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XSD EDItEUR · 3.0, code lists issue 75

ONIX for Books 3.0

ONIX for Books 3.0 (reference tags)

ONIX 3.0 book metadata with reference tag names, the version most trading partners still take.

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About

ONIX 3.0 has been the main book trade version since 2009; 3.1 extends it. Many retailers accept only 3.0.

Good to know

  • The schemas are kept exactly as EDItEUR publishes them. The example is the sample file that ships with them.

Files

3 files · 1.9 MB

The validator loads all of these with their folder structure, so includes and imports resolve as published.

Example document

Onix3sample_refnames.xml · 17.2 KB · valid against this schema

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In CI and from code

The same schema by its name, onix-3.0, through the API.

npx @xmlvalid/cli validate "**/*.xml" --schema onix-3.0
- uses: xmlvalid/validate-action@v1
  with:
    files: "**/*.xml"
    schema: onix-3.0
    api-key: ${{ secrets.XMLVALID_API_KEY }}
curl https://xmlvalid.com/api/v1/validations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $XMLVALID_API_KEY" \
  -F document={{ $schema->example ?? 'document.xml' }} -F schema=onix-3.0

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