Setting field properties

Each one of these fields over on the right has properties of its own. Each…one of these fields is what's called a node, N O D E. That's a term for XML…because we're actually creating an XML schema here that describes our data.…So this is our top node or our root node, and underneath that we have a node for…TodaysDate, a node for FirstName, and so on.…So I have properties that I can change here on my fields, if I select the field.…We've already changed the Name property for one of our fields so we know how to…do that; we'll talk about type later on in this chapter.…

Datatype is what do I expect the user to place in this field.…Now the broadest, the most general here, is to allow someone to enter text or string of text.…But then I can be very specific. I can say well they can format that text, that's…what Rich Text is; or I'm expecting a whole number. You would use whole…number for things like how many children in the family or how many pairs of…shoes do you want to order; things where you really can't enter a decimal number,…