EDItX XML Document Formats
EDItX XML Document Formats were developed jointly by BISG, BIC and EDItEUR. They are meant to mirror and extend the functionality of existing X12, TRADACOMS and EDIFACT messages for the book trade and library sectors.
In each case, the Outline Specification is recommended as an introduction to the format and the functionality which it supports. The XML Schema contains text files which together constitute a formal definition allowing standard XML software to parse, verify and operate on the content of correctly formulated EDItX messages.
Working closely with EDItEUR, BISG has developed both XML and flat file (Excel) formats versions of EDItEUR's new EDItX Sales and Tax Report, version 1.1, which are designed to meet North American book trade requirements. The BISG Sales and Tax Reports are intended to be used by a retailer, distributor or other intermediary, or by an agent reporting on their behalf, to report sales and sales tax to a publisher or content owner.
Such sales reports are the basis on which payments are made to the publisher, either by the seller or, if the seller is a branch of a larger organization that purchases centrally, by the central "buyer." The reports are suitable for use with both agency and wholesale models, and in both digital and non-digital book product supply chains.
Outline Specification
XML Schema and Sample Data
The documentation and XML schema for EDItX Sales Report Version 1.0 and the original Digital Sales Report are still available on the EDItEUR website.
The EDItX Inventory Report format is intended to be used by a retailer, distributor or other intermediary managing inventory (on consignment or otherwise) on behalf of the publisher or content owner, or by an agent reporting on their behalf, to report inventory levels to the publisher.
Inventory reports may be used to report inventory levels and movements in those markets where various forms of inventory management are practiced.
The format has been derived from the EDItX Sales Report format 1.0. It is intended that the format be implemented in digital (on a physical carrier such as a CD, or online if the seller has been allocated a finite number of licenses to sell), non-digital or mixed book product supply chains, depending upon local market requirements.
Outline Specification
XML Schema
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.
Outline Specifications
This EDItX document is the first of a family of formats for library supply, covering transactions between library booksellers and libraries.
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.
Outline Specifications
XML Schemas
This EDItX document is the first of a family of formats for consumer direct fulfillment (CDF), covering transactions between (typically) Internet booksellers and wholesalers, where the wholesaler delivers direct to the consumer who placed an order with the bookseller.
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.
Outline Specifications
XML Schemas
- Sales and Tax Reports
- Inventory Reporting
- Trade Book Supply Transactions
- Library Supply Transactions
- Consumer Direct Fulfillment (CDF)
In each case, the Outline Specification is recommended as an introduction to the format and the functionality which it supports. The XML Schema contains text files which together constitute a formal definition allowing standard XML software to parse, verify and operate on the content of correctly formulated EDItX messages.
Sales and Tax Reports
Published June 2011 | Revised February 2012Working closely with EDItEUR, BISG has developed both XML and flat file (Excel) formats versions of EDItEUR's new EDItX Sales and Tax Report, version 1.1, which are designed to meet North American book trade requirements. The BISG Sales and Tax Reports are intended to be used by a retailer, distributor or other intermediary, or by an agent reporting on their behalf, to report sales and sales tax to a publisher or content owner.
Such sales reports are the basis on which payments are made to the publisher, either by the seller or, if the seller is a branch of a larger organization that purchases centrally, by the central "buyer." The reports are suitable for use with both agency and wholesale models, and in both digital and non-digital book product supply chains.
Outline Specification
- BISG Flat File Sales Report [Excel doc]
- BISG XML Sales Report [Excel doc]
- BISG Flat File Tax Report [Excel doc]
- BISG XML Tax Report [Excel doc]
XML Schema and Sample Data
- BISG Sales Report (XML Schema) [XSD file]
- BISG Sales Report (Sample Data) [XML doc]
- BISG Tax Report (XML Schema) [XSD file]
- BISG Tax Report (Sample Data) [XML doc]
The documentation and XML schema for EDItX Sales Report Version 1.0 and the original Digital Sales Report are still available on the EDItEUR website.
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Inventory Reporting
Last Updated July 2009The EDItX Inventory Report format is intended to be used by a retailer, distributor or other intermediary managing inventory (on consignment or otherwise) on behalf of the publisher or content owner, or by an agent reporting on their behalf, to report inventory levels to the publisher.
Inventory reports may be used to report inventory levels and movements in those markets where various forms of inventory management are practiced.
The format has been derived from the EDItX Sales Report format 1.0. It is intended that the format be implemented in digital (on a physical carrier such as a CD, or online if the seller has been allocated a finite number of licenses to sell), non-digital or mixed book product supply chains, depending upon local market requirements.
Outline Specification
XML Schema
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Trade Book Supply Transactions
Last Updated May 2010These 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.
Outline Specifications
- Order Version 1.3 (PDF)
- Order Response and Order Status Report Version 1.2 (PDF)
- Order Status Enquiry and Order Cancellation Version 1.1 (PDF)
- Advanced Ship Notice Version 1.1 (PDF)
- Stock Enquiry and Stock Report Version 1.1 (PDF)
- Invoice Version 1.2 (PDF)
- Credit Note Version 1.0 (PDF)
- Returns Request Version 1.0 (PDF)
- Returns Response Version 1.0 (PDF)
- XML Message Issue Version 1.3 (PDF)
- Order Version 1.3 (ZIP)
- Order Response Version 1.2 (ZIP)
- Order Status Enquiry Version 1.1 (ZIP)
- Order Status Report Version 1.2 (ZIP)
- Order Cancellation Version 1.1 (ZIP)
- Advance Ship Notice Version 1.1 (ZIP)
- Stock Enquiry Version 1.1 (ZIP)
- Stock Report Version 1.1 (ZIP)
- Invoice Version 1.2 (ZIP)
- Credit Note Version 1.0 (ZIP)
- Returns Request Version 1.0 (ZIP)
- Returns Response Version 1.0 (ZIP)
- XML Message Issue 1.3 June 2010 (ZIP)
- Code Lists Issue 4a (ZIP)
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Library Supply Transactions
Last Updated June 2008This EDItX document is the first of a family of formats for library supply, covering transactions between library booksellers and libraries.
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.
Outline Specifications
XML Schemas
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Consumer Direct Fulfillment (CDF)
Last Updated June 2008This EDItX document is the first of a family of formats for consumer direct fulfillment (CDF), covering transactions between (typically) Internet booksellers and wholesalers, where the wholesaler delivers direct to the consumer who placed an order with the bookseller.
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.
Outline Specifications
XML Schemas
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