Before submitting your feeds to Google, you should validate them with one of the following methods:
- Feed Validation tool
- Schemas (below)
The following table lists the available schemas that you can use to validate your feeds against:
| Schema (Download) | Schema (Location) |
|---|---|
| Hotel List Feed | http://www.gstatic.com/localfeed/local_feed.xsd |
| Hint Response | http://www.gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/hint.xsd |
| Landing Pages | http://www.gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/point_of_sale.xsd |
| Private Rates | http://www.gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/private_rates.xsd |
| Query | http://www.gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/query.xsd |
| Rate Types | http://www.gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/rate_types.xsd |
| Transaction | http://www.gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/transaction.xsd |
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://www.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 only showing the errors if they exist:
$ xmllint --noout --schema http://www.gstatic.com/localfeed/local_feed.xsd myfeed.xml