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This is the official community gathering place and information resource for the OASIS UBL (ISO/IEC 19845) International Standard. UBL defines a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices.

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Model UBL Letter Agreement and Commentary

Product: Submitted by gkholman on Tue, 2008-12-16 01:16.

The Model UBL Letter Agreement provides a template for contracts between trading partners who wish to treat particular UBL electronic documents as equivalent to their paper counterparts. The Model does not itself constitute a contract and should not be used without legal review, but together with the Commentary it provides a starting point for lawyers and a checklist for discussion with their clients.

Do you need tools to support document interoperability?

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Thu, 2008-11-20 04:36.

Data interoperability remains an important problem in the industry today which is handled by the mapping experts and data consultants who understand the semantic meaning of each entity in a specific interface and define the mappings among different document artifacts, usually as XSLT rules.

In order to facilitate this costly and tedious process, the OASIS SET TC
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=set)
has been established.

UBL 2.0 International Data Dictionary for Public Review until January 6th 2009

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Tue, 2008-11-11 21:02.

The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC has recently approved the UBL 2.0 International Data Dictionary as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review: The public review started 7 November 2008, and ends 6 January 2008. There is an open invitation to comment and feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not,

Prototype eInvoicing and eOrdering project in Europe

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Tue, 2008-11-11 20:51.

The European Commission IDABC eInvoicing and eOrdering project team has recently reached an important milestone: the delivery of the prototype. It allows the sending of an XML invoice to the Commission's e-PRIOR system and the automatic integration in the back-office system after a number of validations. The major next step is a real-life pilot with a number of IT suppliers.

Public review begins for UBL Guidelines for Customization 1.0

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Thu, 2008-10-16 12:58.

The Universal Business Language (UBL) Guidelines for Customization Version 1.0 provides practical information for creating UBL-conformant and UBL-compatible document schemas.

Latest UBLish v2.0.alpha Powers Your Spreadsheet With Direct UBL Generation

Product: Submitted by cheekai on Tue, 2008-10-07 15:31.

2008 Oct 06

UBLish v2.0.alpha (20081006) is now available for early download!

This version primarily delivers the new functionality of converting fancy spreadsheet designed with user input data directly into XML-instances such as UBL or other document formats. 

UBLish v2.0.alpha Availble - Now You Can!

Product: Submitted by cheekai on Tue, 2008-09-23 02:04. Last updated on Tue, 2008-09-23 02:12.
  2008 Sep 22

UBLish v2.0.alpha is now available for early download! If you like what XML-Spreadsheets for UBL 2.0 and UBL v1.0 IDD draft could do for you, now you can generate them, as well as any Excel spreadsheet content, directly by yourself!

XML-Spreadsheet for UBL v1.0 IDD draft spreadsheet available

Product: Submitted by cheekai on Fri, 2008-09-19 08:15. Last updated on Fri, 2008-09-19 08:27.

2008 Sep 19

XML-Spreadsheet for the multilingual translation table work done in UBL v1.0 IDD (International Data Dictionary) draft spreadsheet is now available.  The XML-Spreadsheet is an extremely simple XML format to convey as faithfully as possible the content and structure of original spreadsheets.  This allows all the power XML tools, utilities, processors, systems and knowledge to be used easily on the content of spreadsheets.

XML-Spreadsheets for UBL v2.0 Available

Product: Submitted by cheekai on Wed, 2008-09-17 18:09. Last updated on Thu, 2008-09-18 03:42.

2008 Sep 18

XML-Spreadsheets for UBL v2.0's entire set of model spreadsheets are now available.

XML-Spreadsheets contain the same content as the spreadsheets but stored in XML form.  This facilitates use of other power XML tools and transformation engines such as XSL/XSLT, XML processors, browsers, AJAX, applets, etc to extract more value out of the spreadsheet content.

Re-release of UBLish v1.0b.kpo for UBL v1.0-beta schemas

Product: Submitted by cheekai on Wed, 2008-09-10 13:50. Last updated on Wed, 2008-09-10 13:53.

UBLish v1.0b.kpo is now available as a simple tool to generate  UBL 1.0-beta schemas.  This re-release version, first released in 2003 Nov 24,  features:

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