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xsd:NMTOKEN

The type xsd:NMTOKEN represents a single string token. xsd:NMTOKEN values may consist of letters, digits, periods (.), hyphens (-), underscores (_), and colons (:). They may start with any of these characters. xsd:NMTOKEN has a whiteSpace facet value of collapse, so any leading or trailing whitespace will be removed. However, no whitespace may appear within the value itself.

Simple Type Information

Namespace: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema

Schema Document: builtintypes.xsd

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Examples

Valid valuesComment
ABCD
123_456
  starts_with_a_spacewhen parsed, leading spaces will be removed
Invalid valuesComment
contains a spacevalue must not contain a space
an empty value is not valid, unless xsi:nil is used

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