Hello Dave

Download Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas and Documentation
Schemas are available for Excel 2003, InfoPath 2003, Visio 2003, and Word
2003
Download the O2003XMLREF2.exe and install it.

Then You have a directory with the XSD Files and a HelpDocument on your
desk..

hth
willib



"David Thielen" <thielen@n...> wrote in message
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> Hi;
>
> I have both of those. The first is the online help for the elements which
is
> very useful - but is not a schema you can use to validate xml you create.
>
> The second link gives you every schema except the main one (as far as I
can
> tell)? So again, no way to validate.
>
> ??? - thanks - dave
>
>
> "willib sqtm.net>" wrote:
>
> > hello dave
> >
> > http://rep.oio.dk/Microsoft.com/officeschemas/welcome.htm
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml
> >
> > hth
> > willib
> > "David Thielen" <thielen@n...> wrote in message
> > news:B66E80CB-ADEC-4275-938D-21EF2951DD07@m......
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > > To get back to my original question - where can I get that schema?
> > >
> > > thanks - dave
> > >
> > >
> > > "Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for your followup Dave,
> > > >
> > > > Yes, of course namespace should never be omitted. What I means in
the
> > > > former message is the namespace's Prefix, that's just a alias for a
> > certain
> > > > namespace and a certain namespace can have different
> > > > Prefix in different document ,for example:
> > > >
> > > > in DOC A
> > > > xmlns:ns1 = "http://xml.test.com"
> > > >
> > > > in DOC B
> > > > xmlns:ns2 = "http://xml.test.com"
> > > >
> > > > ns1 and ns2 just refer to the same namespace though their prefix are
> > > > different from each other.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Steven Cheng
> > > > Microsoft Online Support
> > > >
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