Re: XML schema of EDIFACT INVOIC (e-Invoice) messages

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

I would check UBL.

Duane

Szabó Áron wrote:

>Electronic invoices must be acceptable either they are based on EDI systems
>or XML solutions. The structure of the messages can be the same (the used
>technology is indifferent), EDIFACT tags can be defined in XML either,
>EDIFACT message structures can be mapped to XML schemas. Our university
>wants to issue electronic invoices that can be managed by the inner
>information system (for student administration), but I haven't found
>anything about the XML schema-based structure of an electronic invoice. In
>the ebXML Message Service Specification I've found something about Payload
>Containers but I don't know where to find detailed definitions of XML
>schemas (e.g. specification of <Invoicedata>)... Perhaps in ISO/TS 15000
>series of standards?
>
>Content-ID: <domainname.example.com>
>Content-Type: application/xml
>
><Invoice>
><Invoicedata>
>...
></Invoicedata>
></Invoice>
>
>If there is still no internationally accepted XML schema for e-Invoice
>messages (either based on EDIFACT or based on other standard) what should we
>use? The CEN/ISSS says (CWA 14711), that ebXML is working on defining
>interoperable e-Invoice message structures and ISO TS 20625 is just an
>interim solution for mapping EDIFACT messages to XML schemas.
>
>The big question:
>
>If there is no other solution, is it good that I'll transform EDIFACT INVOIC
>D04A (final standard issued by UNECE UN/EDIFACT: 2004-05-18) e-Invoice
>message structure to XML schema based on the mapping rules of ISO/TS 20625?
>
>Best regards,
>Aron
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>Research Associate,
>Center of Information Technology
>Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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