http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33258
--- Comment #5 from Nikolay Sivov bunglehead@gmail.com 2013-03-22 13:14:01 CDT --- (In reply to comment #4)
For reference, when I install office or visio on a clean prefix, I use winecfg to set msxml2, msxml6, and riched20 to native,builtin.
It makes sense to do that for riched20 since Office installs its own version of it, but doing so for msxml is useless - you need to actually install it.
I don't use winetricks for anything, because it always breaks.
Sure it can break something, or could itself get broken, but always it's not a right word for it. You just need to take on step at a time and install what you actually need to install. In case of msxml3/6 it works just fine.