xs: element type for char?

[Saathvik Reddy]

Hi,

I am trying to write a xsd(schema definition). I have a element which should be of char type. What would be the xs:element type?

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

Should i use the string to map to char or does xsd have anything special for char

Thanks,
Srikanth.

[Marco Ehrentreich]

Hi Srikanth,

here's a list of the built-in XML schema types.

There's no special type for single characters so you will have to map it to a string and deal with it in Java or you could create an user defined simple type which restricts the string type for example by using a regular expression for a single character.

Marco

[Saathvik Reddy]

Marco,

Thanks for the clarification.