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"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."

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 Java Speech Grammar Format (JSGF) defines a platform-independent, vendor-independent way of describing one type of grammar, a rule grammar (also known as a command and control grammar or regular grammar). It uses a textual representation that is readable and editable by both developers and computers, and can be included in Java source code.

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.

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.

XsdDoc 1.0 is a documentation tool that automatically generates detailed reports from XML Schema definitions. XsdDoc transforms plain XML files into cross-referenced and hyperlinked HTML documents for easy website publication and collaboration among developers.

Home site of the ebXML standard. ebXML is sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS. The ebXML mission is to provide an open XML-based infrastructure enabling the global use of electronic business information in an interoperable, secure and consistent manner by all parties.

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.

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

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

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.

Central resource site for the WebDAV community. WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

Value Chain Markup Language - VCML is an agreed-to business vocabulary that takes a vocabulary-based approach to B2B collaboration. VCML packages provide industry-specific schemas, guides and resources to implementing VCML.Currently, VCML packages provide complete support for: Aerospace, Automotive, Banking & Finance, Education, Energy, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Petrochemical, Retail, Telecommunications, and Transportation.

TranXML, a new extensible markup language (XML) solution, is being proposed as the new industry standard for e-commerce related activities between shippers and carriers. It was created specifically for the procurement and delivery of transportation and logistics services required for supply chain execution. This groundbreaking work to introduce TranXML to the market was accomplished by Transentric, based on the X.12 and XMLSolutions meta data repository. Transentric 's goal for TranXML is to remove barriers and to dramatically increase the use of e-Commerce as it relates to transportation and logistics services.

Chemical Markup Language (CML) development site

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.

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.

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.

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

Cover Pages analysis of XAML