17.12.10 glossaryDocument

This element specifies the root element for a glossary document part within a WordprocessingML document. A glossary document is an supplementary document story in a WordprocessingML that shall be afforded all of the relationships of the Main Document part, such as:

• Style definitions
• Numbering definitions
• Comments
• Headers/footers
• Etc.

The entries stored in this part shall have all of its implicit relationships target these parts, rather than their analogues stored off of the main document part.

[Example: Consider the following definition for the contents of a glossary document part within a WordprocessingML document:

<w:glossaryDocument>
  <w:docParts>
    <w:docPart>
      …
    </w:docPart>
    <w:docPart>
      …
    </w:docPart>
  </w:docParts>
</w:glossaryDocument>

The glossaryDocument element defines the contents of the glossary document part. end example]

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_GlossaryDocument) is located in A.1. end note]