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BR-16 – No invoice lines

What the rule says

An Invoice shall have at least one Invoice line (BG-25)

How to fix it

Add at least one cac:InvoiceLine (cac:CreditNoteLine for credit notes).

UBL: cac:InvoiceLine

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Where it is checked in the XML

Context: /ubl:Invoice | /cn:CreditNote

Test (XPath):

exists(cac:InvoiceLine) or exists(cac:CreditNoteLine)

Related rules

• BR-01 An Invoice shall have a Specification identifier (BT-24)
• BR-02 Invoice number missing
• BR-03 An Invoice shall have an Invoice issue date (BT-2)
• BR-04 An Invoice shall have an Invoice type code (BT-3)
• BR-05 Invoice currency missing
• BR-06 Seller name missing
• BR-07 Buyer name missing
• BR-08 Seller address missing
• BR-09 The Seller postal address (BG-5) shall contain a Seller country code (BT-40)
• BR-10 Buyer address missing
• BR-11 The Buyer postal address shall contain a Buyer country code (BT-55)
• BR-12 An Invoice shall have the Sum of Invoice line net amount (BT-106)