Variations Response Group; Variation Dimensions - Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual

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Variations Response Group

The Variations response group is a parent response group that returns the contents of the
VariationSummary response group plus other variation details, such as item attributes, offers, and offer
listings for each variation in the response.

Variation Dimensions

A variation is a child ASIN. The parent ASIN is an abstraction of the children items. For example, Shirt
is a parent ASIN. Parent ASINs cannot be sold. A child ASIN of it would be a blue shirt, size 16, sold by
MyApparelStore. This child ASIN is one of potentially many variations. The ways in which variations differ
are called dimensions. In the preceding example, size and color are the dimensions. Parent ASINs
therefore return two related elements:
• VariationDimensions
• VariationDimension
For example,
<VariationDimensions>
<VariationDimension>ClothingSize</VariationDimension>
<VariationDimension>Color</VariationDimension>
</VariationDimensions>
The values returned by these elements are the dimensions listed in the child ASIN's response, for example,
<Item>
...
<ItemAttributes>
...
</ItemAttributes>
<VariationAttributes>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>Color</Name>
<Value>Black<Value>
</VariationAttribute>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>Large</Value>
</VariationAttribute>
</VariationAttributes>
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