Creating shipping assets using an XML file Create your shipping assets in the format of XML files that can be loaded into the database using the loading utilities. If you are creating a globalized store, you may want to create separate XML files for each locale your store supports. The locale-specific file should specify all description information, so it can be easily translated. About this task The starter stores, from which many of the examples in these tasks are taken, use one shipping.xml file for all information that does not need to be translated, and another shipping.xml file for each locale the store supports, for the information that needs to be translated. The locale-specific files contain all the description information, so it can be easily translated. To create shipping assets for your store using an XML file: Procedure Create an XML file that follows the wcs.dtd file. The DTD file is located in the following directory: WC_installdir /schema/xml