This element specifies that the parent style, when in use in the context of an e-mail message, was used by default to format all message text from one or more users. [Note: This setting does not provide any additional semantic about the style, but may be used in the context of e-mail to automatically reformat the contents of the e-mail message while ignoring any content to which styles were deliberately applied (since this style was implicitly applied to message text without user interaction). end note]

If this element is specified on a style of any type other than a character style, this element shall be ignored. If no style whose styleId matches the val attribute of this element exists or that style is not a character style, this element shall be ignored.

If this element is omitted, then the current style shall not be considered a message text style in the context of e-mail messages.

[Example: Consider a style defined as follows in a WordprocessingML document:

<w:style w:styleId="EmailText" w:type="character" >
<w:name w:val="EmailText"/>
<w:personal w:val="true" />
<w:rPr>
…
</w:rPr>
</w:style>

This style specifies via the use of the personal element that this style is a style used to format message text in the context of e-mail. end example]

Parent Elements

style (§2.7.3.17)

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>