Datatypes

Description

Data type

Explanation

Format

Boolean

dtBOOLEAN

The specification of the values "true" or "false" is not case-sensitive.

Sample values: TRUE, true, True



Positive Integer

dtCOUNT

No fractions. No floating point numbers. No negative numbers. "0" is permitted. No separator is allowed to delimit digits of 1000.

Sample values: 0,1, 2



Date and time

dtDATETIME

Date and optional time

Sample values:
2005-03-27T08:10:30+01:00
2005-03
2005-03-27
2005-03-27T08:10:30

We always specify our dates without time zone as follows: 2005-03-27T08:10:30 - Our orders always correspond to Central European Time (CET).

jjjj-mm-tt-Thh:mm:ss+zz:00

Float

dtFLOAT

Floating point number in 64-bit according to IEEE Standard 754 Decimal separator is the dot. No separator is allowed to delimit digits of 1000.

Sample values: 15.4, 4164.750



Integer

dtINTEGER

Integer with optional sign. No fractions. No floating point numbers. No separator is allowed to delimit digits of 1000.

Sample values: 1, 58502



Multilingual string

dtMLSTRING

This data type differs from the data type dtSTRING only by the additional attribute "lang", which it adds to the elements of the data type dtMLSTRING. The attribute "lang" can be used to specify the language of the text of the element. The language is specified in the attribute "lang" coded according to the data type dtLANG. In this way, several languages can be specified simultaneously in one document.



Numeric value

dtNUMBER

To be used when a more specific numeric format is not needed or is not practical. There is no restriction on minimum and maximum values, number of digits or number of decimal places. The decimal separator is the dot. No separator is allowed to delimit 1000s of digits.

Sample values: 15, 3.14



String

dtSTRING

Character string according to the encoding standard specified in the document. Digitec Galaxus uses UTF-8 throughout.

Sample values: Text, <b>text</b>



Enumerations

Description

Data type

Explanation

Format

Binary coded data

base64Binary

This data type is used to transport a file in coded form within the XML file. The file is not linked, but is contained in the XML document. The file must be encoded in the 'base64' procedure. Further information on the base64 encoding method can be found at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt. The data type base64Binary is provided by the W3C. Additional information on embedding files in XML can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-media-types/.



Country codes

dtCOUNTRIES

Country codes to indicate areas of availability (TERRITORY) according to ISO 3166 (https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html) a further subdivision of country codes, for example according to regions, the "Country Subdivision Codes" can be used.

Sample values:
DE (Germany)
US (USA)
DE-NW (Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany)
DK-025 (Kreis Roskilde in Denmark)

max. 6 characters

Currency codes

dtCURRENCIES

Currency codes to indicate currencies according to ISO 4217 (https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html)

Sample values:
EUR (Euro)
USD (US-Dollar)

exactly 3 characters

Language codes

dtLANG

Language codes to indicate the language used in texts or in images according to ISO 639 (https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-codes.html)

Sample values:
deu (deutsch)

exactly 3 characters

Order unit codes

dtPUNIT

This enumeration contains the permissible order units

Sample values:
C62 (=Item)

exactly 3 characters

Special datatypes

Description

Data type

Explanation

Format

Extensions header

udxHEADER

This data type is defined empty and is used to define user-defined non-openTRANS elements for the header.



Extensions position level

udxITEM

This data type is defined empty and is used to define user-defined non-openTRANS elements for item-level description.



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