This page lists supporting materials for OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) 1.0, which was ratified as an OASIS Standard in November 2004. UBL 1.0 has been superseded by UBL 2.0, which became an OASIS Standard in December 2006. However, materials linked from this page may still prove useful to UBL 1.0 users. Note that the UBL 1.0 specification itself (first link below) contains a variety of supporting materials as part of the release package. For UBL 2.0 supporting materials, see the UBL 2.0 Support Page:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl-ssc
The UBL 1.0 specification itself (zip file, 7.4 MB).
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0.zip
The XML naming and design rules used in the generation of UBL 1.0 XML schemas. The UBL 1.0 NDR document is itself an OASIS Standard.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10323/cd-UBL-NDR-1.0Rev1c.pdf
All 600+ data definitions in the UBL 1.0 Standard translated into Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15631/cd-UBL-1.0-IDD-1.ods
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12242/cd-UBL-1.0-IDD-1.xls
A later draft (not yet approved as a TC deliverable) adds Italian.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19298/wd-UBL-1.0-IDD-2.ods
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19299/wd-UBL-1.0-IDD-2.xls
A subset or profile of UBL 1.0 designed for small businesses (zip file, 1.5 MB).
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs-UBL-1.0-SBS-1.0.zip
UBL has been designed to make the production of printed output as easy as possible. The UBL 1.0 specification contains mappings from each of the eight UBL 1.0 documents to the corresponding paper layouts defined by the international standard UN Layout Key (UNLK). The resources below allow any compliant UBL 1.0 document to be rendered in a UNLK format.
Crane stylesheets for UBL 1.0
Crane Softwrights Ltd. has released for free download a suite of XSLT/XSL-FO stylesheets for converting UBL 1.0 document instances into either HTML or PDF presentations. The stylesheet library runs with any conformant XSLT 1.0 transformation engine and any conformant XSL-FO 1.0 rendering engine, and it includes a signature manifest for the Ibex XSL-FO engine.
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/uss-ublo.htm
Ibex UBL formatter
Visual Programming Ltd. has announced the availability of a free version of their Ibex XSL-FO engine supporting digitally-signed stylesheets. This product transforms any UBL 1.0 XML document instance directly into a PDF file using the Crane UBL stylesheets.
http://www.xmlpdf.com/ibex-downloads-signed.html
Ambrosoft UBL transformer
Ambrosoft has released a free Java formatter that implements the Crane UBL stylesheets as a single executable jar file. The Ambrosoft UBL transformer runs on any Java platform and will transform any UBL 1.0 document instance into HTML that can be displayed or printed out using an ordinary web browser. It can also create an XSL-FO file for further processing by an XSL-FO engine.
http://www.ambrosoft.com/