Name
Markup datatypes
Synopsis
| xs:NOTATION, xs:token, xs:Name, xs:NCName, xs:NMTOKEN, xs:ID, xs:IDREF, xs:ENTITY, xs:ENTITIES, xs:QName |
| Defined in: XML Schema part 2 |
From the perspective of someone filling out a form, details of XML
internals such as NMTOKENs or IDREFs shouldn’t
matter. Even xs:token (which should have been
named xs:tokenized) allows whitespace within the
value and doesn’t map to anything typical users
would enter in a form. Unless you are creating a form that deals
directly with XML data structures, choose different datatypes.
Further, xs:NOTATION,
xs:ENTITY, and xs:ENTITIES are
not guaranteed to be supported at all in XForms, and thus should be
studiously avoided.
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