ACG 4401 Chapter 2 1

  Meta-Language  A language that can be used to create others (vocabularies) ▪ Universal Business Language (UBL) ▪ Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) Application has sets of xml documents  Instance Document .xml ▪ contains the data (chapter 2 & Chapter 4)  Schema Document .xsd

▪ Describes allowed structure (data types, element names) of instance document (chapter 3)  Stylesheet .xsl

▪ Formatting instructions for data in the instance document (chapter 5)

  A language used to create other languages  Vocabularies Describes:  Rules &  Syntax  

For Structuring Documents!

Does NOT describe tag names 3

  Well Formed documents  meet basic rules for XML (chapter 2) Valid documents  Meets rules regarding structure, order and data types as described in Schema (chapter 3) 4

  Tags  Meta-data ▪ description of data enclosed within brackets ▪ <>, opening ▪ closing Element  Opening tag, data, and Closing tag ▪ Dr. Hornik  Attribute ▪ Data that adds meaning to the data adding meaning to the data  ▪ ▪ Data describing the tag Dr. Hornik 5

 Parent Hierarchy  Parent/Complex ▪ ▪ Does not enclose data Encloses/Contains other elements ▪  Dr. Hornik ▪ ▪ Child Root Element ▪ Encloses All other elements in Instance Document  Child/Simple ▪ Encloses Data ▪ Dr. Hornik 6

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 The first line of an XML document must contain the prologue .

The main theme of the XML document – the must enclose all the other elements in the document. There can be only one root element.

root element Every element must have an closing tag name opening tag name <> and a and they must match (case sensitive).

Documents can have empty elements.

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Elements must be ring to it).

properly nested convention or more properly a , that is you close the tag that was opened last – think of tags as using a LIFO LOFC Last Opened First Closed convention (though it doesn’t have quite the same Elements can have attributes .

 ▪ ▪ Attributes follow the opening tag name attributeName=“attributeValue” attributeName is not included in the closing tag

  Every XML document starts with a prolog It lets the XML enabled processor know that this is an XML document to be processed

 UCS Transformation Format—8-bit) is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set.

 Comment

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Universal Business Language 11

  Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Complete XML based library of business documents 12

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  When possible UBL uses the same structure for elements in different documents PostalAddress can be used in:  Catalogue  Purchase Order  Invoice  … ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ So it has the same structure Main St. 56A Newark 19716 DE USA

      Each has a unique Root Element Each has a required ID  Uniquely Identify document Each has a required IssueDate Determine when document is created     Optional IssueTime Each has two Party elements Provider/Supplier  Customer/Buyer Each has at least one line element CatalogueLine OrderLine

 UBL Schema’s 16

   UBL defines what the root element name is

  Parent elements contain or enclose other elements Root ( ) Parent of:           ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ What are the Parent elements within this element?

    Attributes are contained within an opening element tag <> attributeName=“attribute value”  Name-pair value 575.55 1

Processes Covered

 Sample Despatch Advice

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  Assume Customers place Pizza Order over phone What data is captured with order?

 ▪ ▪ Customer ▪ Phone# Name Address  ▪ ▪ Order ▪ Items Delivery/Pickup Total Amount 23

     In-class/Windows use NotePad Mac use TextWrangler You must use a Text Editor (not a word processor) XML editor – Exchanger XML Lite (PC and Mac) Testing XML  Open in Browser (IE, Firefox, Safari??)  If it opens it’s well formed  If you receive an error message it’s not 24