eBay Trading API
Call Reference Version 579

A string containing a list of all the attributes that are applicable to the site (or characteristic sets in the request), along with related meta-data. The meta-data specifies all the possible values of each attribute, the logic for presenting attributes to a user, and rules for validating the user's selections. Individual elements are not described in the eBay schema format. For information about each element in the AttributeData string, see the attribute model documentation in the eBay Web Services guide (see links below).

Because this is returned as a string, the XML markup elements are escaped with character entity references (e.g., <eBay><Attributes> ...). See the appendices in the eBay Web Services guide for general information about string data types.

Current version of the Item Specifics meta-data system for the site. This value changes each time changes are made to the meta-data. The current version value is not necessarily greater than the previous value. Therefore, when comparing versions, only compare whether the value has changed.