einvoice / EN 16931 / XRechnung rule reference
PEPPOL-EN16931-R008
Document MUST not contain empty elements.
Das Dokument DARF keine leeren Elemente enthalten.
Deutsche Fassung: Übersetzung der gleichen BT/BG-Semantik (translation — not the official assert).
- Requires
- Document MUST not contain empty elements.
- Business terms
- — (no single business term)
- Syntax
- Binds the UBL-2.1 Invoice / CreditNote syntax and the UN/CEFACT-CII syntax
- Location
//*[not(*) and not(normalize-space())]- Fix
- Correct `//*[not(*) and not(normalize-space())]` so that Document MUST not contain empty elements.
- Fix (Deutsch)
- Korrigieren Sie `//*[not(*) and not(normalize-space())]`, sodass gilt: Das Dokument DARF keine leeren Elemente enthalten.
- Severity
- fatal
- Provenance source
xrechnung-ubl- Provenance assert
Document MUST not contain empty elements.
No UN/CEFACT-CII path for this rule is published here; Fix and Fix (Deutsch), verbatim from remediation_catalog.json and not reworded here; the UN/CEFACT-CII binding of this rule is differentially proven against the official KoSIT XRechnung 2.5.0 (XRechnung 3.0.2) Schematron.
Everything here is free and open source — pick up whatever helps, at your own pace:
- Licensing — Apache-2.0 for everyone, including closed-source embedding; an optional $29 / $290 commercial license adds support and rule-corpus update notices.
- German remediation (
--lang de) — the German fix for this rule is in the section above; the CLI surfaces it in place of the English message with--lang de. - Quickstart / free on-ramp — the README, a copy-paste CI-gate recipe, and a 5-minute worked walkthrough.