December 2003
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
9h 46m
English
Built-in datatypes
Primitive datatypes
Derived datatypes
User-derived datatypes
Perhaps the most widely used product of the W3C XML Schema project is the datatype work. It was made a separate Part 2 of the XML Schema spec, with the intention “that it be usable outside of the context of XML Schema for a wide range of other XML-related activities”.
In this chapter, we describe the basic concepts of XML datatypes, with an emphasis on those that are built into the specification.
The XML Schema Datatypes spec defines two categories of datatype: primitive and derived. All primitive datatypes are defined in the spec and are therefore among the built-in datatypes. You may not create your own primitive ...