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                                of value spaces and lexical spaces of two or more other data types. A union
data
                                type enables an element or attribute value to be one or more instances of a
type
                                drawn from the union or combination of multiple atomic and list types.
                                Union types have a memberTypes attribute value that is a list of all the types
in the union.
                                Union types can also have pattern and enumeration facets.<br>
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                                Union data type elements may contain some attributes, which are described by
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#declare-datatype">
                                http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#declare-datatype.</a>
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                                Refer to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#UnionDt">
                                XML Schema Part 0: Primer</a> for more information on the union data type.<br>
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