PnP provisioning schema
As you learned in PnP provisioning framework and elsewhere, the format for provisioning templates has been decoupled from the persistence format so that you can use any format you prefer. Nevertheless, because using the XML provisioning schema for persisting templates is such a common scenario, we're providing some additional information about how to use the XML schema to serialize and save your provisioning templates.
Note
The PnP Provisioning Framework & PnP Provisioning Engine are open-source solutions with active community providing support for it. There is no SLA for the open-source tool support from Microsoft.
Important
While the provisioning schema obviously supports XML serialization of provisioning templates, it also provides the structure for serialization in JSON format. More generally, the schema provides the model for defining provisioning structures.
Provisioning schema resources
You can get the provisioning schema, along with its supporting files, on GitHub at PnP-Provisioning-Schema.
View the 20-minute Channel 9 video that discusses the provisioning schema: Deep dive to PnP provisioning engine schema.
Sample schemas are available at GitHub at PnP-Provisioning-Schema/Samples.
The following code block displays the schema's root element and direct child elements of the root.
<pnp:ProvisioningTemplate
xmlns:pnp="http://schemas.dev.office.com/PnP/2015/08/ProvisioningSchema"
ID="xsd:ID"
Version="xsd:decimal"
ImagePreviewUrl="xsd:string"
DisplayName="xsd:string"
Description="xsd:string">
<pnp:Properties />
<pnp:SitePolicy />
<pnp:RegionalSettings />
<pnp:SupportedUILanguages />
<pnp:AuditSettings />
<pnp:PropertyBagEntries />
<pnp:Security />
<pnp:SiteFields />
<pnp:ContentTypes />
<pnp:Lists />
<pnp:Features />
<pnp:CustomActions />
<pnp:Files />
<pnp:Pages />
<pnp:TermGroups />
<pnp:ComposedLook />
<pnp:Workflows />
<pnp:SearchSettings />
<pnp:Publishing />
<pnp:AddIns />
<pnp:Providers />
</pnp:ProvisioningTemplate>