This is the base module for the implementation of the Universal Business Language (UBL) standard. The UBL standard became the ISO/IEC 19845 standard in January 2016 (cf the official announce).
This module contains methods to generate and parse UBL files. This module doesn't do anything useful by itself, but it is used by several other modules:
- purchase_order_ubl that generate UBL purchase orders,
- sale_order_import_ubl that imports UBL sale orders.
- account_invoice_import_ubl that imports UBL invoices,
auto_awesome What this module does
AI-generated from the code · Odoo 19.0Technical foundation module that provides shared tools to create and read UBL (Universal Business Language) XML files. It adds no menus or screens; other modules use it to exchange electronic business documents.
This is a hidden, technical module. It does not add any menu, screen, button or report that a user can open directly. Its purpose is to give other modules a common set of tools for working with UBL, the international standard format for electronic business documents.
What it provides:
- A shared component (an abstract model named
base.ubl) that other modules build on to generate and read UBL XML files. - A validation step that checks a generated or received UBL XML file against the official XML Schema Definition for the chosen document type and version (default version 2.1). If the file does not match the official schema, the operation is stopped and an error message is shown to the user, while the file and the full technical error are written to the server logs.
- A helper that returns the standard XML namespaces used in UBL documents, so the produced files follow the official structure.
Because it only depends on base, it does not touch sales, purchases, invoices or inventory by itself. Its behaviour becomes visible only through the modules that depend on it, such as those that import or export UBL orders and invoices. In short, it is plumbing: it makes sure UBL files exchanged by other modules are well-formed and valid, but it adds nothing users can click on.
Depends on
Required by other modules
Models and fields (1)
- base.ubl · new model
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Availability by version
Reviewed: 2026-11-03Confirmation status: 8 confirmed, 1 with no information of 9 versions.
Sources · Odoo 15.0
Confirmed on 2026-11-03 in branch 15.0 of OCA/edi.
terminal Installation and usage
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