String data types are used for values that contains character strings.
The string data type can contain characters, line feeds, carriage returns, and tab characters.
The following is an example of a string declaration in a schema:
An element in your document might look like this:
Or it might look like this:
Note: The XML processor will not modify the value if you use the string data type.
The normalizedString data type is derived from the String data type.
The normalizedString data type also contains characters, but the XML processor will remove line feeds, carriage returns, and tab characters.
The following is an example of a normalizedString declaration in a schema:
An element in your document might look like this:
Or it might look like this:
Note: In the example above the XML processor will replace the tabs with spaces.
The token data type is also derived from the String data type.
The token data type also contains characters, but the XML processor will remove line feeds, carriage returns, tabs, leading and trailing spaces, and multiple spaces.
The following is an example of a token declaration in a schema:
An element in your document might look like this:
Or it might look like this:
Note: In the example above the XML processor will remove the tabs.
Note that all of the data types below derive from the String data type (except for string itself)!
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ENTITIES | |
| ENTITY | |
| ID | A string that represents the ID attribute in XML (only used with schema attributes) |
| IDREF | A string that represents the IDREF attribute in XML (only used with schema attributes) |
| IDREFS | |
| language | A string that contains a valid language id |
| Name | A string that contains a valid XML name |
| NCName | |
| NMTOKEN | A string that represents the NMTOKEN attribute in XML (only used with schema attributes) |
| NMTOKENS | |
| normalizedString | A string that does not contain line feeds, carriage returns, or tabs |
| QName | |
| string | A string |
| token | A string that does not contain line feeds, carriage returns, tabs, leading or trailing spaces, or multiple spaces |
Restrictions that can be used with String data types:
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