Office Open XML Technical Reference

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Office Open XML Technical Reference

Important: Read this entire document before starting. This document covers:

Technical Guidelines - Schema compliance rules and validation requirements
Document Content Patterns - XML patterns for headings, lists, tables, formatting, etc.
Document Library (Python) - Recommended approach for OOXML manipulation with automatic infrastructure setup
Tracked Changes (Redlining) - XML patterns for implementing tracked changes

Technical Guidelines

Schema Compliance

Element ordering in
<w:pPr>
:

<w:pStyle>

<w:numPr>

<w:spacing>

<w:ind>

<w:jc>

Whitespace: Add
```
xml:space='preserve'
```
to
```
<w:t>
```
elements with leading/trailing spaces
Unicode: Escape characters in ASCII content:
```
"
```
becomes
```
&#8220;
```
- Character encoding reference: Curly quotes
```
""
```
  become
```
&#8220;&#8221;
```
  , apostrophe
```
'
```
  beco

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