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Note: In version 1.3.2 the Length and SignificantDigits attributes were used to express the requirements for the receiving system. In version 2.0 the meaning of the Length attribute remains the same for the text and string datatypes, but was changed for the numeric datatypes and became optional for all datatypes. The SignificantDigits attribute was renamed to FractionDigits.If DataType=text or string and the Length attribute is provided, Length=N indicates that the receiving system be able to process and store all text string values of length less than or
equal to N. All characters are allowed in text string values.
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