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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Food and Agriculture Organization of the
+  ~ United Nations (FAO-UN), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
+  ~ and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
+  ~
+  ~ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+  ~ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+  ~ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
+  ~ your option) any later version.
+  ~
+  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+  ~ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  ~ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+  ~ General Public License for more details.
+  ~
+  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  ~ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+  ~ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
+  ~
+  ~ Contact: Jeroen Ticheler - FAO - Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 2,
+  ~ Rome - Italy. email: geonetwork@osgeo.org
+  -->
+
+<geonet>
+  <services package="org.fao.geonet">
+    <documentation>XML API service are Jeeves services returning XML response.
+      At some point they may be deprecated and replaced by services used
+      by AngularUI returning XML or JSON response.
+    </documentation>
+
+    <service name="xml.config.info" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.config.GetInfo"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.schema.info" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.schema.Info"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.password.change" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.password.Change"/>
+      <error sheet="error-xml.xsl"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.admin.form">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.GetAdminOper"/>
+    </service>
+
+
+    <service name="xml.region.get" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.region.Get"/>
+
+      <error id="region-not-found" sheet="error-embedded.xsl" statusCode="404">
+        <xml name="error" file="xml/file-not-found-error.xml"/>
+      </error>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.regions.category.list" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.region.ListCategories"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.file.disclaimer" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.feedback.AddLimitations"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.file.download" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.feedback.Insert"/>
+      <output forward="resources.get.archive"/>
+    </service>
+
+
+    <service name="xml.search" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.main.XmlSearch"/>
+
+      <output sheet="portal-present.xsl" contentType="application/xml; charset=UTF-8"/>
+
+      <error id="search-error" sheet="error-xml.xsl" statusCode="500"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.get" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.Show">
+        <param name="skipPopularity" value="y"/>
+        <param name="skipInfo" value="{{ geonetwork_config_skipinfo }}"/>
+      </class>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.info" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.main.Info"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.usergroups.list" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.user.UserGroups"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
+
+    <service name="xml.group.list" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.group.List"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.insert" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.Insert"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.delete" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.Delete"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <!--<service name="xml.relation" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">-->
+    <!--<class name=".guiservices.metadata.GetRelated" />-->
+    <!--<output sheet="metadata/relation.xsl" contentType="text/xml; charset=UTF-8" />-->
+    <!--</service>-->
+
+    <service name="xml.relation.get" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.relations.Get"/>
+
+      <output sheet="portal-present.xsl" contentType="text/xml; charset=UTF-8">
+        <call name="sources" class=".guiservices.util.Sources"/>
+      </output>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.relation.insert" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.relations.Insert"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.relation.delete" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.relations.Remove"/>
+    </service>
+
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.insert.paste" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.Insert"/>
+      <error sheet="error-xml.xsl"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.validate" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.Validate"/>
+      <output sheet="metadata/validate.xsl" contentType="text/xml; charset=UTF-8">
+        <xml name="validation" file="xml/metadata-validate.xml"/>
+      </output>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.batch.admin.form" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.PrepareBatchUpdatePrivileges"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.batch.update.privileges" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.BatchUpdatePrivileges"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.status.set" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.UpdateStatus"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.status.get" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.status.Get"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.metadata.rate" xmlapi="true" deprecated="true">
+      <class name=".services.metadata.Rate"/>
+    </service>
+
+
+    <service name="xml.user.metadata" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".guiservices.metadata.GetByOwner"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.search.keywordlink" type="xml" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <class name=".services.thesaurus.GetNarrowerBroader"/>
+      <output sheet="thesaurus/thesaurus-autosearchlist.xsl"/>
+    </service>
+
+    <service name="xml.keyword.get" type="xml" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <documentation>
+        transformation: Name of the template to use to return the keyword (eg.
+        to-iso19139-with-anchor).
+        keywordOnly: Skip thesaurus citation section if defined (default no).
+
+      </documentation>
+      <class name=".services.thesaurus.GetKeywordById"/>
+      <output sheet="thesaurus/convert.xsl">
+        <call name="thesaurus" class=".services.thesaurus.GetList"/>
+      </output>
+    </service>
+    <service name="xml.thesaurus.getList" type="xml" deprecated="true" xmlapi="true">
+      <documentation xml:lang="en">
+        Get list of available thesaurus
+      </documentation>
+      <class name=".services.thesaurus.GetList"/>
+    </service>
+
+  </services>
+</geonet>