Universal Business Language v2.3 from the UBL TC approved as a Committee Specification
UBL v2.3 is ready for testing and implementation
OASIS is pleased to announce that Universal Business Language Version 2.3 from the OASIS Universal Business Language TC [1] has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification.
UBL is the leading interchange format for business documents. It is designed to operate within a standard business framework such as ISO/IEC 15000 (ebXML) to provide a complete, standards-based infrastructure that can extend the benefits of existing EDI systems to businesses of all sizes. The European Commission has declared UBL officially eligible for referencing in tenders from public administrations, and in 2015 UBL was approved as ISO/IEC 19845:2015.
Specifically, UBL provides:
- A suite of structured business objects and their associated semantics expressed as reusable data components and common business documents.
- A library of schemas for reusable data components such as Address, Item, and Payment, the common data elements of everyday business documents.
- A set of schemas for common business documents such as Order, Despatch Advice, and Invoice that are constructed from the UBL library components and can be used in generic procurement and transportation contexts.
UBL v2.3 is a minor revision to v2.2 that preserves backwards compatibility with previous v2.# versions. It adds new document types, bringing the total number of UBL business documents to 91.
This Committee Specification is an OASIS deliverable, completed and approved by the TC and fully ready for testing and implementation.
The prose specifications and related files are available here:
Universal Business Language Version 2.3
Committee Specification 01
19 January 2021
Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.xml
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.pdf
Code lists for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/cl/
Context/value Association files for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/cva/
Document models of information bundles:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/mod/
Default validation test environment:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/val/
XML examples:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/xml/
Annotated XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/xsd/
Runtime XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/xsdrt/
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file at:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.zip
Members of the UBL TC [1] approved this specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee Specification passed [3], and the document is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.
Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone and our thanks to the reviewers who provided feedback on the specification drafts to help improve the quality of the work.
Additional references:
[1] OASIS Universal Business Language TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl
[2] History of publication, including public reviews:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3-csd04-public-review-metadata.html
[3] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3552