This specification has no formal status at this time. It should not be considered a reference interpretation of UBL documents. Feedback is sought from users of stylesheets that implement this formatting specification regarding suggestions for change for consideration by the OASIS UBL committees for incorporation into these formatting specifications.

Presentational semantics may never be formalized or normative in the UBL project due to differing international requirements and conventions for the presentation of information found in business documents. This document contains only examples from a few of what will probably be many available UBL stylesheet libraries.

The following is an example rendering that illustrates the position and decoration of the information items found in an instance of the document type:

Items in this formatting specification are ordered roughly from the laid out fields on the form in the order left-to-right, top to bottom.

Important: the rendering of a number of fields is very simplified, reflecting a Western European interpretation of a subset of fields (as in names and addresses). User requirements need to be better understood for the level of granularity in these stylesheets.

The following namespaces are mapped to the prefixes in the expressions below:

This information shows up in the window-title bar of the HTML browser, and in the document title supported by some XSL-FO processors.

The reference number is a number or designation preferably common throughout each set of documents.

If not otherwise specified, "date" means the date of issue of the document in which it appears.

This field is intended to show the name and address of the sender of goods or the originator of the documents, as the case may be.

Note that only one of cbc:CountrySubentity and cac:CountrySubentityCode need be used, with preference to cbc:CountrySubentity if it exists.

The field for the name and address to which documents are sent (buyer).

Note that only one of cbc:CountrySubentity and cac:CountrySubentityCode need be used, with preference to cbc:CountrySubentity if it exists.

The buyer's contact for the order

This field is not filled in at this time

The address where the order is being delivered.

Note that only one of cbc:CountrySubentity and cac:CountrySubentityCode need be used, with preference to cbc:CountrySubentity if it exists.

This is the reference to the Order line.

One of these exists for each line item.