Validator Configuration for XRechnung

Validator configuration for Universal Business Language (UBL) and UN/CEFACT Invoice and CreditNote documents against EN16931:2017 and the German Core Invoice Usage Specification (CIUS) XRechnung and XRechnung Extension. It needs the Validator to execute the rules.

For general questions to the standard "XRechnung" and related components refer to the official operations and support website.

For further technical information see the specific pages on usage and on development.

Releases

Each release contains all necessary XML Schema and Schematron rules to validate UBL and CII invoice XML documents for conformity with CIUS and Extension XRechnung.

In particular this Validator Configuration integrates the following third-party artifacts:

• Schematron of EN16931:2017
• Schematron of CIUS XRechnung
• XML Schema of UBL Invoice and CreditNote version 2.1
• XML Schema of UN/CEFACT uncoupled version 16B

Versioning

The git master branch always has the latest code. Since March 2018 new releases have the following naming and versioning scheme:

The source code gets tagged with release-${release-date} and distributions get the name validator-configuration-xrechnung_${xrechnung-version}_${release-date} e.g. validator-configuration-xrechnung_3.0.1_2023-09-22.zip