Numbered Elements

 

The Cybersource XML schema includes several numbered elements. You can include these complex elements more than once in a request. For example, when a customer order includes more than one item, you must include multiple <item> elements in your request. Each item is numbered, starting with 0. The XML schema uses an id attribute in the item’s opening tag to indicate the number. For example:

<item id="0">

As a name-value pair field name, this tag is called item_0. In this portion of the field name, the underscore before the number does not indicate hierarchy in the XML schema. The item fields are generically referred to as item_#_<element name> in the documentation.

Below is an example of the numbered <item> element and the corresponding name-value pair field names. If you are using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the client contains a corresponding Item class.