Hotel Ads Schemas

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• Feeds submitted to Google can be validated using published schemas.

• A table lists the available schemas for validation, indicating applicable pricing delivery modes and schema locations.

• Some schemas reference include files with relative paths which can be found in the same directory as the referencing file.

• You can use third-party XML tools like xmllint to validate your files against these schemas.

• When using xmllint , use http: for the schema location URL as xmllint does not support https: .

Before submitting your feeds to Google, you can validate them with published schemas.

The following table lists the available schemas that you can use to validate your feeds against:

How to validate files

To validate your files with these schemas, you can use a third-party XML tool such as xmllint .

The syntax for using xmllint to validate a schema is as follows:

 xmllint  
--schema  
 schema_location 
  
 file_to_validate 
 

The following example validates the mypriceupdates.xml file against the Transaction message schema:

 xmllint  
--schema  
http://gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/transaction.xsd  
mypriceupdates.xml 

The following example validates the myfeed.xml file against the Hotel List Feed schema and shows errors if they exist:

 xmllint  
--noout  
--schema  
http://gstatic.com/localfeed/local_feed.xsd  
myfeed.xml