Schemas
Three schemas will cater for the different categories of notices. Table 1 provides the correspondence between notice categories and the schemas.
For Change notices, the required schema is the one of the notice subject to changes (e.g. a Change Notice for a change applied to an existing Contract Notice shall comply with the ContractNotice schema).
Notice category | Notice Type | Schema |
---|---|---|
Prior Information / Periodic Indicative Notice |
|
PriorInformationNotice |
Contract Notice |
|
ContractNotice |
Direct Award Pre-notification Notice |
|
ContractAwardNotice |
Contract Award Notice |
|
|
Contract Modification Notice |
|
|
Change Notice |
|
Any of the 3 |
The schemas are built using elements from different namespaces (some defined by UBL, others created for the purpose of eForms) and a version number will be used to distinguish different releases. Information on namespaces and schema versioning is provided below.
Namespaces
The namespaces used in the eForms schemas are described below in Table 3.
Please note that the names below are URIs (i.e. Uniform Resource Identifiers) used to uniquely identify the domains. They are not URLs (i.e. Uniform Resource Locators) to any online resource.
Prefix |
Name |
Description |
— |
urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:PriorInformationNotice-2 urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:ContractNotice-2 urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:ContractAwardNotice-2 |
No namespace prefix for the root element |
cac |
urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2 |
Covers all UBL common aggregated components |
cbc |
urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2 |
Covers all UBL common basic components |
ext |
urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonExtensionComponents-2 |
Covers all UBL common extension components |
efext |
http://data.europa.eu/p27/eforms-ubl-extensions/1 |
Covers all eForms specific extension components |
efac |
http://data.europa.eu/p27/eforms-ubl-extension-aggregate-components/1 |
Covers all eForms specific extension aggregate components |
efbc |
http://data.europa.eu/p27/eforms-ubl-extension-basic-components/1 |
Covers all eForms specific extension basic components |
Versioning
Please consult the versioning information provided in detail here.