formProt (Only Allow Editing of Form Fields)

This element specifies that the contents of the current section shall be protected such that they cannot be edited by a user (if the consumer is displaying the document and allowing the user to make modification) except for the text contained in any form field or embedded control that is part of the current section.

[Example: Consider a section consisting of three paragraphs of text and a single text form field, located at the beginning of the second paragraph. If this section is protected in this manner, a user would only be permitted to edit the contents of the text form field, and all other contents would be locked to prevent user edits. end example]

The enforcement of this property is determined by the documentProtection element (§2.15.1.28), as it is possible to specify protection without turning it on.

Parent Elements

sectPr (§2.6.17); sectPr (§2.6.18); sectPr (§2.6.19)

Attributes

Description

val (On/Off Value)

Specifies a binary value for the property defined by the parent XML element.

A value of on, 1, or true specifies that the property shall be explicitly applied. This is the default value for this attribute, and is implied when the parent element is present, but this attribute is omitted.

A value of off, 0, or false specifies that the property shall be explicitly turned off.

[Example: For example, consider the following on/off property:

<w:… w:val="off"/>

The val attribute explicitly declares that the property is turned off. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_OnOff simple type (§2.18.67).

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

</complexType>