There are a number of schema namespaces used in the XML support for the Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 programs. These namespaces provide a consistent structure for data used within Office applications and for reliable data exchanges with other applications and systems.
Each namespace has a distinct purpose. This document serves as in introduction to these namespaces and provides a brief description of each namespace, its prefix, and its friendly name.
SpreadsheetML Schemas:
The following schemas are used with SpreadsheetML, an XML dialect useful for extracting information from Excel spreadsheets.
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uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882 |
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Description |
This namespace contains the data types that can be used for columns in PivotTables. |
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dt |
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Friendly Name |
Data Type |
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urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset |
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Description |
This namespace is used to describe the attibutes of the row element for PivotTables. |
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Prefix |
rs |
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Friendly Name |
Rowset |
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uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882 |
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Description |
This namespace contains elements and attributes which describe the row elements for PivotTables. |
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Prefix |
s |
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Friendly Name |
Rowset Definition |
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#RowsetSchema |
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Description |
This namespace provides a description of a generalized row element that is used as a model for validation purposes when using PivotTables. |
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Prefix |
z |
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Friendly Name |
Model Row |
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http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc |
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Description |
This namespace contains elements and attributes which describe Universal Data Connections that are used in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to connect to external data sources. |
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udc |
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Friendly Name |
Universal Data Connection |
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http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap |
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Description |
This namespace defines external data connections when using the SOAP protocol. |
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udcs |
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Friendly Name |
Universal Data Connection SOAP |
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http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile |
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Description |
This namespace defines only one element, File, which specifies the pathname of an XML file that is used by UDC. |
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udcxf |
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Friendly Name |
Universal Data Connection XML File |
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urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet |
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Description |
This namespace contains the elements and attributes related to basic spreadsheets functionality. |
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ss |
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Friendly Name |
XML Spreadsheet 2002 |
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urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel |
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Description |
This namespace defines elements and attributes used to describe more complex features of Excel, such as PivotTables, worksheet options, and validation. |
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x |
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Friendly Name |
XML Spreadsheet 2000 |
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http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml |
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Description |
This namespace contains functionality added in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, which mainly includes mapping XML documents |
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Prefix |
x2 |
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Friendly Name |
XML Spreadsheet 2003 |
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http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile |
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Description |
This namespace defines only one element, File, which specifies the pathname of an XML file that is used by UDC. |
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udcxf |
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Friendly Name |
Universal Data Connection XML File |
WordprocessingML Schemas:
These are important to document developers and to application developers whose programs will read and write WordprocessingML documents.
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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. |
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sl |
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Friendly Name |
Schema Library |
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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. |
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aml |
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Friendly Name |
Annotation Markup Language |
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http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml |
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Description |
This namespace defines the core elements and attributes used to describe document in Microsoft Office Word 2003 |
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w |
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Friendly Name |
XML Document 2003 |
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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. |
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wx |
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Friendly Name |
Auxiliary XML Document 2003 |
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urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word |
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Description |
Supplemental XML information that serves as "hints" for transformation of a Word document to HTML format; for example, font, color, border, and absolute positioning information. |
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w10 |
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Friendly Name |
Auxiliary XML Document 2002 |
Shared Schemas:
The elements in these schemas are shared by Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003.
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urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office |
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Description |
Shared office schema. Document properties collection (author, createdate, etc.) and document statistics (word count, etc.) |
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o |
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Friendly Name |
Common Properties |
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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. |
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v |
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Friendly Name |
Vector Markup Language |