Hotel Ads Schemas

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:

Schema Download	Applicable pricing delivery modes	Schema Location
Hotel List	All	gstatic.com/localfeed/local_feed.xsd
Landing pages	All	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/point_of_sale.xsd
Transaction (Property Data)	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/transaction_property_data.xsd
Transaction (Property Data) Response	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/transaction_property_data_response.xsd
OTA_HotelRateAmountNotifRQ	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/ota_hotel_rate_amount_notif_rq.xsd
OTA_HotelRateAmountNotifRS	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/ota_hotel_rate_amount_notif_rs.xsd
OTA_HotelAvailNotifRQ	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/ota_hotel_avail_notif_rq.xsd
OTA_HotelAvailNotifRS	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/ota_hotel_avail_notif_rs.xsd
OTA_HotelInvCountNotifRQ	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/ota_hotel_inv_count_notif_rq.xsd
OTA_HotelInvCountNotifRS	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/ota_hotel_inv_count_notif_rs.xsd
TaxFeeInfo	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/tax_fee_info.xsd
TaxFeeInfoResponse	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/tax_fee_info_response.xsd
Promotions	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/promotions.xsd
PromotionsResponse	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/promotions_response.xsd
RateModifications	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/rate_modifications.xsd
RateModificationsResponse	ARI	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/rate_modifications_response.xsd
Transaction	Pull, Changed Pricing	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/transaction.xsd
Rate rules	Pull, Changed Pricing	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/private_rates.xsd
Hint Response	Changed Pricing	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/hint.xsd
Query (from Google to partners)	Pull, Changed Pricing, Live Pricing Query	gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/query.xsd

Key Point: Some schemas reference include files with relative paths. Includes with relative paths can be found in the same directory as the file them. For example, "tax_fee_info.xsd" definition includes "common_types.xsd" and both of these files can be found in "gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/". Therefore, common_types.xsd can be found at "gstatic.com/ads-travel/hotels/api/common_types.xsd".

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

Important: Use http: for the schema_location URL since xmllint doesn't support https:.

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