DocumentID: ECMA-376/Part3/2.14.8 Title: ECMA-376, Part3: 2.14.8 Bookmarks Extracted-From: ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats, 1st Edition / December 2006 Warning: Coverted to HTML format by a script known to have bugs
A bookmark refers to an arbitrary region of content that is bounded and has a unique name associated with it.
Because bookmarks are a legacy word-processing function that predates the concepts of XML and well-formedness, they can start and end at any location within a document's contents and, therefore, must use the cross-structure annotation format described in §2.14.3.
Consider the following WordprocessingML markup for two paragraphs, each reading Example Text, where a bookmark has been added spanning the second word in paragraph one and the first word in paragraph two:
<w:p>
<w:r>
<w:t>Example</w:t>
</w:r>
<w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="sampleBookmark" />
<w:r>
<w:t xml:space="preserve"> text.</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
<w:p>
<w:r>
<w:t>Example</w:t>
</w:r>
<w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0" />
<w:r>
<w:t xml:space="preserve"> text.</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
The bookmarkStart and bookmarkEnd elements specify the location where the bookmark starts and ends, but cannot contain it using a single tag because it spans parts of two paragraphs. However, the two tags are part of one group because the id attribute value specifies 0 for both.