XmlArrayItemAttribute.DataType Property
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Gets or sets the XML data type of the generated XML element.
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.StringAn XML Schema definition (XSD) data type, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org) document, XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes.
The following table lists the XML Schema simple data types with their .NET equivalents.
XSD data type | .NET data type |
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anyURI | |
base64Binary | Array of Byte objects |
boolean | |
byte | |
date | |
dateTime | |
decimal | |
double | |
ENTITY | |
ENTITIES | |
float | |
gDay | |
gMonth | |
gMonthDay | |
gYear | |
gYearMonth | |
hexBinary | Array of Byte objects |
ID | |
IDREF | |
IDREFS | |
int | |
integer | |
language | |
long | |
Name | |
NCName | |
negativeInteger | |
NMTOKEN | |
NMTOKENS | |
normalizedString | |
nonNegativeInteger | |
nonPositiveInteger | |
NOTATION | |
positiveInteger | |
QName | |
duration | |
string | |
short | |
time | |
token | |
unsignedByte | |
unsignedInt | |
unsignedLong | |
unsignedShort |
For the XML Schema base64Binary and hexBinary data types, use an array of Byte objects, and apply an XmlArrayItemAttribute with the DataType property set to "base64Binary" or "hexBinary", as appropriate. For the XML Schema time and date data types, use the DateTime type and apply the XmlArrayItemAttribute with the DataType set to "date" or "time".
For every XML Schema type that is mapped to a string, apply the XmlArrayItemAttribute with its DataType property set to the XML Schema type. However, this does not change the serialization format, only the schema for the member.
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The property is case-sensitive, so you must set it exactly to one of the XML Schema data types. |
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Passing binary data as an XML element is more efficient then passing it as an XML attribute. |
For more information about
XML Schema data types, see the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org) document, XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes.
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