This value depends on the Type property of the element. See the following table for details.
Type | DataType |
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Attribute | Contains the string representation of the data type specifier included in the schema, or NULL if no data type was specified. |
Cdatasection, Comment, Document, Documenttype, Documentfragment, Entity, Notation, Processinginstruction, Text | Contains the constant string value "string". These node types do not have data types, so the dataType property cannot be set for these node types. Attempts to set the data type property are ignored |
Element | Contains the string representation of the data type specifier included on the instance of the element or in the schema, or NULL if no data type was specified. |
Entityreference | Contains the string representation of the data type specifier for the referenced entity. This is limited to entities with a single data type on the root level element of the subtree corresponding to the entity. Contains NULL if no data type was specified. It is not possible to set the data type of an entity reference. The data type must be set directly on the referenced element. Attempts to set the value of the dataType property are ignored. |