Welcome to the Microsoft Office Visio 2007 XML Schema Reference

Visio XML Reference

Welcome to the Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 XML Schema Reference. This reference contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on the Visio XML Schema Reference.

Publish date of this reference: October 2006 (version 2007)

This documentation contains the following information:

  • DatadiagramML schema

    A full view of the DatadiagramML schema structure. You can click any element to go directly to its reference topic.

  • A DatadiagramML overview

    An overview of DatadiagramML that includes information about the DatadiagramML schema, inheritance, working with sheets and formulas, working with geometry, working with text, loading XML files created outside of Visio, round-tripping XML data, embedding custom XML data, units of measure, and errors and warning messages.

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    In previously published materials, including the Microsoft Office Visio 2003 SDK, the XML schema that is explained in this document was referred to as "XML for Visio." From now on, the schema is called DatadiagramML.
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    The examples in the overview topics for this reference show values for attributes in single quotation marks (') because Visio writes out this data by using single quotation marks. You can, however, enter attribute values in DatadiagramML files by using either double or single quotation marks. The examples provided in the reference topics show values for attributes in double quotation marks (").
  • DatadiagramML element reference

    Reference topics that provide details on all of the elements in the DatadiagramML schema. Each topic includes information on syntax, default units for elements that represent cells, attributes, and parent and child elements.

  • A list of New Elements in DatadiagramML in Microsoft Office Visio 2007

This documentation is accessible from the following locations:

  • From the Microsoft Download Center.   To download the latest version of the XML Schema Reference for offline viewing, visit the Microsoft Download Center.
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This navigation page contains links to the following sections:

  • Concepts. Provides important concepts for developing custom Visio solutions.
  • Elements. Provides reference materials for the Visio XML elements.

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