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Subset validation artefact creation service

Service providers: Submitted by gkholman on Fri, 2016-12-09 16:07. Last updated on Fri, 2016-12-09 16:13.

Crane Softwrights Ltd. now offers a packaged service to create subset UBL schemas and other validation artefacts.  The publicly-available tools used by Crane are the same tools used by the UBL Technical Committee to create the validation artefacts in the UBL distribution.  Clients can use the public tools on their own or contract Crane to invoke the tools with a client's specification of their subset of UBL (accomplished using a shared online spreadsheet).  Details are found at the URL below.

Timeout importing xsd files from UBL 2.1 in SAP ECC6

Forum topic: Submitted by ltouillaud on Wed, 2016-12-07 08:52. Last updated on Wed, 2016-12-07 08:52.

Hello everyone,

We have currently problems importing the UBL2.1 xsd files into SAP ECC6 through transaction SPROXY.

I know recommendation by SAP is to use their EAI (XI, PI, PO) to make the mapping between sap structures and UBL structure but is there no possibility to import it directly into SAP backend system?

The problem is the processing time is very long and leads to timeout. Even when extending timeout, files are then loaded (after 1 hour) but the proxy transaction in SAP takes 20 minutes for each action.

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Seminar: UBL E-invoicing, a daily practice

Event: Submitted by gkholman on Sat, 2016-11-19 02:13. Last updated on Sat, 2016-11-19 02:18.
Location: 
Utrecht, Netherlands
Date: 
7 Dec 2016
Event Type: 
Conference

Agreement on syntaxes complying with the forthcoming European standard (EN) on Electronic Invoicing

News: Submitted by gkholman on Mon, 2016-11-07 17:27. Last updated on Mon, 2016-11-07 17:33.

Thomas Fillis reports from Barcelona:

CEN/TC 434 unanimously agreed to endorse UBL and CII as the syntaxes complying with the forthcoming EN and to be listed in a specific CEN Technical Specification (TS). Once the EN and TS are published by CEN and referenced in the  Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), contracting authorities and entities in the EU will have to receive and process electronic invoices which comply with the EN and any of the two syntaxes, in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 of Directive 2014/55/EU.

 

Another road-side advertisement citing UBL

News: Submitted by gkholman on Sat, 2016-11-05 00:15. Last updated on Mon, 2016-11-07 17:26.

Thanks to Tim for finding another photograph of a billboard in the Netherlands:

It complements the billboard photograph posted at:  http://ubl.xml.org/node/455

 

 

Australia choses UBL for whole-of-economy eInvoicing

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Wed, 2016-08-03 00:16. Last updated on Wed, 2016-08-03 00:29.

This news article is the latest update on the Australian whole-of-economy eBusiness framework. 

The officially specifications will be published in the next few weeks at http://digitalbusinesscouncil.com.au. The article omits the fact that the PEPPOL-developed OASIS standards for business discovery (SMP and SML) are also being used.

Several of the council’s members were already working on bringing the standards to life with an aggressive timeline as early as this coming September. 

UBL TC nominated for OASIS Open Standards Cup

News: Submitted by gkholman on Mon, 2016-06-20 19:10. Last updated on Mon, 2016-06-20 19:13.

I'm very proud to announce that today the UBL TC was nominated for the second time in three years for the OASIS Open Standards Cup, this time for the Outstanding Approved Standard:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201606/msg00016.html

All committee members work hard for the UBL community and I am pleased to see their efforts recognized with this nomination.

. . . . . . Ken

 

MSC Belgium chooses UBL as e-Invoice XML format

News: Submitted by gkholman on Wed, 2016-06-01 01:30. Last updated on Wed, 2016-06-01 01:34.

"MSC Belgium selected the OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) Invoice
XML standard which is widely gaining traction in national and
international contexts."

Invoice schema does not import correctly

Forum topic: Submitted by MartinGK on Wed, 2016-04-13 14:18.

Hi folks

I'm working on PEPPOL/UBL for a customer, and have downloaded the 2.1 UBL schemas. The UBL-Invoice-2.1.xsd does not import correctly - there's a missing dependency for the http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#:Signature element. That's in the UBL-xmldsig-core-schema-2.1.xsd file, which is not imported

I tried adding the UBL-SignatureAggregateComponents-2.1.xsd file as an import, as that in turn imports the xmldsig namespace, but that's still not working. A check of a couple of the other maindoc schemas suggests that this is a general problem.

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CEN PC 434 "Electronic invoicing - Semantic data model" out for balloting (Enquiry)

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Fri, 2016-02-12 07:38. Last updated on Fri, 2016-02-12 08:00.

The CEN PC 434 publication "Electronic invoicing - Semantic data model of the core elements of an electronic invoice" has reached its Enquiry stage following the CEN standards development process.

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