| Type | W3C spec | Description |
|---|---|---|
xsd:string | W3C | Character strings (but not all Unicode character strings) |
xsd:boolean | W3C | true, false |
xsd:decimal | W3C | Equivalent to xsd:double |
xsd:integer | W3C | Arbitrary-size integer numbers |
IEEE floating-point numbers
| Type | W3C spec | Description |
|---|---|---|
xsd:double | W3C | 64-bit floating point numbers incl. ∓Inf, ∓0, NaN |
xsd:float | W3C | 32-bit floating point numbers incl. ∓Inf, ∓0, NaN |
Time and date
| Type | W3C spec | Description |
|---|---|---|
xsd:date | W3C | Dates (yyyy-mm-dd) with or without timezone |
xsd:time | W3C | Times (hh:mm:ss.sss) with or without timezone |
xsd:dateTime | W3C | Date and time with or without timezone |
xsd:dateTimeStamp | W3C | Date and time with required timezone |
Recurring and partial dates
| Type | W3C spec | Description |
|---|---|---|
xsd:gYear | W3C | Gregorian calendar year |
xsd:gMonth | W3C | Gregorian calendar month |
xsd:gDay | W3C | Gregorian calendar day of the month |
xsd:gYearMonth | W3C | Gregorian calendar year and month |
xsd:gMonthDay | W3C | Gregorian calendar month and day |
xsd:duration | W3C | Duration of time |
xsd:yearMonthDuration | W3C | Duration of time (months and years only) |
xsd:dayTimeDuration | W3C | Duration of time (days, hours, minutes, seconds only) |
Limited-range integer numbers
| Type | W3C spec | Description |
|---|---|---|
xsd:byte | W3C | -128…+127 (8 bit) |
xsd:short | W3C | -32768…+32767 (16 bit) |
xsd:int | W3C | -2147483648…+2147483647 (32 bit) |
xsd:long | W3C | -9223372036854775808…+9223372036854775807 (64 bit) |
xsd:unsignedByte | W3C | 0…255 (8 bit) |
xsd:unsignedShort | W3C | 0…65535 (16 bit) |
xsd:unsignedInt | W3C | 0…4294967295 (32 bit) |
xsd:unsignedLong | W3C | 0…18446744073709551615 (64 bit) |
xsd:positiveInteger | W3C | Integer numbers >0 |
xsd:nonNegativeInteger | W3C | Integer numbers ≥0 |
xsd:negativeInteger | W3C | Integer numbers <0 |
xsd:nonPositiveInteger | W3C | Integer numbers ≤0 |
Encoded binary data
| Type | W3C spec | Description |
|---|---|---|
xsd:hexBinary | W3C | Hex-encoded binary data |
xsd:base64Binary | W3C | Base64-encoded binary data |
Miscellaneous XSD types
| Type | W3C spec | Description |
|---|---|---|
xsd:anyURI | W3C | Absolute or relative URIs and IRIs |
xsd:language | W3C | Language tags per BCP47 |
xsd:normalizedString | W3C | Whitespace-normalized strings |
xsd:token | W3C | Tokenized strings |
xsd:NMTOKEN | W3C | XML NMTOKENs |
xsd:Name | W3C | XML Names |
xsd:NCName | W3C | XML NCNames |