XForms Data Types Reference

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String Data Types

Name	Description
ID	A string that represents the ID attribute
IDREF	A string that represents the IDREF attribute
IDREFS
language	A string that contains a valid language id (e.g. en, en-US)
Name	A string that contains a valid XML name
NCName
NMTOKEN	A string that represents the NMTOKEN attribute
NMTOKENS
normalizedString	A string that does not contain new line characters or tabs
QName
string	A string. This is the default data type XForms will use if no data type is specified. Note: string may contain tab characters and new line characters
token	A string that does not contain line feeds, carriage returns, tabs, leading or trailing spaces, or multiple spaces

All string data types are derived from the string data type itself.

Date and Time Data Types

Name	Description
date	Defines a date value
dateTime	Defines a date and time value
gDay	Defines a part of a date - the day (DD)
gMonth	Defines a part of a date - the month (MM)
gMonthDay	Defines a part of a date - the month and day (MM-DD)
gYear	Defines a part of a date - the year (CCYY)
gYearMonth	Defines a part of a date - the year and month (CCYY-MM)
time	Defines a time value

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Numeric Data Types

Name	Description
byte	A signed 8-bit integer
decimal	A decimal value
int	A signed 32-bit integer
integer	An integer value
long	A signed 64-bit integer
negativeInteger	An integer containing only negative values (..,-2,-1)
nonNegativeInteger	An integer containing only non-negative values (0,1,2,..)
nonPositiveInteger	An integer containing only non-positive values (..,-2,-1,0)
positiveInteger	An integer containing only positive values (1,2, ..)
short	A signed 16-bit integer
unsignedLong	An unsigned 64-bit integer
unsignedInt	An unsigned 32-bit integer
unsignedShort	An unsigned 16-bit integer
unsignedByte	An unsigned 8-bit integer

All numeric data types are derived from the decimal data type.

Miscellaneous Data Types

Name	Description
anyURI	Represents a URI, which includes web page addresses
base64Binary	Allows characters, including control characters, that otherwise aren't representable in XML
boolean	Defines a true/false or 1/0 value
double
float
hexBinary

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XForms Data Types

Name	Description
listItems	Represents a whitespace-separated list
listItem	Represents only non-whitespace characters. An excellent base type for a whitespace-separated list
dayTimeDuration	Represents a duration of a certain number of seconds
yearMonthDuration	Represents a duration of a certain number of months

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