This element specifies a single characteristic. The type of characteristic is defined by the name attribute.

[Example: A producer can inform the consumer that the computations used to calculate the stored numbers in the formulas belong to a value space expressed by ranges of the binary mantissa and exponent. A consumer can optionally check those characteristics to determine whether, for example, the values should be recalculated. The XML for this would be:

end example]

Parent Elements

additionalCharacteristics (§7.7.2.1)

Attributes

Description

name (Name of Characteristic)

Specifies the name of the characteristic. There are no constraints on the value of the name attribute, but each name shall be associated with a specific vocabulary via the vocabulary attribute.

The values defined by this Standard shall be associated with a null vocabulary value, and are as follows:

Name Value	Property Specified
numColumns	Number of Columns supported by the spreadsheet producer.
numRows	Number of Rows supported by the spreadsheet producer.
functionVersion	Version of the function specification used
precisionMantissa	Allowed values of the mantissa of numbers within spreadsheet cells/formulas when expressed in base 2.
precisionExponent	Allowed values of the exponent of numbers within spreadsheet cells/formulas when expressed in base 2.
numWorkbookColors	Number of Workbook colors
numConditionalFormatConditions	Number of condition format conditions on a workbook cell
nummaxSortLevels	Number of level of sorting on a range or table
numAutoFilterItems	Number of items shown in the Auto-filter dropdown
numDisplayCellChars	Number of characters that can display in a cell
numPrintCellChars	Number of characters per cell that Excel can print
numUnqiueCellStyles	Number of unique cell styles in a workbook (combinations of all cell formatting)
numFormulaLengthChars	Length of formulas in characters
numFormulaNestingLevel	Number of levels of formula nesting
numFunctionArguments	Number of arguments to a function
numPivotTableRows	Number of rows in a pivot table
numPivotTableColumns	Number of columns in a pivot table
numUniquePivotFieldItems	Number of unique items in a pivot field
numPivotTableMDXNameChars	Number of characters in a MDX name for a pivot table item
numPivotTableRelationChars	String length for a relationship pivot table
numPivotTableFieldLabelChars	Length of field labels in PivotTable including caption length limitations
numPivotTableFields	Number of fields in a pivot table
numSheetXRefArrayFormulas	The number of array formulas in a worksheet that can refer to another (given) worksheet

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the XML Schema string datatype.

relation (Relationship of Value to Name)

Specifies how the contents of the value attribute should be interpreted in the context of this characteristic.

[Example: The following would specify that the application supports from 0 to 10,000 columns, and that column ranges should be interpreted accordingly:

end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_Relation simple type (§7.7.3.1).

val (Characteristic Value)

Specifies the value of the characteristic.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the XML Schema string datatype.

vocabulary (Characteristic Grammar)

Specifies a URI defining the characteristic grammar with which the name attribute value shall be interpreted.

If this attribute is omitted, then the default grammar (as defined above) shall be used.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the XML Schema anyURI datatype.

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

</complexType>