# 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.

Namespace | http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
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
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
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
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
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

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