Name

TypeInfo(3)

Synopsis

Starting with the DOM Level 3, Element and Attr nodes include a schemaTypeInfo attribute that may reference a TypeInfo object. For valid XML documents, this object is used to provide information about the declared data type for a given element or attribute. Since the DOM is intended to be parser-independent, the contents of this object will vary depending on the type of schema validation that was performed (XML DTD, XML Schema, RELAX NG, and so forth). The DOM Level 3 Core specification includes detailed information about the significance of the typeName and typeNamespace attributes for both DTDs and XML Schemas.

Attributes

The TypeInfo object contains the following attributes:

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