Hotel Ads Schemas

  • 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:

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

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