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Wouldn't it be cool if invoices had a spec (xml or json) with specific fields that had specific meaning and then we could use something like CSS to make them "p
by foxhop 9y ago
Wouldn't it be cool if invoices had a spec (xml or json) with specific fields that had specific meaning and then we could use something like CSS to make them "pretty" and branded.
This would save from having to parse anything.
To create a bill-of-materials you simply would attach a bunch of invoices from a bunch of vendors. There are jobs out there of people who fetch invoices and then transform them into in-house systems all manually.
- LeonM 9y agoThis XML spec does exist, it's called UBL. However adoption of this is slow and still quite uncertain. As always, many companies try to make money by creating their own flavour and trying to license it (unfortunate with success) and of course all these competing standards are not compatible with each other. Since digital bookkeeping is ubiquitous nowadays, one could argue that invoicing is simply about sharing digital transactions between systems, and should not need to be 'pretty' or human readable at all. I'm trying to bridge this gap, and I know that given enough time, my service will become obsolete. But I'm goign higly off-topic now ;-)
- tonyedgecombe 9y ago"my service will become obsolete" I don't think you need to worry for a long time.
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