Web Services Directory

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.

FpML (Financial products Markup Language) is a new protocol to enable e-commerce activities in the field of financial derivatives. The FpML.org web site serves as the focal point for all aspects of the FpML standard development effort, including a repository for all specification documents.

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

A US Government initiative to facilitate the efficient and effective use of XML through cooperative efforts among government agencies, including partnerships with commercial and industrial organizations. Applies to the US Government only.

XML/X has a name, a domain and an intention to enable clients to deliver accounts and payment instructions to servers. However, XML/X is currently in an early stage and like so many XML schema may (or may not) see the light of day in the some distant future.

Cover Pages analysis of XAML

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

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.

Recordare has developed MusicXML technology to create an Internet-friendly method of publishing musical scores, enabling musicians and music fans to get more out of their online music. MusicXML is a universal translator for common Western musical notation from the 17th century onwards. It is designed as an interchange format for notation, analysis, retrieval, and performance applications.

Home site of eXtensible Business Reporting Language, formerly XFRML, is an open specification which uses XML-based data tags to describe financial statements for both public and private companies.

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

FinXML is an XML based framework developed to support a single universal standard for data interchange within the Capital Markets. FinXML acts as a common standard for cross application information exchange, allowing a financial institution or other organization to communicate the details of highly structured financial transactions in electronic form. As such, FinXML can be used as the basis for straight through processing (STP) and risk management within a financial institution as well as conducting e-commerce over the Internet. The availability of FinXML opens up a range of possibilities for the Capital Markets.

The Open Healthcare Group is an organization devoted to the promotion and distribution of an open source health record, XChart. Using the latest XML Internet technology, xchart is designed to automate and streamline the practice of medicine.

The goal of the Rule Markup Initiative is to develop RuleML as the canonical Web language for rules using XML markup, formal semantics, and efficient implementations. RuleML can thus specify queries and inferences in Web ontologies, mappings between Web ontologies, and dynamic Web behaviors of workflows, services, and agents.

Lightweight XML DTD and XSL Style-Sheets for the structuring of Resumés and Job Listings. The purpose of this project is to implement a simple but well structured and balanced standard data exchange format between job seekers, employers, recruiters, and listing services.

Chemical Markup Language (CML) development site

GEML, an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based tag set, was developed by Rosetta Inpharmatics and others in the GEML community to provide a standard method of exchanging gene expression data along with the associated gene and experiment annotation. The GEML community consists of a group of organizations dedicated to guiding the future development of GEML and integrating support for this format into their products and services

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.

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

The XML Bookmark Exchange Language, or XBEL, is an Internet "bookmarks" interchange format. It was originally developed to demonstrate the capabilities of the Python XML development software. XBEL is a useful language for describing bookmark data for a range of browsers, including the major browsers and a number of less widely used browsers.

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.

To help Internet merchants process a broad range of Web-based payment types (including credit and debit cards, Level II & III purchase cards, electronic checks, and Automated Clearinghouse payments) for B2B and B2C e-commerce, VeriSign, Ariba, and other vendors have created the XMLPay specification for sending payment requests and responses through financial networks. XML simplifies client-side processing in payment service applications, allowing applications to be easily linked to larger XML workflow environments.

esohXML.org is an on-line community with the purpose of helping environmental, safety, and occupational health (ESOH) professionals develop Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) technologies to leverage the vast information and data resources in this market.

XrML - eXtensible rights Markup Language - is the Digital Rights Language of choice. XrML provides a universal method for securely specifying and managing rights and conditions associated with all kinds of resources including digital content as well as services.

ISO standards for electronic messages exchanged between securities industry players.