17.18.7 ST_CharacterSpacing

This simple type specifies the possible ways in which full-width characters in the current WordprocessingML document can be compressed to remove additional whitespace when the contents of this document are displayed, specifically by specifying the set(s) of characters which can be compressed to remove additional whitespace.

[Example: Consider the WordprocessingML below:

<w:characterSpacingControl w:val="doNotCompress" />

The characterSpacingControl element has a val attribute value of doNotCompress, which specifies that no character compression shall be applied to any character when the document is displayed. 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 only whitespace characters shall have whitespace compression applied to them.

Specifies that whitespace and Japanese kana characters shall have whitespace compression applied to them.

Specifies that characters shall not have whitespace compression applied to them.

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