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

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.

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.

PetroXML is a set of XML schemas developed by Transzap, Inc. This is the oil industry's first set of XML schemas specifically designed to empower industry participants in end-to-end automation of oil field operations. The new set of schemas represent a starting point for the building of a business-to-business e-commerce community that spans many oil companies and their vendors.

The Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) is an XML language for the description of Web Services compositions as part of a business process definition.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) is the new open standard for exchanging real estate transaction information. Consisting of a transaction specification and a standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Type Definition (DTD), RETS is being implemented by many real estate industry leaders in their next generation of real estate information systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

RIXML.org, a consortium of buy- and sell-side firms, is committed to the development of the first open standard for investment and financial research. The mission of RIXML is to define an open standard to improve the process of categorizing, aggregating, comparing, sorting, and distributing global financial research.

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 Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML encoding for the transport and storage of geographic information, including both the geometry and properties of geographic features. This specification defines the mechanisms and syntax that GML uses to encode geographic information in XML. It is anticipated that GML will make a significant impact on the ability of organizations to share geographic information with one another, and to enable linked geographic datasets.

JDF is a comprehensive XML-based file format/proposed industry standard for end-to-end job ticket specifications combined with a message description standard and message interchange protocol. Job Definition Format supplies a means for printing businesses to streamline the process of producing printed material.

Chemical Markup Language (CML) development site

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.

Cover Pages analysis of XAML

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.

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/.