Factur-X / ZUGFeRD BASIC WL
The Factur-X and ZUGFeRD profile with header data and totals but no invoice lines.
About
BASIC WL (without lines) carries what accounting needs to book the invoice; the lines stay in the PDF. In Germany it does not count as an electronic invoice on its own.
Two layers are checked: the profile schema, then the profile's Schematron rules with their code lists.
Good to know
- In the validator you can drop the PDF itself: its XML attachment is opened and the profile picked from its specification identifier. So do the API and the command-line client. Rules run only when the document matches the schema.
- The schemas, rules, code lists and example come from the akretion/factur-x library, which ships the official files unchanged.
Files
4 files · 16.9 KB-
basicwl/Factur-X_BASICWL.xsd main
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basicwl/Factur-X_1.09_BASICWL_urn_un_unece_uncefact_data_standard_QualifiedDataType_100.xsd
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basicwl/Factur-X_1.09_BASICWL_urn_un_unece_uncefact_data_standard_ReusableAggregateBusinessInformationEntity_100.xsd
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basicwl/Factur-X_1.09_BASICWL_urn_un_unece_uncefact_data_standard_UnqualifiedDataType_100.xsd
The validator loads all of these with their folder structure, so includes and imports resolve as published.
Business rules
Schematron · run in this orderThe rules run after the schema check, only when the document matches the schema, and in your browser like the schema check (with SaxonJS by Saxonica). Each finding names its rule, such as BR-CO-15, and the line it points at; each rule has a page with what it checks.
Example document
factur-x-basicwl.xml · 32.1 KB · passes the schema and the rules
In CI and from code
The same schema by its name, factur-x-basic-wl, through the API.
npx @xmlvalid/cli validate "**/*.xml" --schema factur-x-basic-wl
- uses: xmlvalid/validate-action@v1
with:
files: "**/*.xml"
schema: factur-x-basic-wl
api-key: ${{ secrets.XMLVALID_API_KEY }}
curl https://xmlvalid.com/api/v1/validations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $XMLVALID_API_KEY" \
-F document={{ $schema->example ?? 'document.xml' }} -F schema=factur-x-basic-wl
Free accounts get 100 API validations a month. On Pro, a URL monitor can check a published document against this schema every hour and email you when it breaks. More CI setups