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In 1997, PureEdge released ICS and in 1998, published XFDL (Extensible Forms Description Language), the first XML protocol for enforceable documents on the Internet. Co-authored by PureEdge and Tim Bray, XFDL was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the first to be acknowledged by the W3C for enforceable XML documents. Since its submission, XFDL has played an important role in the W3C's ongoing work on secure XML and XHTML.

XMSG is a specification for using XML to send messages that contain a set of XML documents, embedded non-XML data, and references to non-XML documents in a fashion that supports scalable transactions and operates on a participant model.

The XML Résumé Library is an XML and XSL based system for marking up, adding metadata to, and formatting résumés and curricula vitae.

Market Data Definition Language (MDDL) is an XML-based interchange format and common data dictionary on the fields needed to describe 1) financial instruments, 2) corporate events affecting value and tradability and 3) market-related, economic and industrial indicators. The principal function of MDDL is to allow entities to exchange market data by standardizing formats and definitions.

PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) is an extensible XML metadata standard for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content from magazines, news, catalogs, books and mainstream journals.

NITF uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of news articles. Because metadata is applied throughout the news content, NITF documents are far more searchable and useful than HTML pages. NITF was developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council, an independent international association of the world's leading news agencies and publishers. It is a standard that is open, public, proven, well-used, well-documented, and well-supported.

QuizXML is a revolutionary new search engine for the Semantic Web that searches content written in eXtensible Markup Language (XML). One of the biggest benefits of QuizXML is its ability to improve the accuracy of searches. Intelligent exploitation of the meta-information provided in XML documents can dramatically reduce the number of irrelevant 'hits' returned compared with current HTML-based search engines.

"The VoiceXML Forum is an industry organization founded by AT&T, IBM, Lucent and Motorola, and chartered with establishing and promoting the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML), a new specification essential to making Internet content and information accessible via voice and phone."

MathML is a low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for machine to machine communication. It provides a much needed foundation for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages.

You guessed it. An XML schema for recipes, RecipeML. Definition, downloads and examples.

BSML is an extensible language specification and container for bioinformatic data. It is designed to allow the sharing of genomic information between research organisations. The BSML format can capture the richness of genomic research data in documents that preserve the biological meaning and relationships of the content.

Open Financial Exchange is a specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between financial institutions, business and consumers via the Internet. Open Financial Exchange supports a wide range of financial activities including consumer and small business banking, consumer and small business bill payment, bill presentment, and investments tracking, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and 401(k) account details.

The Channel Definition Format is an open specification that permits a web publisher to offer frequently updated collections of information, or channels, from any web server for automatic delivery to compatible receiver programs on PCs or other information appliances.

Guideline XML (gXML) is an open specification designed to facilitate the exchange of e-commerce guidelines using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Guidelines are used to define business documents such as purchase orders, catalog requests and invoices.

An industry initiative to create a standard for information interchange and a common vocabulary for to grain- and oilseed-related business processes.

Sponsored by Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Openwave, Starfish Software and Symbian, and supported by hundreds of leading wireless companies, SyncML is the leading open industry standard for universal synchronization of remote data and personal information across multiple networks, platforms and devices. Based on XML, SyncML is an future-proof open standard.

Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)provides an exchange model for clinical documents (such as discharge summaries and progress notes). CDA makes documents both machine-readable—so they are easily parsed and processed electronically—and human-readable—so they can be easily retrieved and used by the people who need them. CDA documents can be displayed using XML-aware Web browsers.

The Learning Material Markup Language Framework is a flexibly adaptable and extensible family of XML markup languages for learning and teaching material (teachware). LMML provides sub-languages for various educational fields. LMML is used in universitary education, further education as well as company training.

The Astronomical Instrument Markup Language (AIML) is a domain-specific implementation of the more generalized Instrument Markup Language (IML). Both AIML and IML are vocabularies based on the W3C standard, the Extensible Markup Language (XML). NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Century Computing, a division of AppNet, Inc., are developing AIML to command and control astronomical instruments. Our software architecture combines the platform-independent processing capabilities of Java with the power of XML. A key aspect of the object-oriented architecture, implemented in Java, involves software that is driven by the AIML instrument description. The initial effort is targeted at the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne observatory aboard a Boeing 747. Eventually our techniques will enable trusted astronomers from around the world to easily access infrared instruments (e.g., telescopes, cameras, and spectrometers) located in a variety of remote, inhospitable environments.

"The XML Common Business Library (xCBL) is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of robust, reusable, XML documents to facilitate global trading. It essentially serves as the "mother code," providing one language that all participants in eCommerce can understand. This interoperability allows businesses everywhere to easily exchange documents across multiple e-marketplaces, giving global access to buyers, suppliers, and providers of business services."

OASIS home page for the Universal Business Language project. UBL aims to provide a standard library of XML business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc) by modifying an already existing library of XML schemas to incorporate the best features of other existing XML business libraries. UBL is intended to become an international standard for electronic commerce freely available to everyone without licensing or other fees.

STPml.org is a site to promote the use of XML-based STPml message sepecifications within the financial industry. STPML is the Straight Through Processing Markup Language. It is an XML message specification designed for the financial securities trading industry to meet the requirements of straight through processing.

BannerML stands for Banner Mark-up Language. BannerML is a new XML-based language, proposed by Cogitum LC, for attaching additional text information to Internet banners. This language would mesh perfectly with Cogitum’s Image Co-Tracker, a personal software product for clipping and storing banners on the user’s computer.

Validating XML SOAP request and response documents against XSD schemas leads to greater Web service security with only a modest effect on client performance. Microsoft's Xsd.exe is a versatile tool for generating XML schema from sample XML files. Apply this article's Heimlich maneuvers when Xsd.exe chokes on large, complex XML SOAP response documents. Test-drive the ASP.NET version of the article's downloadable Visual Basic .NET Windows form project at http://www.oakleaf.ws/xsdgen/.

The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions.