3.1.1.3 Mail Merge Recipient Data Part

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Content Type

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.mailMergeRecipientData+xml

or

application/vnd.ms-word.mailMergeRecipientData+xml

Root Namespace

http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main

or

http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml

Source Relationship

http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/recipientData

An instance of this part type contains the document’s Mail Merge Recipient Data.

A package shall contain no more than one Mail Merge Recipient Data part. If it exists, the instance of that part shall be the target of an explicit relationship from the Document Settings part.

[Example:

 <Relationships xmlns="…">
   <Relationship Id="rId2"
     Type="http://…/recipientData" Target="recipientData.xml"/>
 </Relationships>

end example]

The root element for a Mail Merge Recipient Data part shall be recipients.

[Example:

 <w:recipients xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" …>
   <w:recipientData>
     <w:active w:val="0" />
     <w:column w:val="62">
     <w:uniqueTag w:val="KnmjIQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&#xA;
 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&#xA;
 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=" />   
   </wne:recipientData>   
   …    
 </wne:recipients>

In this example, the content type is "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.mailMergeRecipientData+xml".

end example]

[Example:

 <wne:recipients xmlns:wne="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml …>
   <wne:recipientData>
     <wne:active wne:val="1" />
     <wne:hash wne:val="2094012985">
   </wne:recipientData>   
   …    
 </wne:recipients>

In this example, the content type is "application/vnd.ms-word.mailMergeRecipientData+xml".

end example]

A Mail Merge Recipient Data part shall be located within the package containing the source relationship (expressed syntactically, the TargetMode attribute of the Relationship element shall be Internal).

A Mail Merge Recipient Data part shall not contain implicit or explicit relationships to any other part defined by Office Open XML File Formats [ISO/IEC-29500-1].