Additional Characteristics Part

Content Type:

application/xml

Root Namespace:

http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/additionalCharacteristics

Source Relationship:

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

An instance of this part type contains information about additional characteristics of the producer that generated the document, when those characteristics cannot be specified using elements defined by this Standard.

A package is permitted to contain zero or one Additional Characteristics parts, and each such part shall be the target of an implicit relationship from a Main Document (§11.3.10) part in a WordprocessingML package; a Workbook (§12.3.23) part in a SpreadsheetML package; or a Handout Master (§13.3.3) , Notes Master (§13.3.4), Notes Slide (§13.3.5), Presentation (§13.3.6), Slide (§13.3.8), Slide Layout (§13.3.9), or Slide Master (§13.3.10) part in a PresentationML package.

example: 
<Relationships xmlns="…">
  <Relationship Id="rId1" 
    Type="http://…/customXmlData" Target="../customXML/item2.xml"/>
</Relationships>

An Additional Characteristics part shall be located within the package containing the source relationship (expressed syntactically, the @TargetMode attribute of the <Relationship> element shall be Internal).

An Additional Characteristics part is permitted to have implicit relationships to the following parts defined by this Standard:

  • Custom XML Data Storage Properties (§15.2.5)

An Additional Characteristics part shall not have implicit or explicit relationships to any other part defined by this Standard.