The First Edition of the UBL 1.0 International Data Dictionary (IDD) has been approved as an OASIS Committee Draft by the OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee and is now available for general use.
See my articles on UBL, such as:
Thinking XML: Universal Business Language (UBL Thinking XML: UBL 1.0 (plus ebXML Core Components and more)
UBL builds full document schemata from discrete data elements called business information entities (BIEs) in a process I describe in those articles. This translation makes BIEs more useful to Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean, and Spanish speakers, as well as English.
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