Property element

Property element

The Property element names a property and defines its data type.

Attributes

name

Names the property. The name must be unique within the collection of properties belonging to a parent element.

datatype

Defines the property's data type: see Data types.

Data types

The datatype attribute defines the data type of a property. It can be defined as either a numeric or a string value, as follows:

Value	Data type	Notes
0	Empty	Do not specify a value for the Property element.
1	Null	Do not specify a value for the Property element.
2	Integer
3	Long
4	Single
5	Double
6	Currency
7	Date	Put the value in a CDATA element.
8	String	Put the value in a CDATA element.
11	Boolean
12	Variant	Put the value in a CDATA element.
13	Byte