DocumentType Class

Document Classification.When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is w:documentType.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlElement
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlLeafElement
      DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.DocumentType

Namespace:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing
Assembly:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml (in DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class DocumentType _
    Inherits OpenXmlLeafElement
'Usage
Dim instance As DocumentType
public class DocumentType : OpenXmlLeafElement

Remarks

[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

17.15.1.30 documentType (Document Classification)

This element specifies the classification of a given WordprocessingML document.

[Note: This element can be used by hosting applications to facilitate customized user interface and/or automatic formatting behaviors based on the 'type' of a given WordprocessingML document. end note]

If this element is omitted, then the document shall be classified as a general document.

[Example: Consider a set of WordprocessingML documents which should be classified as 'letters'. This classification would be specified using the following WordprocessingML in the document settings of these documents:

<w:documentType w:val="letter" /> 

The documentType element's val attribute is equal to letter, specifying that the hosting application must apply the behaviors it has specified for letters to the given WordprocessingML document. end example]

Parent Elements

settings (§17.15.1.78)

Attributes

Description

val (Document Classification Value)

Specifies the classification of the document based on the types defined in the referenced simple type definition.

[Example: Consider a WordprocessingML document which should be classified as an e-mail message. This classification would be specified using the following WordprocessingML in the document settings:

<w:documentType w:val="eMail" /> 

The val attribute is equal to eMail, specifying that the hosting application can apply e-mail behaviors (if any) to this document. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_DocType simple type (§17.18.19).

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

© ISO/IEC29500: 2008.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

DocumentType Members

DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing Namespace