ur-type

plural ur-types · alternative urtype

1. A basic, primitive, or original type; prototype.

   The array in the following example is of type ur-type, which is the base type of all the other XML schema types. The ur-type is analogous to the Object type in Java.

   2004, Richard Monson-Haefel, J2EE Web services

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   The simple ur-type is the value of the primitive type definition and base type definition properties of a simple type if—and only ... No simple types not defined in the Schema Recommendation may be directly derived from the simple ur-type.

   2003, Cliff Binstock, The XML Schema Complete Reference