DocumentID: ECMA-376/Part1/11.7
Title: ECMA-376, Part1: 11.7 Mail Merge Data Source
Extracted-From: ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats, 1st Edition / December 2006
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11.7 Mail Merge Data Source

A document that stores information about a mail merge operation is permitted to contain a Document Settings part (§11.3.3) whose relationship item targets the file location of the necessary data source using this relationship.

[Example: Consider a document specifying a mail merge whose data source is located at http://www.openxmlformats.org/data.txt:

<Relationships xmlns="...">
  <Relationship Id="rId1"
    Type="http://.../mailMergeSource"
    Target="http://www.openxmlformats.org/data.txt"
    TargetMode="External"/>
</Relationships>

The document's Document Settings part contains a dataSource element that explicitly references this relationship:

<w:settings ...>
  <w:mailMerge>
    ...
    <w:dataSource r:id="rId1" />
    ...
  </w:mailMerge>
</w:settings>

end example]

A mail merge data source shall be located external to the package containing the source relationship (expressed syntactically, the TargetMode attribute of the Relationship element shall be External).