Author: G. Ken Holman
Date: $Date: 2003/01/26 22:22:16 $(UTC)
Copyright © 2003 OASIS
1 | Despatch advice formatting specification |
1.1 | Status |
1.2 | Example renderings and implementations |
1.3 | Layout order and information |
This formatting specification describes a rendering of the UBL Despatch Advice document model according to the United Nations Layout Key for Trade Documents guidelines for application for the 351 despatch advice form:
351 Despatch Advice: Document by means of which the seller or consignor informs the consignee about the despatch of goods.
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:
PDF printable format (A4 page size)
PDF printable format (US letter page size)
HTML browser format
Note the above examples are produced using Crane's XSLT and XSL-FO stylesheets and the PDF is created by running the Antenna House XSL Formatter Version 2.3 http://www.AntennaHouse.com (with their gracious permission) to produce PostScript from XSL-FO and GhostScript AFPL http://www.GhostScript.com to distill PDF from the PostScript.
Example implementations:
These implementations must not be considered as reference implementations of UBL formatting specifications or as normative components of the UBL delivery; they are merely examples from what will probably be many available UBL stylesheet libraries.
An up-to-date list of pointers to the source of these materials, and other published libraries of formatting specifications when they become available, will be found in a supplementary package linked from the UBL Library Content Subcommittee portal at http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc.
XSLT and XSL-FO stylesheets in clear text from Crane Softwrights Ltd.:
release version: crane-ublss-20030126-2230.zip
latest version: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/res-ublo.htm
Java JAR standalone implementation of Crane's XSLT and XSL-FO stylesheets from Ambrosoft, Inc.:
release version: ambrosoft-crane-ublss-20030126-1539.zip
latest version: http://www.ambrosoft.com
At this early stage, only a layout has been mocked up.
If you have any input regarding which UBL elements and attributes belong in which layout fields, please consider contributing your time to our effort or at the least submitting your ideas for our consideration. Thank you!
Formatting specifications for UBL Despatch Advice instances
G. Ken Holman
Copyright © 2003 OASIS
$Date: 2003/01/26 22:22:16 $(UTC)