17.14.17 lid

This element specifies the language ID for the language which was used to generate the merge field name which was associated with a given column in the data source, as specified by the fieldMapData element (17.14.15). This element specifies that when this field mapping is processed by an application, it shall interpret the merge field name as the name for the specified language.

If this element is omitted, then the mapped field names specified in the current document can be interpreted using any method desired by the consuming application (i.e. no language data is included with the field mapping information).

[Example: Consider the following WordprocessingML fragment for a field mapping for a document to be merged to an external data source. If the merge field name stored in the file corresponds with the U.S. English version of the merge field names, that information would be stored as follows:

<w:fieldMapData>
  <w:name w:val="Title" />
  <w:mappedName w:val="Courtesy Title" />
  <w:column w:val="3" />
  <w:lid w:val="en-US" />
  …
</w:fieldMapData>

The lid element specifies that the mapping of the data contained in the fourth column of external data source named Title to the WordprocessingML of ‘Courtesy Title’, must be associated with the U.S. English language as specified by the val attribute equal to en-US. end example]

Attributes

val (Language Code)

Specifies an identifier for a specific language.

This code is interpreted in the context of the parent XML element.

[Example: Consider an object which must specify the English(Canada) language. That object would use an identifier of en-CA to specify this language. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_Lang simple type (22.9.2.6).

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