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3. Information items
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3.0 Information found in UBL documents
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Committee members are responsible for information modeling of UBL document types
[[1] - the XML document modeling is not the direct responsibility of members
 [1] - XML document models are synthesized from the collaborative information models
 [1] - office software spreadsheets used for collaboratively developing the information models
 [1] - UML information models used for confirming the spreadsheet models
[[2] - some members start with the UML and add to the spreadsheets from their work
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UBL development started with the xCBL 3.0 information items
[[1] - along the way refined the concepts based on reviews and feedback from the public and from committee members
 [1] - applied the principles of syntax-neutral CCTS to the definition of an XML vocabulary
[[2] - UBL is the first publicly-available royalty-free library of XML components defined using CCTS 2.01
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UBL keeps the innovative concept of a library of common shared information items
[[1] - document types are not developed in isolation
 [1] - individual document types are built from components in a single library
 [1] - ensures semantic equivalence of constructs between document types because the constructs are the same (not just similar)
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UBL uses CCTS distinction between basic (atomic) and aggregate (molecular) constructs
[[1] - XML structures are syntactic representations of semantic building blocks of CCTS
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3.1 Crane's UBL information model reports
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3.1.1 Crane's UBL information model reports
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Crane Softwrights Ltd. has created an aggregated report from all document models into a single file to be viewed from a web browser
[[1] - [http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/#ubl2modelreport]
 [1] - Crane-UBL2Reports/EN/Crane-UBL2Report-All-EN.html - 5Mb (complete; all document types in one)
 [1] - Crane-UBL2Reports/EN/Crane-UBL2Report-???????-EN.html - individual document types
 [1] - alphabetically indexed by UBL Name and document type
 [1] - hyperlinked to model row reproduction in an HTML table (juggled columns)
 [1] - hyperlinked to ABIE for each ASBIE, and row numbers to index definitions
 [1] - available in all languages of the IDD
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Multilingual versions of the report
[[1] - the suffix is the two-character language indicator
 [1] - the only columns translated are the definition and common business terms
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Report has three main sections
[[1] - front matter (indexes, meta data, etc.)
 [1] - alphabetized initial two-letters of each component
 [1] - alphabetized link to the model collections included in the report
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Trimmed common library component rows
[[1] - only those common library rows that are used directly or indirectly for the document types are included
 [1] - this improves the traversal through the model as unused rows do not distract the reader
[[2] - e.g. the catalogue-related rows are not included directly or indirectly in the invoice report
][1] - in the report for a customized schema, the trimming includes all unused constructs
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Rules of thumb for navigation
[[1] - hyperlinked row numbers switch between summary and table views
 [1] - hyperlinked UBL names stay within the summary and table views
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Created by Crane's schema subset configuration tool
[[1] - see [Chapter A.]
 [1] - the same report is generated for an arbitrary customization of the schemas
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[Figure 3.1: Crane model summary report screenshot
A screen shot shows portions of the index, copyright and first few information items of the Crane report.
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