Content Types
The following table identifies the content types you can apply to String or String list variables. Each of these content types corresponds to a built-in simple type defined in the specification XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes.
| Content Types | Description |
|---|---|
| anyURI | A Uniform Resource Identifier Reference. The value of anyURI may be absolute or relative. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern Note: The anyURI type indicates that the variable value plays the role of a URI and is defined like a URI. URI references are not validated because it is impractical for applications to check the validity of a URI reference. |
| base64Binary | Base64-encoded binary data. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern |
| boolean | True or false. Constraining Facets pattern Example true, 1, false, 0 |
| byte | A whole number whose value is greater than or equal to –128 but less than or equal to 127. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example -128, -26, 0, 15, 125 |
| date | A calendar date from the Gregorian calendar. Values need to match the following pattern: CCYY-MM-DD Where CC represents the century, YY the year, MM the month, DD the day. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and coordinated universal time. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example 1997-08-09 (August 9, 1997) |
| dateTime | A specific instant of time (a date and time of day). Values need to match the following pattern: CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sss Where CC represents the century, YY the year, MM the month, DD the day, T the date/time separator, hh the hour, mm the minutes, and ss the seconds. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and Coordinated Universal Time. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example 2000-06-29T17:30:00-05:00 represents 5:30 pm Eastern Standard time on June 29, 2000. (Eastern Standard Time is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time.) |
| decimal | A number with an optional decimal point. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example 8.01, 290, -47.24 |
| double | Double-precision 64-bit floating point type. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example 6.02E23, 3.14, -26, 1.25e-2 |
| duration | A length of time. Values need to match the following pattern: PnYnMnDTnHnMnS Where nY represents the number of years, nM represents the number of months, nD is the number of days, T separates the date and time, nH the number of hours, nM the number of minutes and nS the number of seconds. Precede the duration with a minus (-) sign to indicate a negative duration. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example P2Y10M20DT5H50M represents a duration of 2 years, 10 months, 20 days, 5 hours, and 50 minutes |
| ENTITIES | Sequence of whitespace-separated ENTITY values declared in the DTD. Represents the ENTITIES attribute type from the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength |
| ENTITY | Name associated with an unparsed entity of the DTD. Represents the ENTITY attribute type from the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| float | A number with a fractional part. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example 8.01, 25, 6.02E23, -5.5 |
| gDay | A specific day that recurs every month. Values must match the following pattern: ---DD Where DD represents the day. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and Coordinated Universal Time. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example ---24 indicates the 24th day of each month |
| gMonth | A Gregorian month that occurs every year. Values must match the following pattern: --MM Where MM represents the month. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and Coordinated Universal Time. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example --11 represents November |
| gMonthDay | A specific day and month that recurs every year in the Gregorian calendar. Values must match the following pattern: --MM-DD Where MM represents the month and DD represents the day. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and Coordinated Universal Time. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example --09-24 represents September 24th |
| gYear | A specific year in the Gregorian calendar. Values must match the following pattern: CCYY Where CC represents the century, and YY the year. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and Coordinated Universal Time. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example 2001 indicates the year 2001. |
| gYearMonth | A specific month and year in the Gregorian calendar. Values must match the following pattern: CCYY-MM Where CC represents the century, YY the year, and MM the month. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and Coordinated Universal Time Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example 2001-04 indicates April 2001. |
| hexBinary | Hex-encoded binary data. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern |
| ID | A name that uniquely identifies an individual element in an instance document. The value for ID needs to be a valid XML name. The ID datatype represents the ID attribute type from the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| IDREF | A reference to an element with a unique ID. The value of IDREF is the same as the ID value. The IDREF datatype represents the IDREF attribute type from the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| IDREFS | Sequence of white space separated IDREFs used in an XML document. The IDREFS datatype represents the IDREFS attribute type from the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength |
| int | A whole number with a value greater than or equal to -2147483647 but less than or equal to 2147483647. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example -21474836, -55500, 0, 33123, 4271974 |
| integer | A positive or negative whole number. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example -2500, -5, 0, 15, 365 |
| language | Language identifiers used to indicate the language in which the content is written. Natural language identifiers are defined in IETF RFC 1766. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| long | A whole number with a value greater than or equal to -9223372036854775808 but less than or equal to 9223372036854775807. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example -55600, -23, 0, 256, 3211569432 |
| Name | XML names that match the Name production of XML 1.0 (Second Edition). Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| NCName | Non-colonized XML names. Set of all strings that match the NCName production of Namespaces in XML. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| negativeInteger | An integer with a value less than or equal to –1. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example -255556, -354, -3, -1 |
| NMTOKEN | Any mixture of name characters. Represents the NMTOKEN attribute type from the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| NMTOKENS | Sequences of NMTOKENS. Represents the NMTOKENS attribute type from the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength |
| nonNegativeInteger | An integer with a value greater than or equal to 0. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example <br> 0, 15, 32123 |
| nonPositiveInteger | An integer with a value less than or equal to 0. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits, whiteSpace Example -256453, -357, -1, 0 |
| normalizedString | Represents white space normalized strings. Set of strings (sequence of UCS characters) that do not contain the carriage return (#xD), line feed (#xA), or tab (#x9) characters. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace Example MAB-0907 |
| positiveInteger | An integer with a value greater than or equal to 1. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example 1, 1500, 23000 |
| short | A whole number with a value greater than or equal to -32768 but less than or equal to 32767. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example -32000, -543, 0, 456, 3265 |
| string | Character strings in XML. A sequence of UCS characters (ISO 10646 and Unicode). By default, all white space is preserved for variables with a string content constraint. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace Example MAB-0907 |
| time | An instant of time that occurs every day. Values must match the following pattern: hh:mm:ss.sss Where hh indicates the hour, mm the minutes, and ss the seconds. The pattern can include a Z at the end to indicate Coordinated Universal Time or to indicate the difference between the time zone and Coordinated Universal Time. Constraining Facets enumeration, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern Example 18:10:00-05:00 (6:10 pm, Eastern Standard Time) Eastern Standard Time is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. |
| token | Represents tokenized strings. Set of strings that do not contain the carriage return (#xD), line feed (#xA), or tab (#x9) characters, leading or trailing spaces (#x20), or sequences of two or more spaces. Constraining Facets enumeration, length, maxLength, minLength, pattern, whiteSpace |
| unsignedByte | A whole number greater than or equal to 0, but less than or equal to 255. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example 0, 112, 200 |
| unsignedInt | A whole number greater than or equal to 0, but less than or equal to 4294967295. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example 0, 22335, 123223333 |
| unsignedLong | A whole number greater than or equal to 0, but less than or equal to 18446744073709551615. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example 0, 2001, 3363124 |
| unsignedShort | A whole number greater then or equal to 0, but less than or equal to 65535. Constraining Facets enumeration, fractionDigits, maxExclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, minInclusive, pattern, totalDigits Example 0, 1000, 65000 |