UBL 2.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) Alternative Representation Version 1.0
Committee Note 03
13 March 2019
- Specification URIs
- This version:
- https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-ASN.1/v1.0/cn03/UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-ASN.1/v1.0/cn03/UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.pdf
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-ASN.1/v1.0/cn03/UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.xml (Authoritative)
- Technical Committee:
- OASIS Universal Business Language TC
- Chair:
- G. Ken Holman (gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com), Crane Softwrights Ltd.
- Editor:
- G. Ken Holman (gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com), Crane Softwrights Ltd.
- Related work:
This note is related to:
Universal Business Language Version 2.1. 04 November 2013. OASIS Standard. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.html. Latest version: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1.html.
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See Appendix A, Release Notes for more information regarding this release package.
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[UBL-2.1-ASN.1] UBL 2.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) Alternative Representation Version 1.0. 13 March 2019. OASIS Committee Note 03. https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-ASN.1/v1.0/cn03/UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.html. Latest version: https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-ASN.1/v1.0/UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0.html.
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Table of Contents
Appendixes
The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) defines a generic XML interchange format for business documents that can be restricted or extended to meet the requirements of particular industries. Specifically, UBL provides the following:
A suite of structured business objects and their associated semantics expressed as reusable data components and common business documents.
A library of XML schemas for reusable data components such as “Address”, “Item”, and “Payment”—the common data elements of everyday business documents.
A set of XML 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.
This Committee Note provides an alternative non-normative representation of the UBL XML schemas for use in systems supporting Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1), ISO/IEC 8825-1.
The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this document, are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
UBL 2.1 continues the practice, adopted at the beginning of the UBL effort, of creating its normative XML specifications using W3C Schema (XSD) syntax. Alternative representations of the same content are generated directly from the XSD and are intended to implement the same document instance constraints.
Alternative representations of the same content are technically non-normative.
The UBL ASN.1 specification provides an alternative schema definition for UBL documents in accordance with ITU-T X.680-X.693 [ASN.1]. The UBL ASN.1 specification defines the same UBL documents as the UBL XSD schemas that constitute the normative definitions of valid UBL documents. The UBL ASN.1 XML specification enables ASN.1 tools to be used for UBL transfers, and in conjunction with the ASN.1 Packed Encoding Rules, it provides a specification for an efficient binary encoding of UBL messages.
The ASN.1 modules were created using a tool from OSS Nokalva that conforms to ITU-T Recommendation X.694 | ISO/IEC 8825-5 for converting XSD Schema to ASN.1.
This software-generated summary documentation file describes the contents of the ASN.1 schemas for UBL 2.1 in a human-readable format in HTML:
asn/summary2.1.html- various indexes into the schema componentsasn/ubl2.1.html- the ASN.1 schema componentsasn/styles.css- visual display support stylesheet
The following ASN.1 schemas are for the UBL 2.1 document models:
The following schemas are not addressed directly for validation of a UBL document but are referenced from the document schemas in support of their requirements:
Appendix A Release Notes
Online and downloadable versions of this release are available from the locations specified at the top of this document.
Release of this package to the public marks the beginning of its first public review of Committee Note 03. The UBL Technical Committee actively solicits input from the user community regarding this release. See Status at the beginning of this document for procedures to be used in submitting comments to the Committee. Note that in accordance with OASIS policies regarding intellectual property, the UBL TC cannot accept input from persons outside the UBL TC (including OASIS members) unless it is submitted via the comment list.
This OASIS Committee Note is published as a zip archive in the https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-ASN.1/v1.0/cn03/ directory. Unzipping this archive creates a directory tree containing a master DocBook XML file (UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.xml), a generated hypertext version of this file (UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.html), a generated PDF version of this file (UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.pdf), and a number of subdirectories. The files in these subdirectories contain the various components of this release. A description of each subdirectory is given below. Note that while the UBL-2.1-ASN.1-v1.0-cn03.xml file is the “original” of this specification, it may not be viewable in all currently available web browsers.
asnASN.1 UBL 2.1 schemas and documentation
dbasnDocBook documentation support files
Note that the files and directories in this package are named such that the contents of this package can be overlaid on top of the unzipped UBL 2.1 package contents without overwriting any files.
UBL is a volunteer project of the international business community. Inquiries regarding UBL may be posted to the public ubl-dev list, archives for which are located at
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OASIS provides an official community gathering place and information resource for UBL at
Appendix B Revision History
This release takes into account a corrigendum to Rec. ITU-T X.694 | ISO/IEC 8825-5
correcting some constraints in the ASN.1 XSD module (as expressed in asn/xsd.asn).
Appendix C Acknowledgements
The following persons contributed to the work of the committee during the preparation of this work product.
| Todd Albers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| Oriol Bausa Peris, Individual |
| Kenneth Bengtsson, Individual |
| Erlend Klakegg Bergheim, Difi-Agency for Public Management and eGovernment |
| Peter Borresen, ClearView Trade |
| Kees Duvekot, RFS Holland Holding B.V. |
| Cécile Guasch, Individual |
| G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd. |
| Yves Jordan, Publications Office of the European Union |
| Ole Madsen, Danish Business Authority |
| Andre Mitchell, Individual |
| Natalie Muric, Publications Office of the European Union |
| Levine Naidoo, Individual |
| Olli Pajari, Individual |
| Steve Ryan, Individual |
| Enric Staromiejski Torregrosa, everis, S.L.U. |
| Matt Vickers, Xero |