Description Class

Description for Entry.When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is w:description.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlElement
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlLeafElement
      DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.StringType
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Description

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class Description _
    Inherits StringType
'Usage
Dim instance As Description
public class Description : StringType

Remarks

[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

17.12.4 description (Description for Entry)

This element specifies a description for the contents of this glossary document entry. This description can contain any string content, and allows the entry to have additional information contained within the definition for this glossary document entry. [Note: This description can be surfaced in a user interface, for example. end note]

[Example: Consider the following WordprocessingML fragment for the properties of a single glossary document entry:

<w:docPartPr>
…
<w:name w:val="Sample Entry" />
<w:description w:val="This is an example of a glossary document entry for example purposes." />
…
</w:docPartPr>

The description element specifies that the long description associated with the parent entry must be This is an example of a glossary document entry for example purposes. This value can be used as needed by an application, for example, to display in a user interface. end example]

Parent Elements

docPartPr (§17.12.7)

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

Description Members

DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing Namespace