Changes between UBL-1.0-SBS first (June 2005) and second (January 2006) 
public review drafts 



1. Normative Subset Content Change:

 RegistrationName added to PartyTaxScheme


2. Normative Subset Content Change: 

 Percent added to TaxCategory


3. Change in Section 1, "Introduction" from:

 "To allow trading parties to unambiguously state adherence to the subset where 
 one or more of the partners does not wish to use a full implementation of UBL, 
 this specification provides references (in the form of URIs) that can be 
 included in trading partner agreements."

changed to:

 "To allow trading parties to unambiguously state adherence to the subset where 
 one or more of the partners does not wish to use a full implementation of UBL, 
 this specification provides references (in the form of URNs) that can be 
 included in trading partner agreements."


4. Change in Section 2, "Intended Use of the Small Business Subset" from:

 "It is intended that any party wishing to limit their own UBL implementation 
 to the Small Business Subset (SBS) SHOULD indicate this in their trading partner 
 agreements  (or the equivalent) with the relevant UBL schema URI and URL and 
 with the URI and URL associated with the respective Small Business Subset 
 definition document.
...
 The subset URL used SHOULD be the persistent URL provided with this 
 documentation but a more convenient alternative persistent URL might be used 
 where this is more desirable, say to assist in automation of the trading partner 
 discovery process. One might have something like the following as part of an 
 business process specification schema (here using ebBPSS 2.0):"

changed to:

 "It is intended that any party wishing to limit their own UBL implementation to 
 the Small Business Subset (SBS) should indicate this in their trading partner 
 agreements (or the equivalent) with the relevant UBL schema namespace and URL 
 and with the URN and URL associated with the respective Small Business Subset 
 definition document.
...
 The subset URL used should be the persistent URL provided with this documentation. 
 Another persistent URL may be used such as those intended to assist in automation 
 of the trading partner discovery process or composition of business documents as 
 defined in a business process.
 When a business process is used in conjunction with the Small Business Subset 
 (such as OASIS ebXML Business Process Specification Schema or ebBP), the logical 
 business document and business rules may be specified to enable their use, as in 
 the following example:"


5. Change to ebBP example fragment in Section 2, "Intended Use of the Small 
   Business Subset", from:

"... 

 <BusinessDocument name="UBL 1.0 Invoice - Small Business Subset" 
 nameID="UBL-1.0-SBS-1.0-Invoice" > 

 <Documentation> The documents are an XSD file and a subset definition that specify 
 the rules for creating the XML document for the business action of invoicing the 
 buyer. For further explanation see http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/.../index.html . 

 </Documentation> 

 <Specification nameID="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-1.0" 

 location="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/xsd/maindoc/UBL-Invoice-1.0.xsd" 
 type="schema" /> 

 <Specification nameID="urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:xpath:Invoice-1.0:sbs-1.0" 

 location="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/.../xpaths/xml/XPath/Invoice-XPath.xml" 
 type="other" /> 

 </BusinessDocument> 

... 

"

changed to:

"... 

 <BusinessDocument name="UBL 1.0 Invoice - Small Business Subset" 
 nameID="UBL-1.0-SBS-1.0-Invoice" > 

 <Documentation> The documents are an XSD file and a subset definition that specify 
 the rules for creating the XML document for the business action of invoicing the buyer. 

 </Documentation> 

 <Specification targetNamespace="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-1.0" 

 name="Invoice" nameID="Invoice" 
 location="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/xsd/maindoc/UBL-Invoice-1.0.xsd" 
 type="schema" /> 

 <Specification externalDocumentDefRef="urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:xpath:Invoice-1.0:sbs-1.0" 

 name="Invoice SBS" nameID="InvoiceSBS" location="../xpaths/xml/XPath/Invoice-XPath.xml" 
 type="other" /> 

 </BusinessDocument> 

... 

"
 [This is to conform to public review draft 4 of OASIS ebBP 2.0.2]


6. Change in Section 2.1, Normative Business Rules, from:

 "2.1 Normative Business Rules
 Unless otherwise specified in a trading partner agreement, the default use of a 
 UBL 1.0 Small Business Subset SHOULD be in accordance with the following two 
 business rules:"

changed to:

 "2.1 Normative Business Rules
 Unless otherwise specified in a trading partner agreement, the default use of a 
 UBL 1.0 Small Business Subset MUST be in accordance with the following two 
 business rules:"


7. Change in prose of Section 3.1, "Normative Material", from:

 "Each of these document subset definition files contains its own Uniform 
 Resource Identifier (URI). The URI is located in the subset definition file in 
 the contents of the attribute named "id" of the root element named "xpath"
 These URIs SHOULD be used as formal identifiers of the SBS version of the 
 appropriate document in a trading partner agreement and business process 
 specification. Typically this would be in addition to the corresponding (and 
 unchanging by this specification) use of the standard UBL namespace URI strings 
 for the purposes of the XML namespace of the UBL vocabulary in instances."

changed to:

 "Each of these document subset definition files contains its own Uniform 
 Resource Name (URN). The URN is located in the subset definition file in the 
 contents of the attribute named "id" of the root element named "xpath".
 These URNs should be used as formal identifiers of the SBS version of the 
 appropriate document in a trading partner agreement and business process 
 specification. 
 Typically this would be in addition to the corresponding (and unchanging by 
 this specification) use of the standard UBL namespaces for the purposes of the 
 XML namespace of the UBL vocabulary in instances."


8. Addition of supplementary packages of material allowing use of ebXML ebBP 
 (2.0.2) and ebCPPA (2.0b) with UBL 1.0 SBS (and UBL 1.0 without a subset):
 "A complete set of ebXML Business Process (ebBP 2.0.2) definitions for the 
 business context of Procurement for use with UBL 1.0 (both definitions with 
 and definitions without the Small Business Subset) is provided here in the 
 universal-business-process-1.0-ebBP/ directory and called 'Universal Business 
 Process 1.0 Part 1: ebBP'. A corresponding set of ebXML Collaboration Protocol 
 Agreement (ebCPPA 2.1) templates has been produced and can be found in the 
 universal-business-process-1.0-ebCPPA/ directory and is called 'Universal 
 Business Process 1.0 Part 2: ebCPPA'." This accompanying prose is added to
 section 2 and section 3.2.


9. Addition of UML diagrams (Non-Normative) outlining each subset, with 
 accompanying prose added to section 3.2:
 "A further set of UML model diagrams identify the elements and datatypes which 
 are included in the subset. These diagrams are located in the uml/ directory." 
 

10. Addition of example instances with simulated content (Non-Normative) for each 
 subset, with accompanying prose added to section 3.2:
 "Valid UBL example instances of each UBL 1.0 document type conforming to the 
 Small Business Subset with simulated content are provided in the directory 
 xml/filled-examples/. These are provided both with fully qualified URLs (located 
 in the directory xml/filled-examples/with-urls/) and with the names of the XSD 
 schema files only (located in the directory xml/filled-examples/without-urls/)."
 

11. Changes to Section 3.2, "Non-Normative Material", (accompanying prose), from:

 "Model files are provided in the format of the data model spreadsheets in the 
 UBL 1.0 Standard, with an extra column R in which "Y" indicates that the 
 corresponding UBL Business Information Entity (BIE) is included in the Small 
 Business Subset. These spreadsheets are located in the model/ subdirectory. 
 Note that for each document spreadsheet a separate copy of the Reusable 
 spreadsheet is required since the subset of reusable BIEs is different for 
 each SBS document model. 
...
 Valid UBL example instances of each UBL 1.0 document type conforming to the Small 
 Business Subset are provided in the directory xml/filled-examples/.
...
"

changed to:

 "A model file is provided in a format similar to the data model spreadsheets in 
 the UBL 1.0 Standard, with an extra column for each subset document, in which "Y" 
 indicates that the corresponding UBL Business Information Entity (BIE) is 
 included in the Small Business Subset. This spreadsheet is located in the model/ 
 subdirectory. 
...
 Valid UBL example instances of each UBL 1.0 document type conforming to every 
 attribute and element of the Small Business Subset but with generated data are 
 provided in the directory xml-generated/filled-examples/. These are provided 
 both with fully qualified URLs (located in the directory 
 xml-generated/filled-examples/with-urls/) and with the names of the XSD schema 
 files only (located in the directory xml-generated/filled-examples/without-urls/).
...
"