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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.
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 selected the OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) Invoice
XML standard which is widely gaining traction in national and
international contexts."
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.
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.
The Swedish government's Single Face to Industry (SFTI) programme have launched a free validation service for their recommended XML-formats including the UBL Invoice profiles for the PEPPOL BIS-formats (which they call Svehandel) plus additional legacy formats used in Sweden such as Svefaktura 1.0.
The official press release from OASIS, ISO and IEC is now published at:
An essay regarding the Canadian and US approaches towards building government electronic invoicing, in comparison to the European approach:
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La comunidad europea ha establecido que el estándar UBL sea el utilizado en las transacciones electrónicas en las dependencias de gobierno, lo que permite el intercambio electrónico de información como son:
