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.
| Namespace | http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml |
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| Description | This namespace defines the core elements and attributes used to describe documents in Microsoft Office Word 2003. |
| Prefix | w |
| Friendly Name | XML Document 2003 |
| Namespace | http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core |
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| Description | Contains two elements, SchemaLibrary and Schema, for the schemas referenced by a Word document. |
| Prefix | sl |
| Friendly Name | Schema Library |
| Namespace | http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core |
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| Description | Elements used to describe tracked changes (insertions, deletions, and formatting changes), comments, and bookmarks in Word documents only. |
| Prefix | aml |
| Friendly Name | Annotation Markup Language |
| Namespace | http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint |
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| Description | Supplemental 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. |
| Prefix | wx |
| Friendly Name | Auxiliary XML Document 2003 |
| Namespace | urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word |
|---|---|
| Description | Supplemental 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. |
| Prefix | w10 |
| Friendly Name | Auxiliary XML Document 2002 |
| Namespace | urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:vml |
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| Description | VML 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. |
| Prefix | v |
| Friendly Name | Vector Markup Language |