Footnotes and Endnotes

As described above, footnote and endnote information is stored in the corresponding footnotes and endnotes part within the package. The <footnotes> element below specifies three or more footnotes, each identified by the <footnote> element, for the document. The <endnotes> element specifies three or more endnotes, each identified by the <endnote> element, for the document. Each <footnote> or <endnote> element is associated with a unique ID, specified by the attribute @id.

Consider three different types of footnotes, each identified by a <footnote> element, defined in the Footnotes part. The use of each type of footnote is defined in the next subclause:

<w:footnotes ...>
  <w:footnote w:type="separator" w:id="0">
    …
  </w:footnote>
  <w:footnote w:type="continuationSeparator" w:id="1">
    …
  </w:footnote>
  <w:footnote w:id="2">
    …
  </w:footnote>
</w:footnotes>

Similarly consider three different types of endnotes, each identified by an <endnote> element, defined in the Endnotes part. The use of each type of endnote is defined in the next subclause:

<w:endnotes ...>
  <w:endnote w:type="separator" w:id="0">
    …
  </w:endnote>
  <w:endnote w:type="continuationSeparator" w:id="1">
    …
  </w:endnote>
  <w:endnote w:id="2">
    …
  </w:endnote>
</w:endnotes>

Footnotes and endnotes are just another kind of paragraph in WordprocessingML. Within the <footnote> or <endnote> element, the footnote or endnote may contain any valid block-level content.