Word Schema Overview

The following schemas are used with WordProcessingML, an XML dialect useful for extracting information from Microsoft Office Office Word 2003. These are important to document developers and to application developers whose programs will read and write WordprocessingML documents.

Namespacehttp://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
DescriptionThis namespace defines the core elements and attributes used to describe documents in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
Prefixw
Friendly Name XML Document 2003
Namespacehttp://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core
DescriptionContains two elements, SchemaLibrary and Schema, for the schemas referenced by a Word document.
Prefixsl
Friendly Name Schema Library
Namespacehttp://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core
DescriptionElements used to describe tracked changes (insertions, deletions, and formatting changes), comments, and bookmarks in Word documents only.
Prefixaml
Friendly Name Annotation Markup Language
Namespacehttp://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint
DescriptionSupplemental XML information added in 2003 that serves as "hints" for transformation of a Word document to HTML format; for example, font, color, border, and absolute positioning information.
Prefixwx
Friendly Name Auxiliary XML Document 2003
Namespaceurn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word
DescriptionSupplemental XML information added to VML output that serves as a container for additional properties used by Word: for example: relative/absolute positioning, anchoring, text wrapping.
Prefixw10
Friendly Name Auxiliary XML Document 2002
Namespaceurn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:vml
DescriptionVML is an application of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 which defines a format for the encoding of vector information together with additional markup to describe how that information may be displayed and edited.
Prefixv
Friendly Name Vector Markup Language
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