L.1.12.3 Footnotes and Endnotes

As described above, footnote and endnote information is stored in the corresponding footnotes and endnotes part within the package. The footnotes element below specifies three or more footnotes, each identified by the footnote element, for the document. The endnotes element specifies three or more endnotes, each identified by the endnote element, for the document. Each footnote or endnote element is associated with a unique ID, specified by the attribute id.

Consider three different types of footnotes, each identified by a footnote element, defined in the Footnotes part. The use of each type of footnote is defined in the next subclause:

<w:footnotes …>
  <w:footnote w:type="separator" w:id="0">
    …
  </w:footnote>
  <w:footnote w:type="continuationSeparator" w:id="1">
    …
  </w:footnote>
  <w:footnote w:id="2">
    …
  </w:footnote>
</w:footnotes>

Similarly consider three different types of endnotes, each identified by an endnote element, defined in the Endnotes part. The use of each type of endnote is defined in the next subclause:

<w:endnotes …>
  <w:endnote w:type="separator" w:id="0">
    …
  </w:endnote>
  <w:endnote w:type="continuationSeparator" w:id="1">
    …
  </w:endnote>
  <w:endnote w:id="2">
    …
  </w:endnote>
</w:endnotes>

Footnotes and endnotes are just another kind of paragraph in WordprocessingML. Within the footnote or endnote element, the footnote or endnote can contain any valid block-level content, as defined by the WordprocessingML schema.