11.3.3 Document Settings Part

Content Type:

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.settings+xml

Root Namespace:

http://purl.oclc.org/ooxml/wordprocessingml/main

Source Relationship:

http://purl.oclc.org/ooxml/officeDocument/relationships/settings

An instance of this part type contains all the document’s properties.

A package shall contain no more than two Document Settings parts. If it exists, one instance of that part shall be the target of an implicit relationship from the Main Document (11.3.10) part, and the other shall be the target of an implicit relationship from the Glossary Document (11.3.8) part.

[Example: The following Main Document part-relationship item contains a relationship to a Document Settings part, which is stored in the ZIP item settings.xml:

<Relationships xmlns="…">
  <Relationship Id="rId4"
    Type="http://…/settings" Target="settings.xml"/>
</Relationships>

end example]

The root element for a part of this content type shall be settings.

[Example:

<w:settings … >
  …
  <w:defaultTabStop w:val="360"/>
  <w:footnotePr>
    …
  </w:footnotePr>
  <w:endnotePr>
  …
  </w:endnotePr>
  <w:rsids>
  …
  </w:rsids>
  …
</w:settings>

end example]

A Document Settings part shall be located within the package containing the relationships part (expressed syntactically, the TargetMode attribute of the Relationship element shall be Internal).

A Document Settings part is permitted to contain explicit relationships to the following parts defined by ISO/IEC 29500:

• Document Template (11.4)
• Mail Merge Data Source (11.7)
• Mail Merge Header Data Source (11.8)
• XSL Transformation (11.9)

A Document Settings part shall not have any implicit or explicit relationships to any other part defined by ISO/IEC 29500.