EN16931 / XRechnung / Peppol BIS 3 Validator

NL-R-009: For suppliers in the Netherlands, if an order line reference…

fatal UBL

What this error means and how to fix it

A national rule of Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 for the country in the rule prefix (for example NO, DK, IT, SE, GR): it usually applies when the seller is in that country. This is an error: the invoice is rejected until it is fixed.

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Rule text

[NL-R-009]-For suppliers in the Netherlands, if an order line reference (cac:OrderLineReference/cbc:LineID) is used, there must be an order reference on the document level (cac:OrderReference/cbc:ID)
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatalcac:OrderLineReference/cbc:LineID[$supplierCountryIsNL]exists(/*/cac:OrderReference/cbc:ID)

Source: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 Schematron, UBL (OpenPeppol, docs.peppol.eu validation artefacts 3.0.21).

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