Package org.apache.xerces.xs.datatypes

This package provides interfaces for accessing actual value information through PSVI for XML Schema 1.0 data types.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
ByteList	The ByteList is an immutable ordered collection of byte.
ObjectList	The ObjectList is an immutable ordered collection of Object.
XSDateTime	Interface to expose the values for all date-time related types.
XSDecimal	Interface to expose the value of 'decimal' and related datatypes.
XSDouble	Interface to expose the value of the 'double' datatype.
XSFloat	Interface to expose value of the float datatype.
XSQName	Interface to expose QName actual values

Package org.apache.xerces.xs.datatypes Description

This package provides interfaces for accessing actual value information through PSVI for XML Schema 1.0 data types.

The table below gives the data type to applicable interface mapping:

XML Schema Data Type	Interface/Class
string	java.lang.String
boolean	java.lang.Boolean
decimal	XSDecimal
float	XSFloat
double	XSDouble
duration	XSDateTime
dateTime	XSDateTime
date	XSDateTime
time	XSDateTime
gYear	XSDateTime
gMonth	XSDateTime
gDay	XSDateTime
gYearMonth	XSDateTime
gMonthDay	XSDateTime
hexBinary	ByteList
base64Binary	ByteList
anyURI	java.lang.String
QName	XSQName
NOTATION	XSQName
normalizedString	java.lang.String
token	java.lang.String
language	java.lang.String
NMTOKEN	java.lang.String
NMTOKENS	ObjectList
Name	java.lang.String
NCName	java.lang.String
ID	java.lang.String
IDREF	java.lang.String
IDREFS	ObjectList
ENTITY	java.lang.String
ENTITIES	ObjectList
list	ObjectList
integer	XSDecimal
positiveInteger	XSDecimal
negativeInteger	XSDecimal
nonPositiveInteger	XSDecimal
nonNegativeInteger	XSDecimal
unsignedShort	XSDecimal
unsignedLong	XSDecimal
unsignedByte	XSDecimal
unsignedInt	XSDecimal
long	XSDecimal
int	XSDecimal
short	XSDecimal
byte	XSDecimal

As shown above, the XSDateTime interface provides mapping to a number of decimal/integer data types. The application needs to ensure that appropriate methods for each of these types is invoked. The mapping of these types to defined methods is shown in the table below. Accessing methods that are undefined for a type will give unexpected results.

XML Schema Data Type	Applicable method in XSDateTime*
integer	getBigInteger()
positiveInteger	getBigInteger()
negativeInteger	getBigInteger()
nonPositiveInteger	getBigInteger()
nonNegativeInteger	getBigInteger()
unsignedShort	getInt()
unsignedLong	getBigInteger()
unsignedByte	getShort()
unsignedInt	getLong()
long	getLong()
int	getInt()
short	getShort()
byte	getByte()

* This shows the base method that can be called. That is, users can call this method and all methods returning bigger types than the base method according to the order: byte < short < int < long < BigInteger < BigDecimal. For example, in the case of unsignedShort, users can call getInt(), getLong(), getBigInteger() and getBigDecimal() but NOT getShort() or getByte().