NextParagraphStyle Class

Style For Next Paragraph.When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is w:next.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlElement
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlLeafElement
      DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.String253Type
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.NextParagraphStyle

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class NextParagraphStyle _
    Inherits String253Type
'Usage
Dim instance As NextParagraphStyle
public class NextParagraphStyle : String253Type

Remarks

[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

17.7.2.10 next (Style For Next Paragraph)

This element specifies the style which shall automatically be applied to a new paragraph created following a paragraph with the parent paragraph style applied. [Note: This setting is typically used when the use of the current style is limited to one paragraph at most, and it would typically be undesirable to apply this style to following paragraphs - for example, a title style might specify that its following paragraphs must return to regular text formatting. end note]

If this element is specified on a style of any style type other than a paragraph style, this element shall be ignored. If no style whose styleId matches the val attribute of this element exists or that style is not a paragraph style, this element shall be ignored.

If this element is omitted, then the following paragraph shall use the same paragraph style as the current paragraph.

[Example: Consider a style defined as follows in a WordprocessingML document:

<w:style w:styleId="TestParagraphStyle" … >
<w:name w:val="Test Paragraph Style"/>
<w:next w:val="AnotherParagraphStyle"/>
<w:rPr>
<w:b/>
</w:rPr>
…
</w:style>

This style specifies via the use of the next element that the style for the next paragraph in the document must be the paragraph style whose styleId attribute value is AnotherParagraphStyle (if such a paragraph style exists). end example]

Parent Elements

style (§17.7.4.17)

Attributes

Description

val (String Value)

Specifies that its contents contain a string.

The contents of this string are interpreted based on the context of the parent XML element.

[Example: Consider the following WordprocessingML fragment:

<w:pPr>
  <w:pStyle w:val="heading1" /> 
</w:pPr>

The value of the val attribute is the ID of the associated paragraph style's styleId.

However, consider the following fragment:

<w:sdtPr>
  <w:alias w:val="SDT Title Example" />
  …
</w:sdtPr>

In this case, the decimal number in the val attribute is the caption of the parent structured document tag. In each case, the value is interpreted in the context of the parent element. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_String simple type (§22.9.2.13).

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_String) 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

NextParagraphStyle Members

DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing Namespace