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.

This number is a unique number assigned to the despatch advice by the seller.

This number is a unique number assigned to the despatch advice by the seller.

This field provides a seller assigned reference to the order corresponding to this despatch advice.

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

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

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

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

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 despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

The item field is the identification of the despatch line according to the seller's system.

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 states the number of items to be delivered for the line item.

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

At this time this field is not being used in the despatch advice.

These fields provides the contact name and telephone number for this despatch advice.