XML Schema

Name

xs:string — Any string.

Derived from:

xs:anySimpleType

Primary:

xs:string

Known subtypes:

xs:normalizedString

Facets:

xs:enumeration, xs:length, xs:maxLength, xs:minLength, xs:pattern, xs:whiteSpace

<xs:simpleType name="string" id="string">
  <xs:restriction base="xs:anySimpleType">
    <xs:whiteSpace value="preserve"/>
  </xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>

Description

The lexical and value spaces of xs:string are the set of all possible strings composed of any character allowed in a XML 1.0 document without any treatment done on whitespaces.

Restrictions

This is the only datatype that leaves all the whitespaces. When whitespaces are not significant, xs:token is preferred.

Example

The value of the following element:

<title lang="en">
  Being a Dog Is 
  a Full-Time Job
</title>

is the full string "Being a Dog Is a Full-Time Job", with all its tabulations and CR/LF if the title element is a xs:string type .