My CookBook XML Schema

My CookBook application allows to import your recipes from xml files.

Here is a sample of xml recipes :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<cookbook version="46">
<recipe>
<title>My recipe</title>
<preptime>15 min</preptime>
<cooktime>20 min</cooktime>
<totaltime>35 min</totaltime>
<description>
<li>Desc 1</li>
<li>Desc 2</li>
</description>
<ingredient>
<li>Ingredient 1</li>
<li>Ingredient 2</li>
</ingredient>
<recipetext>
<li>Step 1</li>
<li>Step 2</li>
</recipetext>
<url>http://www.recipeurl</url>
<video>http://www.videourl</video>
<quantity>4</quantity>
<imagepath>/mnt/sdcard/MyCookBook/images/recipe_img.png</imagepath>
<imageurl>http://www.recipeurl/original_image</imageurl>
<comments>Your comments</comments>
<source>Source</source>
<video>Video URL</video>
<nutrition>
<li>Nutritional information</li>
<li></li>
</nutrition>
<rating>5</rating>
<category>category 1</category>
<category>category 2</category>
</recipe>
<recipe>
<title>Crepes</title>
<preptime>10 min</preptime>
<cooktime>20 min</cooktime>
<totaltime>30 min</totaltime>
<ingredient>
<li>1 1/2 c. flour</li>
<li>2 c. milk</li>
<li>2 eggs</li>
<li>1 1/2 tbsp. oil</li>
<li>1 tbsp. sugar</li>
<li>Little salt melted</li>
</ingredient>
<recipetext>
<li>Pour the milk into the flour. Stir.</li>
<li>Add the oil, the beaten eggs and the sugar. Stir again.</li>
<li>Let the batter rest for 2 hours. The batter must be fluid. If not, add a little more milk. </li>
<li></li>
<li>Take a frying pan, oil it and pour a small amount of batter and spread it on the bottom. Cook it on one side, then the other.</li>
<li>The "French Crepes" must be very thin. </li>
<li>You can put butter or sugar or jelly or melted chocolate on them.</li>
</recipetext>
<url></url>
<quantity></quantity>
<imagepath>/mnt/sdcard/MyCookBook/images/crepes.png</imagepath>
<imageurl></imageurl>
<comments></comments>
<source>Grandma</source>
<video>http://www.youtube.com/embed/FGME3FVga-g?feature=oembed</video>
<nutrition></nutrition>
<rating>4</rating>
<category>Dessert</category>
</recipe>
</cookbook>

Description of our XML schema

Our XSD file is available here : mycookbook.xsd

• cookbook: Root of all recipes
• recipe : Defines your recipe. You can have one or more recipes in your XML file
• title : Title of your recipe
• preptime : Preparation time
• cooktime : Cook Time
• totaltime : Total Time
• description : Description of the recipe. If you want to have line breaks, use the <li> … </li> tags
• ingredient : Ingredients of the recipe. If you have several ingredients and you want to have line breaks, use the <li> … </li> tags
• recipetext : Directions. If you want to have line breaks, use the <li> … </li> tags
• url : Source URL of the recipe
• video : Video URL of the recipe
• quantity : Yield
• imagepath : Path on your phone of the picture of the recipe
• imageurl : Url of the original picture of the recipe
• comments : Any comments you want to add
• nutrition : Nutritional information
• rating : Rating (Integer 1-5)
• source : Source or Author
• video : URL of a video
• category : Recipe category. There may be several categories