Usage of <Reference> Element as <Manifest> Child Element

The producer shall create a <Reference> element within a <Manifest> element with a @URI attribute and that attribute shall contain a part name, without a fragment identifier. The consumer shall consider a <Reference> element with a URI attribute that does not contain a part name to be an error. [M6.18]

References to package parts include the part content type as a query component. The syntax of the relative reference is as follows:

/page1.xml?ContentType="value"

where value is the content type of the targeted part.

Note:

Example 12–2. Part reference with query component

In the following example, the content type is “application/vnd.ms-package.relationships+xml”.

URI="/_rels/document.xml.rels?ContentType=application/vnd.ms-package.relationships+xml"