As far as I have been able to tell, the terms "type" and "datatype" are
synonymous in XML Schema, though by custom and practice the term "datatype"
is generally used only when referring to simple types.

In the XSLT and XQuery groups we decided to stick to "type".

Michael Kay 

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> From: xmlschema-dev-request@w... 
> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w...] On Behalf Of David Landwehr
> Sent: 09 May 2006 06:45
> To: xmlschema-dev@w...
> Subject: Question about datatype
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> On www-forms@w... there is a discussion going on about the 
> notion of a xml schema datatype [1]. Does the term datatype 
> in XML Schema only cover a simple type or also a complex type 
> with simple content? From the XML Schema Part 2 I read the 
> definition of a datatype to be the validation criteria of 
> textual content (and to some degree structural because of 
> e.g. xsd:QName and xsd:ID), is that correct or how would 
> *the* good explanation of this look like?
> 
> Best regards,
> David
> 
> [1] 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2006May/0015.htm
l , this is the start of the mail thread but the question I'm > asking here
arises at the and of the thread.
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