diff --git a/examples/protected-document.tsx b/examples/protected-document.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c6500e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/protected-document.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/** @jsx  Docx.jsx */
+import { Text } from '../lib/components/document/src/Text.ts';
+import type { DocumentProtectionProps } from '../lib/files/src/SettingsXml.ts';
+import { cm } from '../lib/utilities/src/length.ts';
+import Docx, { Paragraph, Section } from '../mod.ts';
+
+const docxFile = Docx.fromNothing();
+
+const documentProtection: DocumentProtectionProps = {
+	edit: 'readOnly',
+	enforcement: true,
+};
+
+docxFile.document.settings.set('documentProtection', documentProtection);
+
+docxFile.document.set(
+	<Section pageWidth={cm(20)} pageHeight={cm(20)}>
+		<Paragraph>
+			<Text>This is some protected text</Text>
+		</Paragraph>
+	</Section>
+);
+
+await docxFile.toFile('protected-document.docx');
diff --git a/lib/files/src/SettingsXml.ts b/lib/files/src/SettingsXml.ts
index 7e87bd2..aa4b6e3 100644
--- a/lib/files/src/SettingsXml.ts
+++ b/lib/files/src/SettingsXml.ts
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ export class SettingsXml extends XmlFileWithContentTypes {
 					if ($attachedTemplate) then element ${QNS.w}attachedTemplate {
 						attribute ${QNS.r}id { $attachedTemplate }
 					} else (),
-					if ($documentProtection) then element ${QNS.w}documentProtection {
-						attribute ${QNS.w}edit { map:get($documentProtection, 'edit') },
-						attribute ${QNS.w}enforcement { map:get($documentProtection, 'enforcement') }
+					if (exists($documentProtection)) then element ${QNS.w}documentProtection {
+						if ($documentProtection('edit')) then attribute ${QNS.w}edit { $documentProtection('edit')} else (),
+						attribute ${QNS.w}enforcement { $documentProtection('enforcement') }
 					} else (),
 					if (exists($footnoteProperties)) then (
 						element ${QNS.w}footnotePr {
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ export class SettingsXml extends XmlFileWithContentTypes {
 							}
 						}
 					) else (),
-					 if (exists($defaultTabStop)) then element ${QNS.w}defaultTabStop {
-						attribute ${QNS.w}val { map:get($defaultTabStop, 'twip') }
+					if (exists($defaultTabStop)) then element ${QNS.w}defaultTabStop {
+						attribute ${QNS.w}val { $defaultTabStop('twip') }
 					} else ()
 				}
 			</w:settings>`,
@@ -280,7 +280,17 @@ export class SettingsXml extends XmlFileWithContentTypes {
 			`/${QNS.w}settings/map {
 				"isTrackChangesEnabled": docxml:ct-on-off(./${QNS.w}trackChanges),
 				"evenAndOddHeaders": docxml:ct-on-off(./${QNS.w}evenAndOddHeaders),
-				"documentProtection": docxml:ct-on-off(./${QNS.w}documentProtection)
+				"documentProtection": if (./${QNS.w}documentProtection) then (
+					let $edit := string(./${QNS.w}documentProtection/@${QNS.w}edit)
+					let $enforcement := docxml:st-on-off(./${QNS.w}documentProtection/@${QNS.w}enforcement)
+					return if ($edit)
+					then map {
+						"edit": $edit,
+						"enforcement": $enforcement
+					} else map {
+						"enforcement": $enforcement
+					}
+				) else ()
 			}`,
 			xml
 		);
diff --git a/lib/files/test/SettingsXml.test.ts b/lib/files/test/SettingsXml.test.ts
index 2f6a6ae..28f51a2 100644
--- a/lib/files/test/SettingsXml.test.ts
+++ b/lib/files/test/SettingsXml.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 import { expect } from 'std/expect';
 import { describe, it } from 'std/testing/bdd';
 
+import Docx from '@fontoxml/docxml';
+
 import { RelationshipType } from '../../enums.ts';
+import { serialize } from '../../utilities/src/dom.ts';
 import { pt } from '../../utilities/src/length.ts';
-import { SettingsXml } from '../src/SettingsXml.ts';
+import {
+	type DocumentProtectionProps,
+	SettingsXml,
+} from '../src/SettingsXml.ts';
 
 describe('SettingsXml', () => {
 	it('evenAndOddHeaders', () => {
@@ -51,7 +57,7 @@ describe('SettingsXml', () => {
 			position: 'beneathText',
 		});
 	});
-	it('DocumentProtectionProps', () => {
+	it('documentProtection with edit property', async () => {
 		const settings = new SettingsXml('test');
 		expect(settings.get('documentProtection')).toBe(null);
 		settings.set('documentProtection', {
@@ -62,5 +68,44 @@ describe('SettingsXml', () => {
 			edit: 'readOnly',
 			enforcement: true,
 		});
+
+		expect(serialize(await settings.$$$toNode())).toEqual(
+			`<w:settings xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"><w:documentProtection w:edit="readOnly" w:enforcement="true"/></w:settings>`
+		);
+
+		const docx = Docx.fromNothing();
+		const customSettings: DocumentProtectionProps = {
+			edit: 'trackedChanges',
+			enforcement: false,
+		};
+		docx.document.settings.set('documentProtection', customSettings);
+		const docxFromArchive = await Docx.fromArchive(await docx.toArchive());
+		expect(
+			docxFromArchive.document.settings.get('documentProtection')
+		).toEqual(customSettings);
+	});
+	it('documentProtection without edit', async () => {
+		const settings = new SettingsXml('test');
+		expect(settings.get('documentProtection')).toBe(null);
+		settings.set('documentProtection', {
+			enforcement: true,
+		});
+		expect(settings.get('documentProtection')).toEqual({
+			enforcement: true,
+		});
+
+		expect(serialize(await settings.$$$toNode())).toEqual(
+			`<w:settings xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"><w:documentProtection w:enforcement="true"/></w:settings>`
+		);
+
+		const docx = Docx.fromNothing();
+		const customSettings: DocumentProtectionProps = {
+			enforcement: false,
+		};
+		docx.document.settings.set('documentProtection', customSettings);
+		const docxFromArchive = await Docx.fromArchive(await docx.toArchive());
+		expect(
+			docxFromArchive.document.settings.get('documentProtection')
+		).toEqual(customSettings);
 	});
 });