<fldData> (Custom Field Data)

This element specifies custom field data which shall be associated with the parent field. No information or semantics are applied to the contents of this data by this Office Open XML Standard, and therefore this field may be used as desired to store additional application-specific data with the field. However, applications should not lose the contents of this custom data if they do not understand or utilize it (i.e. the information should continue to be saved with the file).

If this element is omitted, then no custom field data is stored with the parent field.

example: 
<w:fldSimple w:instr="PRIVATE">
  <w:fldData xml:space="preserve">///3645ERKJHE</w:fldData>
</w:fldSimple>

The <fldData> element contains custom data stored with this PRIVATE field (§2.16.5.55), the contents of which are determined by a hosting application. ]

Parent Elements

<fldSimple> (§2.16.21)

Attributes

Description

<space> (Content Contains Significant Whitespace)

Namespace: http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

Specifies how white space should be handled for the contents of this element using the W3C space preservation rules.

<w:r>
  <w:t>significant whitespace   </w:t>
</w:r>

Although there are three spaces on each side of the text content in the run, that whitespace has not been specifically marked as significant, therefore it is removed when this run is added to the document. ]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the type in the namespace.

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_Text">
	<simpleContent>
	<extension base="ST_String">
	<attribute ref="xml:space" use="optional"/>
	</extension>
	</simpleContent>
</complexType>