Appendix C. The XSD You Need for Office

The purpose of this appendix is to introduce you to XML Schema Definitions (XSD). Microsoft uses XSD, or subsets of XSD, throughout the Office suite. While XSD is a subject worthy of a book or several of its own, and many people prefer to work with it only through tools, there is a core set of XSD features that will let you describe and define XML vocabularies as well as understand how Office interprets XML information.