17.18.4 ST_BrType

This simple type specifies the possible kinds of break characters in a WordprocessingML document. The break type determines the next location where text shall be placed after this manual break is applied to the text contents (see enumeration values for details).

[Example: Consider a manual break which must advance the text to the next text column in the document, rather than just the next available line. This break would therefore be specified as follows:

<w:br w:type="column"/>

The type attribute specifies a value of column, which means that the break must force the next character in the document to be restarted on the next line in a new text column in the document. end example]

This simple type’s contents are a restriction of the W3C XML Schema string datatype.

This simple type is restricted to the values

listed in the following table:

Enumeration Value

Description

Specifies that the current break shall restart itself on the next column available on the current page.

If the current section is not divided into columns, or the column break occurs in the last column on the current page when displayed, then the restart location for text shall be the next page in the document.

Specifies that the current break shall restart itself on the next page of the document.

Page breaks shall be ignored when present in frames.

Specifies that the current break shall restart itself on the next line in the document

The determination of the next line shall be done subject to the value of the clear attribute on the specified break character.

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