Supported XML shapes

Generic product XML#

The most common shape: a root element containing one child element per product, with fields as child elements or attributes. Element names vary by supplier (product, item, urun, artikel) and are detected from the content, not the name.

Google Merchant Center feeds#

RSS 2.0 or Atom feeds with fields in the g: namespace (g:id, g:title, g:price, g:sale_price, g:availability, g:image_link, g:item_group_id and so on). Items sharing an item_group_id become variants of one product. See Google Merchant feeds.

RSS and Atom catalogues#

Plain RSS or Atom feeds where each item carries product data in custom or Dublin Core elements. Prices and stock are taken from any element that looks like a price or quantity.

Variant shapes#

• Nested: variants listed under the product element.
• Flat: every variant is its own product element with a parent or group code.
• Attribute-based: size or colour given as attributes rather than elements.

Multi-file catalogues#

Some suppliers split data across files: one XML with product details, another with stock or prices, sometimes a third with images. These are configured by support as a composite feed and behave like a single feed in the app.

Encodings and namespaces#

UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1254 declared in the prolog are handled. Namespaced elements are matched by local name, so g:price and price are treated alike where appropriate.