The SixBit Application Programming Interface
Best Practices for XML Parameters

All add and update calls require an XML parameter to provide information about the objects being processed.  For example, an Item_AddUpdate method requires an XML document with an Items element containing one or more Item element tags.  The schema for the XML objects can be found at SixBit API Schema.

The first thing the API call will do is to parse the input XML against the XSD to verify it is accurate.  However, when creating XML programatically, we also recommend parsing against the XSD schema before making the call.

The complete schema for the SixBit API is called SixBitAPI.xsd and can be found in the SDK folder in the SixBit installed directory.

See Handling Dates for more information on how dates are handled in XML.

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