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 invoice by the seller.

This field states the date of the invoice for tax purposes

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

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

This fields provides the issue date of 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.

These fields provide the name and address of the buyer's bank.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These fields provide information relating to the payment terms.

This specifies the payment currency for the entire invoice.

These fields provide the name and address of the seller's bank.

This field contains the sort code for the seller's bank.

This field contains the seller's account number.

This field contains the seller's account name.

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

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

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

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

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

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 fields states the number of items invoiced 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 invoice, for specific invoice clauses or declarations.

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

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

This fields provides details of any tax associated to the entire invoice, this amount will not be calculated it will be transmitted

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

This fields specifies the amount to be paid and will not be 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 invoice.

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