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Change to namespace in SDN.XML, CONSOLIDATED.XML, SDN_ADVANCED.XML, and CONS_ADVANCED.XML files

Release Date
05/07/2024
Recent Actions Body

As part of its rollout for its new Sanctions List Service (SLS), OFAC made a correction to the namespace information in the SDN.XML and CONSOLIDATED.XML files. 

The existing namespace was changed from this:

<sdnList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://tempuri.org/sdnList.xsd">

to this:

<sdnList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/PublicationPreview/export
s/XML">

The XSD for these files has been updated and is available at this URL:

https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/PublicationPreview/exports/XML.xsd


In addition, OFAC altered the namespace and schema location in the

SDN_ADVANCED.XML and CONS_ADVANCED.XML files.  

The existing namespace and schema location was changed from this:

<Sanctions xmlns="http://www.un.org/sanctions/1.0" Version="3"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.un.org/sanctions/1.0
http://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sanctions/1.0/sdn_advanced.xsd">

to this:

<Sanctions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" Version="3"
xsi:schemaLocation="https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/PublicationP
review/exports/ADVANCED_XML
https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/PublicationPreview/exports/ADVAN
CED_XML.xsd"
xmlns="https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/PublicationPreview/exports/
ADVANCED_XML">

The XSD for these files has been updated and is available at this URL:

https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/PublicationPreview/exports/
ADVANCED_XML.xsd