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Long overdue update to the UBL to UN Layout Key free rendering environment

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Ken Holman
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2011-01-29T19:24:00+00:00
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Long overdue update to the UBL to UN Layout Key free rendering environment
After over two years of neglect, I've finally released the latest  revision of Crane's free environment for rendering UBL invoices to  both HTML and PDF according to the United Nations Layout Key (UNLK):
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ublss/#ubl2-ss
Those who have downloaded and implemented these stylesheets and  runtime in their web sites and products will likely want to get the  latest as there are now command-line options for formatting  choices.  The actual box layouts have not changed, but these features  may be of interest to users.  One interesting feature of the PDF renderings is that I reconstitute  the input UBL XML document and embed it into the PDF in the XMP  metadata in clear text (when the included Ibex commercial XSL-FO  engine is used).  The stylesheet package includes a copy of Crane's free standalone  Python and XSLT package used to extract XMP metadata out of an  uncompressed and unencrypted PDF file and the UBL document encoded  therein in clear text:
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/#XMP
The implication is that by creating a PDF rendering of a UBL document  in this manner, and sending or archiving the one PDF file, the input  UBL instance can be distilled from that file using an open, auditable  and free process.  Please contact us if you have a need for a UBL document rendering  environment according to your own corporate layout and  appearance.  Please include images of sample bogus documents  illustrating your layout requirement for us to use in our estimate.  . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken  cc: UBL TC, UBL-Dev, XML-Dev, Mulberry XSL List

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