XDR Schema Data Types Reference

In addition to the string and other primitive types defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML 1.0 Recommendation, Microsoft® XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office supports a rich set of data types. It also supports conversions between the primitive types and these rich data types.

Data types are referenced from the data type namespace "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes". To use data types within an XML schema, declare the data type namespace within the schema document. This documentation assumes that the data type namespace has been assigned the dt prefix, as shown in the following example.

<Schema name="myschema"
        xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data"
        xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes">
  <!-- ... -->
</Schema>

See Also

XDR Schema Data Types | Primitive XDR Schema Data Types | Supported Data Type Conversions | XDR Schema Developer's Guide | XDR Schema Reference