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Issue 2.0 / December 2014

Table of Contents

Title Page (Document Summary/Disclaimer)

Purpose and scope

GS1 set of XML standards

GS1 XML versioning

Extension element

Attribute Value Pairs – AVP

Communicating GS1 trade item numbers

XML syntax components used in GS1 XML 3

GS1 XML schema hierarchy

GS1 XML message achitecture

Main differences between the GS1 XML 3 and 2

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