L.1.16.3 Web Settings

A web setting is a setting used to specify a document-level property that is applicable when saving a web page as a WordprocessingML document, or when saving a WordprocessingML document as a webpage. Thus, if a given WordprocessingML document was not created from a web page, and never becomes a web page, no web settings are needed within the document. If they are needed, web settings are stored in the Web Settings part.

Consider a document in which the web setting allowPNG is applied. As a web setting, this element specifies if the PNG graphics format is used for persisting images when saving the document as a web page. Specifically, if the PNG graphics format is used when saving a document as a web page, this requirement would be specified by adding the following WordprocessingML to the settings part:

<w:webSettings>
  <w:allowPNG />
</w:webSettings>

If this element is omitted, then the JPEG graphics format is used for persisting images when saving the document as a web page.