Organization of the Schema

Several element types are re-used by various forms. These have been defined in a separate schema file: Globals.xsd. For convenience, these global definitions are also included in each individual form schema.

The E-Filing schema supports the ability to transmit multiple bankruptcy or proposal documents in a single upload file. The schema definition: Filing.xsd describes the format used to combine multiple documents into a single electronic filing. The Filing is a simple "envelope" consisting of three elements. The mandatory Source element holds information identifying the software used to produce the filing file. Tool vendors are encouraged to populate the vendor, name and version attributes with their company name, product name, and product version respectively. This will aid significantly in the resolution of errors during the testing phase of the E-Filing project. The Created attribute contains a timestamp identifying when the file was produced. Finally, a Filing contains one or more Document elements. The Document element requires two mandatory attributes:

• name identifies the type of the form or document contained within the Document element. This name should be identical to the name of the form schema without the .xsd extension.
• version identifies the display version of the form. Form versions are made up of a year and a month. The current version of the forms is either "2006-07", or a version between "2010-08" and "2020-04" depending on the filing date of the estate and the document name, see Index of Individual Form Schema for a listing of the current version for each form.

In addition, two optional elements: language and type are allowed. These are included for future functionality and can be omitted for now.

Examples

A sample of an electronic filing is shown below or view this test Initial Filing for an example of a complete initial filing for a summary administration.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <!-- Example Electronic Filing -->
   <Filing xmlns="http://www.osb.gc.ca/eFiling">
     <Source vendor="AcmeSoft Inc." name="E-Trustee Suite" version="5.1" />
     <Created>2018-08-31T09:30:47</Created>
     <Document name="Form1" version="2006-07">
        <Form1>
        <!-- Contents of Form 1 -->
        </Form1>
     </Document>
     <Document name="EIS" version="2017-04">
        <EIS>
            <!-- Contents of the Estate Information Sheet -->
        </EIS>
     </Document>
   </Filing>