Looking for an XSD representing an 'Order' for a shopping cart

Question

I am trying to create an XML schema representing an 'order' for a shopping cart

I want this to completely abstract away my shopping cart's implementation -- and eventually support partners sending us orders using this schema. (yes i'm planning on integrating this schema into our existing cart)

It will have original order items, repeat shipping items and domain specific things. I'm quite capable of building this, but i was wondering if there are many things out there like this that I could at least base mine upon.

I know there are standards out there for certain schema elements like this, but I've lost track of which are the best/standard and how you might extend them etc.

obviously if i want a partner to send me an 'order' i'd like to use a standard if one exists.

Answer 1

Do you want the XML, or the XSD? For the XSD, you can generate one using Microsoft's XSD generator based off of an XML document.

If you want a generic XML document that could represent an 'order', here's one.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <Order>
 <Date>2003/07/04</Date>
 <CustomerId>123</CustomerId>
 <CustomerName>Acme Alpha</CustomerName>

   <Item>
 <ItemId> 987</ItemId>
 <ItemName>Coupler</ItemName>
 <Quantity>5</Quantity>
 </Item>

<Item>
 <ItemId>654</ItemId>
 <ItemName>Connector</ItemName>
 <Quantity unit="12">3</Quantity>
 </Item>

<Item>  
 <ItemId>579</ItemId>
 <ItemName>Clasp</ItemName>
 <Quantity>1</Quantity>
 </Item>

</Order>

From here.

Answer 2

If you are looking for ideas about how to structure the shopping cart:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/360959/database-table-structure-for-shopping-cart

Answer 3

UBL (Universal Business Language) defines schemas for business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc.). It is an OASIS standard, see:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl