Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual page 49

Product Advertising API Developer Guide
For example, when you add Variations to the preceding request, the response includes, in addition to
what is shown, variations and their offers, as shown in the following response snippet.
<Offer>
...
<OfferListing>
<OfferListingId>4L2h0ymPZs3lDap8fU9Kw8hmKiPs5qVknFiifrviXAkRDZivZpZsSfTe0YM
Ltbo6MVWHTCzyKjT9UZI%2BpvF8Ax%2BFeSG29QGqQ4eF6ZspRD5fdxj8zmRp%2Bw%3D%3D</Offer
ListingId>
...
</Offer>
<Offer>
...
<OfferListing>
aB5fNhlF7yRMeh19NJxBEBBNz9GDFMMYtH0EI06Y1Vbar7raOf6ieUnzzST94RN8wwiXpEn2jaW
mZ%2F%2BYc7Q%3D%3D</OfferListingId>
Each of these offers is associated with an Item element and each of these items is a variation. The
following snippet, which comes from the same response, shows how each variation is differentiated by
size.
<Item>
<ItemAttributes>
<Brand>Eddie Bauer</Brand>
...
</ItemAttributes>
<VariationAttributes>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>Small Regular<Value>
</VariationAttribute>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>Medium Regular</Value>
</VariationAttribute>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>Large Regular<Value>
</VariationAttribute>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>X-Large Regular<Value>
</VariationAttribute>
</VariationAttributes>
...
</Item>
Returning Variation Dimension Information Only
The Variations and VariationSummary response groups return a great deal of information about each
item in the response.
To see the values of the variation dimensions
• Use the VariationMatrix response group in an ItemSearch request.
Variations
<OfferListingId>PCOIjALkrkCts8UYi3pqf%2BqBaH5xbmJfiko
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