas, please let me know. There may possibly be some synergy with what you are doing and what NIST is doing with QOD. Betty > An aside regarding the docbook of NDR: I'm working a bit with TAG TC > which involves looking at best practices and examples of specification > approaches (as precursors to documenting 'test assertions' - precursors > in turn to test cases which software producers would develop) and > it is very interesting a) how UBL have developed the NDR and its > checklist and b) how this has been represented in docbook. > Would UBL TC object at all to my using the NDR format, checklist and > docbook representations, perhaps, as examples for some of the TAG TC > work? It might be that this will help with considerations of how test > assertion guidelines/lists as well as specifications such as the NDR. > Maybe this will in turn inspire some ideas about how to represent an > NDR such as UBL's as a list of test assertions such as those in a format > the TAG TC hope to specify and describe. > > Best regards > > -- > Stephen Green > > Partner > SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk > Tel: +44 (0) 117 9541606 > > http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+22:37 .. and voice > > > > Quoting harvey