Name

xs:union

Attributes

memberTypes

A whitespace-separated list of the base types that may appear in the type

Contents

xs:annotation?,  xs:simpleType*

xs:union permits the creation of simple types that may take more than one kind of data—both an xs:boolean and an xs:byte, for example. The list of those types may appear in the memberTypes attribute and/or in child xs:simpleType elements. If both are used, the list of types will include both sets of possibilities.

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