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This formatting specification describes a rendering of the UBL Order Response document model according to the United Nations Layout Key for Trade Documents guidelines for application for the 320 Acknowledgement of Order form:
320 Acknowledgement of Order: Document acknowledging an undertaking to fulfill an order and confirming conditions or acceptance of conditions.
For a list of all formatting specifications and an overview of the documentation conventions, please visit the formatting specification home page.
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.
Example renderings:
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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 information is unrelated to the visible fields of the form.
Header information is associated with the form as a whole, not to the individual items of goods.
Table 2. XPath information
| XPath addresses |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:PartyName/cat:Name |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:StreetName |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:CityName |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:CountrySubentity |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:PostalZone |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:Country/cat:Name |
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.
This number is a unique number assigned to the order response by the seller.
This field states the date of the order response.
This field provides a reference to the original order.
This field provides the issue date of the original order.
Currently the contents of this field is the same as the Section 3.7, “Buyer” field.
Table 7. XPath information
| XPath addresses |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:BuyerParty/cat:Party/cat:PartyName/cat:Name |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:BuyerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:StreetName |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:BuyerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:CityName |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:BuyerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:CountrySubentity |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:BuyerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:PostalZone |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:BuyerParty/cat:Party/cat:Address/cat:Country/cat:Name |
These fields are used to provide the name and address of the buyer of the goods involved in the transaction.
This field provides the status of the order response, the response staus code should be translated into text form for clarity.
Transportation fields are header-like information and are applicable to the entire order response.
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.
The consignment information holds generic details and totals relating to all the goods items in the order response.
At this time this field is not being used in the order response.
This field provides the gross weight of the order response (not the shipment as it is not known at the order response stage).
This field provides the gross volume of the order response (not the shipment as it is not known at the order response stage).
Line item information is associated with the individual item of goods in the order response
Table 17. XPath information
| XPath addresses |
| /ro:OrderResponse/ro:RespondedOrderLine/cat:LineItem/cat:BuyersID |
| /ro:OrderResponse/ro:RespondedOrderLine/cat:LineItem/cat:SellersID |
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.
Table 18. XPath information
| XPath address |
| /ro:OrderResponse/ro:RespondedOrderLine/cat:LineItem/cat:Item/cat:Description |
This provides a free text description of the line item.
Table 19. XPath information
| XPath address |
| /ro:OrderResponse/ro:RespondedOrderLine/cat:LineItem/cat:Item/cat:CommodityClassification/cat:CommodityCode |
This field is used to provide the commodity code for the line item.
Summary information is associated to the entire order response and not to any individual line item.
This notes field is used for any free text information that relates to the entire order response.
This field provides the date when the goods should be availble for despatch / shipment.
Table 24. XPath information
| XPath addresses |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:PartyName/cat:Name |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:Contact/cat:Telephone |
These fields identified the name of the seller's company and a contact telephone number.
Table 25. XPath information
| XPath address |
| /ro:OrderResponse/cat:SellerParty/cat:Party/cat:Contact/cat:Name |
This field identified the name of the seller's contact.
This field provide the date of issue of the order response.