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.

Certain descriptions are verbatim quotes from the United Nations guidelines document.

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 formatting specifications.

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.

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.

This number is a unique number assigned to the order by the buyer.

This field states the date of the order.

This field provides a seller assigned reference to the order.

This field provides the buyer's reference to the order.

This field provides the contract reference if applicable.

These fields are used to provide the name and address of the receiver of the goods involved in the transaction.

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

These fields are used to provide the name and address of the buyer of the goods involved in the transaction.

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

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

This fields provides the name of the destination country.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

This fields provides the INCOTERM code for the terms of delivery.

This field provides the location name (if relevant) associated to the delivery terms.

This field provides free text description of special conditions relating to the delivery terms.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

This specifies the payment currency for the entire order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

At this time this field is not being used in the order.

This field provides the gross weight of the order (not the shipment as it is not known at the order stage).

This field provides the gross volume of the order (not the shipment as it is not known at the order stage).

This field provides the net weight of the order (not the shipment as it is not known at the order stage).

The first reference is the buyer's assigned reference to the line item.

The second reference is the seller's assigned reference to the line item.

This provides a free text description of the line item.

This field is used to provide to country of origin for the line item.

This field is used to provide the commodity code for the line item.

This field states the number of items ordered for the line item.

This field is used to specify the unit price of the line item.

This field states the actual line item amount which will be quantity multiplied by the unit price, the result is not calculated it will be transmitted.

This notes field is used for any free text information that relates to the entire order.

Two data fields populate this one form field: the currency and the total amount.

The total amount is the total of all the individual line items and is not calculated it will be transmitted.

This fields identified the name of the signatory.

The above fields provide information relating to the date and place of issue of the order.

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

This field is not currently being filled automatically as it is a manual entry.