Element Type

Standard - An element with no special treatment (e.g., a standard XML element). For XML documents, the value of the element refers to the value of all text included within the element, provided there are no child elements. When you want to access mixed content, you must use an element type of XML Text to access the text between the child XML elements.

XML Attribute - (XML documents only) The element appears as an XML attribute. Child elements of this type must be of type value.

XML Processing Instruction - (XML documents only) The element appears as an XML processing instruction. Elements of this type cannot have child elements.

XML Text - (XML documents only) This element accesses text values, which is necessary only when accessing text values for mixed XML content, where text is interleaved with XML elements. Elements of this type cannot have child elements.

Value - This element's name is used to match the text value of its enclosing element. This is used to define possible code values for validation and mapping purposes. An element will have a child element with element type of Value for each possible code value. Elements of this type cannot have child elements.

Any - The content of this element can be any collection of elements, which are completely unspecified. Elements of this type cannot have child elements.