Welcome to UBL.XML.org.

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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UBL Testimonials

This page tracks endorsements of UBL from organizations around the globe.

JustSystems
"With version 2.0, UBL becomes the foundation for building systems that are compliant with a global standard for business documents. JustSystems' native XML application platform, xfy, already supports the entire set of 31 UBL 2.0 document types, and we believe that this support will help industry adapt to UBL 2.0 and resolve real-world issues of doing business."
--Hideki Hiura, CTO of JustSystems

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Blogroll

This page provides links to blogs that relate to UBL and are hosted here or on other sites:

Customizations

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent,
but rather the one most responsive to change."

Charles Darwin

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UBL 2.0 Customization spreadsheets

A suite of spreadsheets modified from cs-UBL-2.0 spreadsheets
illustrating a method of expressing the catalogue of members of
UBL 2.0 that are present and absent from a particular
customization of UBL 2.0.

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