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Trade Book Supply

Order - Order Response - Order Status Enquiry - Order Status Report - Order Cancellation - Advance Ship Notice - Stock Enquiry - Stock Report - Invoice - Credit Note - Returns Request - Returns Response - XML Message - XML Message Acknowledgement

These EDItX formats are intended for general book trade use, covering transactions between retailers, wholesalers and publishers where ordered items are supplied to, and for resale by, the trade customer responsible for sending the order.

Each transaction has its own individual XML schema file, but all share a single code list file. This will enable new issues of the code lists to be made without a new version of the schemas that use them.

The set of EDItX transaction formats listed below was originally released collectively in April 2007. An earlier release in 2004 did not include a full set of transaction types and had not been widely implemented.

The June 2008 release includes corrected versions of the Order, Order Response, Order Status Report, Advance Ship Notice and Stock Report formats (indicated by *), and a revised Invoice format (indicated by ‘Version 1.1'), which has been extended to support CDF invoicing. With the exception of the Message format (see below) all other formats are unchanged. See the specifications of each of the corrected and revised formats for further details. For details of the CDF Order and Order Response formats, see the CDF transactions section.

The EDItX transaction formats include an XML Message format, intended to be used for transmission of multiple transactions of the same type as a single message in XML format. This format has been revised (v1.2) in December 2009 to include the new Credit Note format as well as the existing Sales Report and Inventory Report formats. A corresponding Message Acknowledgement format was released in April 2007. These formats can be used to enable business systems to send, receive and acknowledge receipt of multiple transactions independently of whatever message transport protocol (e.g. FTP, email, AS2, web services) is used. The XML Message schema includes all the separate transaction formats combined in a single schema module. The XML Message schema module, XML Message Acknowledgement schema module and code list module are downloadable as a single ZIP package.

Note that the code list module is downloadable separately from all the individual format packages and is not included in the ZIP packages for the individual formats.

Issue 3 of the EDItX code lists was released simultaneously with the June 2008 release of the EDItX Trade, CDF and Library formats.

Version 1.2 of the EDItX Trade Order format was released in November 2008, with the sole purpose of enabling the format to be used to communicate orders via routing services such as TeleOrdering in the UK. With the exception of the change in version number, no existing implementations are invalidated by this version.

The Release in February 2010 includes new versions of the Trade Order (V1.3), Order Response (V1.2) and Order Status Report (V1.2) schemas with corresponding outline specifications. Issue 4 of the EDItX code lists is being released simultaneously. The XML Message Acknowledgement schema has been revised (V1.1). The Trade Credit Note (V1.0) schema has been adjusted to use the revised code lists module.

Outline Specifications

XML Schemas
Note that ALL transaction schemas require the accompanying Code Lists file, which must be placed in the same folder as the schema file.