3.2 Data Represented by the Persistence Format

Consider a back-end data store that contains the fields and field properties described in the following table.

Name	Number	Data Type	Max Length
name	1	string	10
bin	2	bin.hex	8
GUID	3	uuid	16
date	4	dateTime	16
float	6	float	8
flag	7	boolean	2

There are two rows, and the data contained in their fields is shown in the following table.

name	bin	GUID	date	float	flag
sample1	00000000499602d2	{8AC68D3D-8A09-4403-8860-D0E494BBE894}	2008-01-25T13:04:00Z	3.1415926535897932	0
sample2	null	null	2008-02-13T18:49:00Z	null	1

The preceding schema and data can be represented by using the ADO XML Persistence Format as follows:

 <xml xmlns:s='uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882'
   xmlns:dt='uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882'
     xmlns:rs='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset'
     xmlns:z='#RowsetSchema'>
 <s:Schema id='RowsetSchema'>
   <s:ElementType name='row' content='eltOnly' rs:CommandTimeout='30'>
         <s:AttributeType name='name' rs:number='1' >
             <s:datatype dt:type='string' dt:maxLength='10'  />
         </s:AttributeType>
         <s:AttributeType name='bin' rs:number='2' >
             <s:datatype dt:type='bin.hex' dt:maxLength='8' />
         </s:AttributeType>
         <s:AttributeType name='GUID' rs:number='3'>
             <s:datatype dt:type='uuid' dt:maxLength='16' />
         </s:AttributeType>
         <s:AttributeType name='date' rs:number='4' >
             <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime'  dt:maxLength='16'
                         rs:scale='0' rs:precision='16' />
         </s:AttributeType>
         <s:AttributeType name='float' rs:number='6' >
             <s:datatype dt:type='float' dt:maxLength='8'
                         rs:precision='17' />
         </s:AttributeType>
         <s:AttributeType name='flag' rs:number='7' >
             <s:datatype dt:type='boolean' dt:maxLength='2' />
         </s:AttributeType>
   </s:ElementType>
 </s:Schema>
 <rs:data>
     <z:row name='sample1' bin='00000000499602d2' 
            GUID='{8AC68D3D-8A09-4403-8860-D0E494BBE894}'
            date='2008-01-25T13:04:00Z'
            float='3.1415926535800001' flag='0'/>
     <z:row name='sample2' date='2008-02-13T18:49:00Z' flag='1'/>
 </rs:data>
 </xml>

The absence of an attribute, defined in RowsetSchema, in z:row element means that the field has a null value. For example, the data row with name="sample2" has null values of fields "bin", "GUID", and "float".