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XML Schema Complete Reference, The
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XML Schema Complete Reference, The

by Cliff Binstock, Chris Galtenberg, Mike Wooding, Chris Dix, Mitchell Smith, Dave Peterson
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
22h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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12.4. Oddball Datatypes

Several datatypes do not fit well into the foregoing partitioning:

  • QName’s lexical space is related to that of Name, but QName values are not strings. QName is a “magic” datatype, in the sense of Section 12.3.3.

  • boolean is the only mathematical datatype that is not numerical.

  • hexBinary and base64Binary are both popular methods of encoding multiple-octet bit strings into printable ASCII character strings.

  • anyURI is very much like a string-derived datatype, but uses a different mapping from its lexical space to its value space.

  • notation is even more of an oddball: each application gets to define what a notation is. As far as XML is concerned, a notation is simply “something” that is identified by a system or public identifier. ...

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