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Part 3: The 32-Bit Drivers : The XML Driver : Hierarchical-Formatted XML Document Support : Column Data Types
  
Column Data Types
The XML driver determines the column data types by inspecting the column values. The data type determination limits its data types to a subset of the DataDirect Format data types, as listed in the following table. For a complete list of DataDirect Format data types, see Supported Tabular Formats for XML Documents.
Data Type
Sample Values
wvchar
"Foo", "best320"
varbinary
"27AB2F9C"
int
"34","-7000"
unsignedint
"0", "123456789"
long
"-12345678012345"
unsignedlong
"123456789012345"
boolean
"true", "false"
date
1963-12-19
time
10:09:58
timeinstant
1963-12-19T10:09:58
decimal
1245.678