What else is new in UBL 2.0?
Aside from the new extension area, the biggest change in UBL 2.0 is the addition of 23 new document types to accommodate extended procurement scenarios and basic transport processes. Development of these new schemas was funded directly and indirectly by the governments of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England, Finland, Iceland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States. This practical input makes UBL 2.0 ideally suited for government procurement and basic international trade. UBL 2.0 also features an answer to the problem of code list management. Instead of binding default code list values directly into the document schemas, which makes trading-partner-specific adjustment of code lists virtually impossible, UBL 2.0 expresses code list values in separate files using the new genericode format. The default values are then used to generate an XSLT script that validates the code values independent of the standard schemas. This two-phase approach not only solves most code list management proble
