Best practices for creating custom output XML templates

You can create custom output XML templates. These templates will work best when using the best practices that are suggested.

Whenever you call an API, you need to pass your own customized template, not the sample provided by the application. This section helps guide your decision-making processes in planning how to design custom output templates.

In general, when you customize an output template, you do so by editing a copy of the standard template. You cannot modify the standard output template.

There are two ways of customizing and calling the output template. Which function you choose depends on the size and type of the data set you want returned by the API.