Overriding Element Types in XML Documents

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∟Overriding Element Types in XML Documents

This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on overriding element Type. Topics include declaring element nillable, overriding element with 'xsi:nil', defining base and derived datatypes, overriding element type with 'xsi:type'.

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Overriding Element Type to Empty Content - nillable

Overriding Element Type to Empty Content - xsi:nil

Defining a Derived Datatype from a Base Datatype

Overriding the Base Datatype - xsi:type

Overriding the Base Datatype - Errors

Takeaways:

Declaring an element type as "nillable" allows you to construct a "xsi:nil" XML element.
Extending an element type into sub-types allows you to switch XML elements to sub-types.