17.18.52 ST_MailMergeDataType

This simple type specifies the data source access mechanism used to connect to the data source for a mail merge. This setting is purely a suggestion of the data source access mechanism which shall be used, and can be ignored in favor of an alternative mechanism if one is present.

Although this any access mechanism value can be specified, the following values are reserved:

Value

Description

Specifies that a given merged WordprocessingML document has been connected to an external data source via the data stored in the Office Data Source Object (ODSO) interface (17.14.25).

Specifies that a given merged WordprocessingML document has been connected to an external data source via ODBC.

Specifies that a given merged WordprocessingML document has been connected to an external data source using an external query file.

Specifies that a given WordprocessingML document has been connected to a data source using SOAP.

Specifies that a given WordprocessingML document has been connected to a spreadsheet.

Specifies that a given WordprocessingML document has been connected to a text file.

Specifies that a given WordprocessingML document has been connected to an external data source via XQuery.

Specifies that a given WordprocessingML document has been connected to an XML file.

[Example: Consider the following WordprocessingML fragment for a mail merge source or merged document:

<w:dataType w:val="odbc" />

The dataType element’s val attribute is equal to odbc, specifying that the given merged WordprocessingML document has been connected to an external data source via the ODBC. end example]

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

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