Hi,

I have no EDI experience and there were quite a lot of terms in the document that are not explained. I know it is a requirements document and not the specification, but your document presumes prior knowledge of existing codelists. This makes me a bit wary as although you appear to be uplifting existing technology I believe that you need to be open to new thinking from people without prior experience.

With the above in mind, I personally would concur with the aspiration to not just have an XML representation of a codelist. I believe that if you can provide a framework for extra formats such as a Java interface or RDF/Ontology based, the information can then be utilised in a wider environment.

Martin Roberts