How to use string data type in XQuery

In this article we will discuss about how to use string data type in XQuery in XML.
  • 1934

The string data type are used to represents character string in xml.It is derived from data type xdt:anyAtomicType. Basically  string data type are three type-

  • String data type

                String data type contain character and tab character.

String has the following constraining facets-

  • length
  • minLength
  • maxLength
  • pattern
  • enumeration
  • whiteSpace

Example of string data type

<xs:element name="Productes" type="xs:string"/>

<Productes>Product1</Productes>

<Productes>Product2</Productes>

  • NormalizedString data type

                   NormalizedString data type is a subset of string data type. It represents white space normalized strings. It is built-in data type derived from string data type. It remove tab character.

normalizedString has the following constraining facets-

  • length
  • minLength
  • maxLength
  • pattern
  • enumeration
  • whiteSpace

Example of  NormalizedString data type

<xs:element name="Productes" type="xs:normalizedString"/>

<Productes>Product 1</Productes>

<Productes>Product 2</Productes>

  • Token data type

                 Token data type also a subset of string data type and its also derived from NormalizedString data type . The xs:token data type represents a tokenized string. Derived from the xs:normalizedString data type.

Token has the following constraining facets-

  • length
  • minLength
  • maxLength
  • pattern
  • enumeration
  • whiteSpace

Example of Token data type

<xs:element name="Productes" type="xs:token"/>

<Productes>Product 1</Productes>

<Productes>Product 2</Productes>

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