NumberingInstance Class

Numbering Definition Instance.When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is w:num.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlElement
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlCompositeElement
      DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.NumberingInstance

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

Syntax

'Declaration
<ChildElementInfoAttribute(GetType(AbstractNumId))> _
<ChildElementInfoAttribute(GetType(LevelOverride))> _
Public Class NumberingInstance _
    Inherits OpenXmlCompositeElement
'Usage
Dim instance As NumberingInstance
[ChildElementInfoAttribute(typeof(AbstractNumId))]
[ChildElementInfoAttribute(typeof(LevelOverride))]
public class NumberingInstance : OpenXmlCompositeElement

Remarks

The following table lists the possible child types:

  • AbstractNumId <w:abstractNumId>

  • LevelOverride <w:lvlOverride>

[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

17.9.16 num (Numbering Definition Instance)

This element specifies a unique instance of numbering information that can be referenced by zero or more paragraphs within the parent WordprocessingML document.

This instance requires the referencing of a base abstract numbering definition through the abstractNumId child element (§17.9.2). This element also can be used to specify a set of optional overrides applied to zero or more levels from the abstract numbering definition inherited by this instance second though the optional lvlOverride child elements (§17.9.9).

[Example: Consider the WordprocessingML for a document with four numbering definition instances, two of which reference the same underlying abstract numbering definition:

<w:numbering>
…
<w:num w:numId="2">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="0" />
</w:num>
<w:num w:numId="3">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="1" />
</w:num>
<w:num w:numId="4">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="4" />
</w:num>
<w:num w:numId="5">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="4" />
</w:num>
</w:numbering>

As shown above, the first two numbering definition instances reference abstractNumId values of 0 and 1 respectively, and the last two both reference the abstract numbering definition with an abstractNumId of 4. end example]

[Example: Consider a numbering definition instance which inherits its information from the abstract numbering definition with abstractNumId of 4, but wishes to use a different set of properties for level 0 of the numbering definition. The resulting WordprocessingML would look like:

<w:num w:numId="6">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="4" />
<w:lvlOverride w:ilvl="0">
<w:lvl w:ilvl="0">
<w:start w:val="4" />
<w:lvlText w:val="%1)" />
<w:lvlJc w:val="left" />
<w:pPr>
<w:ind w:left="360" w:hanging="360" />
</w:pPr>
</w:lvl>
</w:lvlOverride>
</w:num>

The lvlOverride element specifies an override for level 0 of the abstract numbering definition. end example]

Parent Elements

numbering (§17.9.17)

Child Elements

Subclause

abstractNumId (Abstract Numbering Definition Reference)

§17.9.2

lvlOverride (Numbering Level Definition Override)

§17.9.9

Attributes

Description

numId (Numbering Definition Instance ID)

Specifies a unique ID which any numbered paragraph which wishes to inherit these numbering properties shall reference using the numPr element (§17.3.1.19).

[Example: Consider the WordprocessingML below for an example numbered paragraph:

<w:p>
<w:pPr>
<w:numPr>
<w:ilvl w:val="0" />
<w:numId w:val="5" />
</w:numPr>
</w:pPr> 
  …
</w:p>

This paragraph references a numbering definition instance with a numId attribute of 5:

<w:num w:numId="5">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="4" />
</w:num>

The numbering definition instance with a numId attribute of 5 correlates with the numbered paragraph with the numbering definition instance referent element with a val of 5, so the numbered paragraph inherits its properties. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_DecimalNumber simple type (§17.18.10).

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

NumberingInstance Members

DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing Namespace