7.5. XMLSchema-defined data types¶

Simple data types defined in the XML Schema namespace.

xs:anyURI

an Internationalized Resource Identifier reference (IRI)

xs:base64Binary

binary data represented in Base64 encoding, see RFC 4648#section-4

xs:boolean

True/False or 1/0

xs:date

a date

xs:dateTime

a date and time

xs:decimal

a real number represented by decimal numerals (low precision)

xs:language

a xs:token matching the [a-zA-Z]{1,8}(-[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,8})* pattern

xs:normalizedString

a xs:string which does not contain carriage return, line feed nor tab characters

xs:string

a generic non-restricted character string

xs:token

a xs:normalizedString which has no leading nor trailing spaces and no internal sequence of 2 or more spaces

xs:unsignedByte

a small non-negative integer (up to 255 incl.)

xs:unsignedLong

a potentially big non-negative integer

xs:unsignedShort

an average non-negative integer