OASIS is pleased to announce that Exchange Header Envelope (XHE) Version 1.0 from the OASIS Business Document Exchange (BDXR) TC [1] has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification.

The Exchange Header Envelope (XHE) has been developed jointly by UN/CEFACT and OASIS as the successor to the UN/CEFACT Standard Business Document Header (SBDH) version 1.3 and the OASIS Business Document Envelope (BDE) Version 1.1.

XHE defines a business-oriented artefact either referencing (as a header) or containing (as an envelope) a payload of one or more business documents or other artefacts with supplemental semantic information about the collection of payloads as a whole. An exchange header envelope describes contextual information important to the sender and receiver about the payloads, without having to modify the payloads in any fashion. This vocabulary is modeled using the UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical Specification Version 2.01.

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:

Exchange Header Envelope (XHE) Version 1.0
Committee Specification 03
13 December 2020

Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/cs03/xhe-v1.0-cs03.xml
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/cs03/xhe-v1.0-cs03-oasis.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/cs03/xhe-v1.0-cs03-oasis.pdf
XML schemas and documentation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/cs03/xsd/
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/cs03/xsdrt/
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/cs03/mod/

Distribution ZIP file
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 here:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/cs03/xhe-v1.0-cs03.zi

Members of the BDXR 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 Business Document Exchange (BDXR) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/bdxr/

[2] Public review timeline:
Details of the three public reviews are listed in:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/csd03/xhe-v1.0-csd03-public-review-metadata.html
Comment resolution log for most recent public review:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/bdxr/xhe/v1.0/csd03/xhe-v1.0-csd03-comment-resolution-log.xlsx

[3] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3544

We are pleased to announce that Universal Business Language Version 2.3 from the UBL TC [1] is now available for public review and comment. This is the fourth public review for Universal Business Language v2.3.

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.

The specification documents and related files are available here:

Universal Business Language Version 2.3
Committee Specification Draft 04
25 November 2020

Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.xml
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.pdf
Code lists for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/cl/
Context/value Association files for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/cva/
Document models of information bundles:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/mod/
Default validation test environment:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/val/
XML examples:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/xml/
Annotated XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/xsd/
Runtime XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-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/csd04-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.zip

How to Provide Feedback

OASIS and the UBL TC value your feedback. We solicit feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

This public review starts 15 December 2020 at 00:00 UTC and ends 29 December 2020 at 11:59 UTC.

This specification was previously submitted for public review [2]. This 15-day review may be limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. Changes are described in the previous comment resolution log [2] and highlighted in a red-lined file included in the package [3].

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ubl).

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with the public review of this work, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information about this specification and the UBL TC may be found on the TC’s public home page [1].

Additional references:

[1] OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/

[2] Previous public reviews and comment resolution logs:
– Please see the “Timeline Summary” in the public review metadata document at:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3-csd04-public-review-metadata.html

[3] Red-lined version:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/csd04-UBL-2.3/csd04-UBL-2.3-DIFF.pdf

[4] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[5] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-Limited-Mode
RF on Limited Terms Mode