Whether your Office is using Hague Web Services (HWS) or EDI SFTP to interface with the Hague System, the electronic payload is the exactly same. This makes it quite easy for EDI users to migrate to HWS. The only difference is that HWS allow no more than one record per payload, whereas EDI allows multiple records in a single payload. As a consequence, EDI Offices that already send single record payloads can, from this perspective, migrate to HWS right away.
Payloads consist in a ZIP file containing 3 kinds of information:
- bibliographic data, in ST.96 XML
- supporting PDF documents
- JPG designs, in the case of an indirect application
The internal structure of the ZIP is unimportant. What counts is that:
- there is one and only one XML file inside the ZIP
- the exact relative path of documents and designs is correctly referenced in the XML
Although the official ST.96 version in force in the Hague System is 7.0, the latter accepts the following ST.96 versions in Hague electronic payloads, for backward compatibility reasons:
- 7.0
- 4.0
- 3.2T1