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XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...

markup languages A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts. Markup can control the display of a document or enrich its content to facilitate automated p ...

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* AdsML Markup language used for interchange of data between advertising systems. *

aecXML {{lowercase, title=aecXML aecXML (architecture, engineering and construction extensible markup language) is a specific XML markup language which uses Industry Foundation Classes to create a vendor-neutral means to access data generated by building i ...

: a mark-up language which uses

Industry Foundation Classes The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is a CAD data exchange data schema intended for description of architectural, building and construction industry data (ABCII). The IFC file format is based on ISO 10303-21 standard and definitions of ABCII are ...

to create a vendor-neutral means to access data generated by

Building Information Modeling Building information modeling (BIM) is an approach involving the generation and management of digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of buildings or other physical assets and facilities. BIM is supported by vario ...

. * AFrame: a mark-up language to create 3D graphics on web pages

. * AgcXML *

Agricultural Ontology Service Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) is a web site managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for accessing and discussing agricultural information management st ...

* AIML Markup language used for creating artificial intelligence chatterbots. * AnIML Markup language used for data created by scientific analytical instruments. * ARXML

Autosar AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a global development partnership founded in 2003 by automotive manufacturers, suppliers and other companies from the electronics, semiconductor and software industries. Its purpose is to develop ...

specification description XML *

Atom (standard) The name Atom applies to a pair of related Web standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub or APP) is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web re ...

: The Atom ''Syndication Format'' is a language used for

web feeds On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors ''syndicate'' a web feed, thereby allowing users to ''subscribe'' a channel to it by adding the fee ...

* Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML): format for capturing a person's interests and dislikes * Automated Test Markup Language (ATML): defines a standard exchange medium for sharing information between components of automatic test systems. * Attention.xml: used for

RSS RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many ...

and similar online subscription-tracking applications

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BeerXML BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data description standard designed for the exchange of beer brewing recipes and other brewing data. Tables of recipes as well as other records such as hop schedules and malt bills can be represented using ...

: a free XML based data description standard for the exchange of brewing data * Binary Format Description language: an extension of XSIL which has added conditionals and the ability to reference files by their stream numbers, rather than by their public

URL A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identi ...

s * Biological Dynamics Markup Language ( BDML) is an XML format for quantitative data describing biological dynamics. * Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) is an

dialect for defining

business intelligence Business intelligence (BI) consists of strategies, methodologies, and technologies used by enterprises for data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of BI technologies include Financial reporting, reporting, online an ...

(BI) assets. *

Business Process Execution Language The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), commonly known as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), is an OASIS standard executable language for specifying actions within business processes with web services. Processes ...

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business process modeling Business process modeling (BPM) is the action of capturing and representing business processes, processes of an enterprise (i.e. modeling them), so that the current business processes may be analyzed, applied securely and consistently, improved, ...

language that is executable

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Call Control eXtensible Markup Language Call Control eXtensible Markup Language (CCXML) is an XML standard designed to provide asynchronous event-based telephony support to VoiceXML. Its current status is a W3C recommendation, adopted May 10, 2011. Whereas VoiceXML is designed to provid ...

: a standard designed to provide

telephony Telephony ( ) is the field of technology involving the development, application, and deployment of telecommunications services for the purpose of electronic transmission of voice, fax, or data, between distant parties. The history of telephony is ...

support to

VoiceXML VoiceXML (VXML) is a digital document standard for specifying interactive media and voice dialogs between humans and computers. It is used for developing audio and voice response applications, such as banking systems and automated customer service ...

*CCTRL: a call control XML that allows developers to create telephony services that run on Lignup, Inc.'s software communications platform * CellML: a language describing

mathematical model A mathematical model is an abstract and concrete, abstract description of a concrete system using mathematics, mathematical concepts and language of mathematics, language. The process of developing a mathematical model is termed ''mathematical m ...

s *

Channel Definition Format Channel Definition Format (CDF) was an XML file format formerly used in conjunction with Microsoft's Active Channel, Active Desktop and Smart Offline Favorites technologies. The format was designed to "offer frequently updated collections of inf ...

Chemical Markup Language Chemical Markup Language (ChemML or CML) is an approach to managing molecular information using tools such as XML and Java. It was the first domain specific implementation based strictly on XML, first based on a DTD and later on an XML Schema, t ...

* ClaML : Classification Markup Language for

health informatics Health informatics combines communications, information technology (IT), and health care to enhance patient care and is at the forefront of the medical technological revolution. It can be viewed as a branch of engineering and applied science. ...

, accepted as

European Norm European, or Europeans, may refer to: In general * ''European'', an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe ** Ethnic groups in Europe ** Demographics of Europe ** European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe and other We ...

EN 14463:2007. *

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is a standards developing organization (SDO) dealing with medical research data linked with healthcare,made to enable information system interoperability and to improve medical research a ...

* Clinical Document Architecture * COLLADA: a standard for exchanging

digital assets A digital asset is anything that exists only in digital form and comes with a distinct usage right or distinct permission for use. Data that do not possess those rights are not considered assets. ''Digital assets'' include, but are not limited t ...

among various graphics software applications *

Common Alerting Protocol The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to m ...

(CAP) * CXML: a protocol intended for communication of business documents between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and suppliers *

CityGML CityGML is an open standardised data model and exchange format to store digital 3D city models, 3D models of cities and Digital elevation model, landscapes. It defines ways to describe most of the common 3D features and objects found in cities (su ...

: An open standardised data model and exchange format to store digital 3D models of cities and landscapes.

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Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) specification defines a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented information, as well as a set of mechanisms for combining, extending, and constraining document types. It ...

(DITA): A document format used by publishers * Data center markup language *

Data Format Description Language Data Format Description Language (DFDL, often pronounced ''daff-o-dil'') is a modeling language for describing general text and binary data in a standard way. It was published as an Open Grid Forum Recommendation in February 2021, and in April 202 ...

* Digital Forensics XML * Dimensional Markup Language *

Directory Service Markup Language Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) is a representation of directory service information in an XML syntax. The DSML version 1 effort was announced on July 12, 1999 by creator Bowstreet (subsequently acquired by IBM in 2005). Initiative sup ...

* DisplayML *

DocBook DocBook is a Semantics (computer science), semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of docume ...

: a markup language for technical documentation. *

Document Schema Definition Languages Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) is a framework within which multiple validation tasks of different types can be applied to an XML document in order to achieve more complete validation results than just the application of a single techn ...

Document Structure Description Document Structure Description, or DSD, is a schema language for XML, that is, a language for describing valid XML documents. It's an alternative to DTD or the W3C XML Schema. An example of DSD in its simplest form: This says that element named ...

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schema Schema may refer to: Science and technology * SCHEMA (bioinformatics), an algorithm used in protein engineering * Schema (genetic algorithms), a set of programs or bit strings that have some genotypic similarity * Schema.org, a web markup vocab ...

language for XML

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* EAC: Encoded Archival Context * EAD: Encoded Archival Description *

ebXML Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language, commonly known as e-business XML, or ebXML (pronounced ee-bee-ex-em-el, 'bi,eks,em'el as it is typically referred to, is a family of XML based standards sponsored by OASIS and UN/CEFACT whose ...

: a collection of electronic business specifications *eLML: eLesson Markup Language * EMML Enterprise Mashup Markup Language * Emotion Markup Language * EPPML: Extensible Postal Product Model and Language *

EPUB EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the ".epub" file extension. The term is short for ''electronic publication'' and is sometimes stylized as ''ePUB''. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smart ...

: electronic publication, open e-book format * Extensible Application Markup Language *

Extensible Data Format The Extensible Data Format (XDF) is an XML standard (specified as a DTD) developed by NASA, meant to be used throughout scientific disciplines. In many ways it is akin to XSIL, Extensible Scientific Interchange Language. NASA provides two XDF API ...

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (abbreviation XMPP, originally named Jabber) is an open communication protocol designed for instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance. Based on XML (Extensible Marku ...

Extensible Provisioning Protocol The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) is a flexible protocol designed for allocating objects within registries over the Internet. The motivation for the creation of EPP was to create a robust and flexible protocol that could provide communic ...

* Extensible Resource Identifier *

Extensible Stylesheet Language In computing, the term Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is used to refer to a family of languages used to transform and render XML documents (e.g., XSL is used to determine how to display a XML document as a webpage). Historically, the W3C XS ...

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* Facelets VDL: View declaration language used in the Facelets framework and JavaServer Faces. * FicML: Fiction Markup Language * FictionBook: an

e-book An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Al ...

format * FIXatdl, FIX algorithmic trading definition language. Schema provides a HCI between a human trader, the order entry screen(s), unlimited different algorithmic trading types (called strategies) from a variety of sources, and formats a new order message on the FIX wire. * FIXML, Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol in XML format. FIX is a very widely deployed messaging protocol used between financial traders worldwide. *FleXML: an XML transformation language *

FpML FpML (Financial products Markup Language) is a business information exchange standard based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) that enables business-to-business over-the-counter (OTC) financial derivative transactions online by following W3C s ...

, Financial products Markup Language. Used to describe complex financial products. * FXT: transformation specification for the Functional XML Transformation Tool

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Geography Markup Language The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic ...

: a grammar defined by the

Open Geospatial Consortium The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization that develops and maintains international standards for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web, Internet of Things, Geographi ...

(OGC) to express geographical features * GeoSciML: a GML Application Schema that can be used to transfer information about geology, with an emphasis on the "interpreted geology" that is conventionally portrayed on geologic maps. *

GJXDM The Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM or Global JXDM) is a data reference model for the exchange of information within the justice and public safety communities. The Global JXDM is a product of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative ...

: a data reference model for the exchange of information within the justice and public safety communities * GPX: a language designed for transferring

GPS The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geol ...

data between software applications *

GraphML GraphML is an XML-based file format for graphs. The GraphML file format results from the joint effort of the graph drawing community to define a common format for exchanging graph structure data. It uses an XML-based syntax and supports the enti ...

: a standard exchange format for graphs *

Green Building XML The Green Building XML schema (gbXML) is an open schema developed to facilitate transfer of building data stored in Building Information Models (BIMs) to engineering analysis tools. It enables interoperability between BIM and building performan ...

: also known as "gbXML", a schema to facilitate the transfer of building properties stored in 3D building information models (BIM) to engineering analysis tools, especially energy and building performance analysis *General Station Description Markup Language ( GSDML): used to describe the communication interface of a

Profinet Profinet (usually styled as PROFINET, as a portmanteau for Process Field Network) is an industry technical standard for data communication over Industrial Ethernet, designed for collecting data from, and controlling equipment in Automation#Indus ...

device * GuideML * GXA: an extension of

SOAP Soap is a salt (chemistry), salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. In a domestic setting, soaps, specifically "toilet soaps", are surfactants usually u ...

being worked on by

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

and some other developers * GXL: a standard exchange format for graphs

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* HumanML: for describing contextual (emotional, social, pragmatic) information about instances of human communication

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: specifically the "ifcXML" format, defined by ISO 10303-28 ("STEP-XML"), having file extension ".ifcXML". This format is suitable for interoperability with XML tools and exchanging partial building models. * Information and Content Exchange *IO Device Description ( IODD): contains information about the device's identity, parameters, process data, diagnosis data and

IO-Link IO-Link is a short distance, bi-directional, digital, point-to-point, wired (or wireless), industrial communications networking standard (IEC 61131-9) used for connecting digital sensors and actuators to either a type of industrial fieldbus or a i ...

communication properties.

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JATS The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in ...

: a vocabulary used for the preparation and publication of scholarly articles. * Java Speech Markup Language: a language for annotating text input to

speech synthesizer Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or Computer hardware, hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system conv ...

s. *

Job Definition Format JDF (Job Definition Format) is a technical standard developed by the graphic arts industry to facilitate cross-vendor workflow implementations of the application domain. It is an XML format about job ticket, message description, and message interc ...

: a standard developed by the graphic arts industry to facilitate cross-vendor workflow implementations *

Job Submission Description Language Job Submission Description Language is an extensible XML specification from the Global Grid Forum for the description of simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems. Currently at version 1.0 (released November 7, 2005), the specificat ...

: describes simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems

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Keyhole Markup Language Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers. KML was developed for use with Google Earth, which was originally named Key ...

: geographic annotation

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* Link contract * LOGML: Log Markup Language, for describing the log reports of web servers

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* MARCXML: a schema developed by the

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

to enable the sharing and accessing of bibliographic information *

MathML Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a pair of mathematical markup languages, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. Its aim is to natively integrate mathematical formulae ...

: a language describing mathematical notation *Medical Reality Markup Language (MRML) *

Metadata Object Description Schema The Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) is an XML-based bibliographic description schema developed by the United States Library of Congress' Network Development and Standards Office. MODS was designed as a compromise between the complexit ...

: an XML schema with bibliographic elements used for a variety of library applications *

Metalink Metalink is an extensible metadata file format that describes one or more computer files available for download. It specifies files appropriate for a user's language and operating system; facilitates file verification and recovery from data ...

: metadata file format to describe one or more computer files available for download. *

Microformats Microformats (μF) are predefined HTML markup (like HTML classes) created to serve as descriptive and consistent metadata about HTML element, elements, designating them as representing a certain type of data (such as address book, contact info ...

: a piece mark up that allows expression of

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

in an

HTML Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...

(or

XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. While HTML, pr ...

) web page * MOWL: semantic interactions with multimedia content * Music Encoding Initiative (MEI): an XML-based language for digital representations of music notation documents. * Music Markup Language * MusicXML: an XML-based music notation file format. *

MXML MXML is an XML-based user interface markup language first introduced by Macromedia in March 2004. Application developers use MXML in combination with ActionScript to develop rich web applications, with products such as Apache Flex. Adobe Syst ...

: a language used to declaratively lay-out the interface of applications, and also to implement complex business logic and rich internet application behaviors

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Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language {{Onesource, date=March 2009 Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language (NVDL) is an XML schema language for validating XML documents that integrate with multiple namespaces. It is an ISO/IEC standard, and it is Part 4 of the DSDL schema spe ...

National Information Exchange Model NIEMOpen (), frequently referred to as NIEM, originated as an XML-based information exchange framework from the United States, but has transitioned to an OASIS Open Project. This initiative formalizes NIEM's designation as an official standard i ...

* Nested Context Language * NewsML: provides a media-independent, structural framework for multi-media news (Superseded by NewsML-G2) * NewsML-G2: an XML multimedia news exchange format standard of the IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council * NeXML: an XML representation of the NeXus data format * NeuroML: computational neuroscience models

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* ODD: A 'One Document Does-it-all' TEI format for simultaneously recording project documentation and meta-schema definition from which you can generate

RELAX NG In computing, RELAX NG (REgular LAnguage for XML Next Generation) is a schema language for XML—a RELAX NG schema specifies a pattern for the structure and content of an XML document. A RELAX NG schema is itself an XML document but RELAX NG also ...

W3C XML Schema XSD (XML Schema Definition), a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), specifies how to formally describe the elements in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document. It can be used by programmers to verify each piece of item cont ...

, and DTDs as well as formatted documentation. * ODRL: an XML-based standard Rights Expression Language (REL) used in

digital rights management Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM ...

systems *

Office Open XML Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version ...

: is a Microsoft file format specification for the storage of electronic documents * OFX: Open Financial Exchange is a unified specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between financial institutions, businesses and consumers via the Internet. *

OIOXML OIOXML is a project by the Danish government to develop a number of reusable data components serializable in various formats, although currently the only method of serialization for OIOXML data is in the XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is ...

: an XML-markup language created by the Danish government to ease communication from, to and between Danish governmental instances * Open Mathematical Documents (OMDoc), based on OpenMath and MathML, but with a greater coverage. * OML: an XML format for outlines, based on OPML. *

Open eBook Open eBook (OEB), or formally, the Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS), is a legacy e-book format which has been superseded by the EPUB format. It was "based primarily on technology developed by SoftBook Press" and on XML. OEB was released wi ...

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format defined by ''Open eBook Publication Structure Specification''; superseded by ePub. * Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS), an XML-markup schema that defines tags for marking up Bibles, theological commentaries, and other related literature. *

OpenDocument The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, standardized as ISO 26300, is an open file format for word processor, word processing documents, spreadsheets, Presentation program, presentations and ...

(ODF): a document file format used for describing electronic documents *

OpenMath OpenMath is the name of a markup language for specifying the meaning of mathematical formulae. Among other things, it can be used to complement MathML, a standard which mainly focuses on the presentation of formulae, with information about their sem ...

– a markup language for mathematical formulae which can complement

. * OPML: an XML format for outlines

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* phyloXML – XML for phylogenetic and phylogenomic applications * PMML – XML for

predictive analytics Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of Statistics, statistical techniques from data mining, Predictive modelling, predictive modeling, and machine learning that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future or other ...

and data mining * PNML – Petri Net Markup Language *

PreTeXt A pretext (: ''pretextual'') is an excuse to do something or say something that is not accurate. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication. Pretexts have been used to conceal the true purpose or r ...

– An authoring and publishing system for authors of textbooks, research articles, and monographs, especially in mathematics and other STEM disciplines. * PDBML – XML for Protein Data Bank

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* QuakeML – Quake Markup Language, an extensible and modular XML representation of seismological data

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RailML railML (Railway Markup Language) is a proprietary freeware XML Schema-based data exchange format for data interoperability of railway applications. Motivation The growing number of computer applications modeling different aspects of railway ope ...

: language for interoperability in railway industry applications. *

RDFa RDFa or Resource Description Framework in Attributes is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based document types for embedding rich metadata within web documents. The Resource Descript ...

* RecipeML *

Regular Language description for XML REgular LAnguage description for XML (RELAX) is a specification for describing XML-based languages. A description written in RELAX is called a RELAX grammar. ''RELAX Core'' has been approved as an ISO/ IEC Technical Report 22250–1 in 2002 (ISO/IE ...

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language * Remote Telescope Markup Language *

Resource Description Framework The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data. It was originally designed as a data model for metadata by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It provides a variety of syntax notations and formats, of whi ...

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metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , . Models can be divided in ...

based upon the idea of making statements about web resources * RoadXML: file format for driving simulator database. *

RSS (file format) RSS (Resource Description Framework, RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow ...

* RSS enclosure *

RuleML RuleML is a global initiative, led by a non-profit organization RuleML Inc., that is devoted to advancing research and industry standards design activities in the technical area of rules that are semantic and highly inter-operable. The standards ...

: a markup language for rules

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* S1000D: “International specification for technical publications using a common source database”, is an international specification for the production of technical publications. * S5 file format: slideshow data *

SAML Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML, pronounced ''SAM-el'', ) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider (SAML), identity provider and a service provid ...

: authentication and authorization data *

SBML The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is a representation format, based on XML, for communicating and storing computational models of biological processes. It is a free and open standard with widespread software support and a community of us ...

: models of biological processes * SBGN: graphical representation of cellular processes and biological networks *

Schematron Schematron is a rule-based validation language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in XML trees. It is a structural schema language expressed in XML using a small number of elements and XPath languages. In many implem ...

: an XML structure validation language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in trees *

SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based electronic educational technology (also called e-learning). It defines communications between client side content and a host system (call ...

: XML for web-based e-learning *

SCXML SCXML stands for State Chart XML: State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. It is an XML-based markup language that provides a generic state-machine-based execution environment based on Harel statecharts. SCXML is able to describe compl ...

: provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on Harel statecharts * Simple Sharing Extensions * SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language describes

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

presentations *

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protocol Protocol may refer to: Sociology and politics * Protocol (politics) Protocol originally (in Late Middle English, c. 15th century) meant the minutes or logbook taken at a meeting, upon which an agreement was based. The term now commonly refers to ...

for exchanging XML-based messages over

computer network A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. In order to communicate, the computers and devices must be connected by wired media like copper cables, optical fibers, or b ...

s *

SOAP with Attachments SOAP with Attachments (SwA) or MIME for Web Services is the use of web services to send and receive files with a combination of SOAP (protocol), SOAP and MIME, primarily over HTTP. Note that SwA is not a new specification, but rather a mechanism fo ...

: the method of using

Web Services A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

to send and receive files using a combination of

and

MIME A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek language, Greek , , "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses ''mime'' (also called ''pantomime'' outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a the ...

, primarily over

HTTP HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, wher ...

. * Speech Application Language Tags *

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is an XML-based markup language for speech synthesis applications. It is a recommendation of the W3C's Voice Browser Working Group. SSML is often embedded in VoiceXML scripts to drive interactive telephony sy ...

: a language for speech synthesis applications *

SPML Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) is an XML-based framework, being developed by OASIS, for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information between cooperating organizations. The Service Provisioning Markup language is the ...

: user, resource and service provisioning information *Strategy Markup Language (StratML): an XML vocabulary and schema for strategic and performance plans and reports * Streaming Transformations for XML: a

XML transformation language An XML transformation language is a programming language designed specifically to transform an ''input'' XML document into an ''output'' document which satisfies some specific goal. There are two special cases of transformation: * XML to XML: ...

intended as a high-speed, low memory consumption alternative to

XSLT XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text, or XSL Formatting Objects. These formats c ...

. * SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics * SXBL: defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in SVG

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Text Encoding Initiative The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and ma ...

– guidelines for text encoding, with schemas and a mechanism to customise to individual project needs. * ThML – Theological Markup Language created by Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), to create electronic theological texts. * Topicmaps * TransducerML –

language for describing sensors and their output * Translation Memory eXchange (TMX): translation memory data * TREX: a simple schema language

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* Unified XUL Platform: a 2017

fork In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to h ...

of XUL. *

UIML UIML (User Interface Markup Language) is an XML-based markup language used to define user interfaces on computers. The primary purpose of UIML is to streamline the process of developing user interfaces, enabling programmers to describe their inter ...

: User Interface Markup Language *

Universal Business Language Universal Business Language (UBL), ISO/IEC 19845, is an open library of standard electronic business documents and information models for supply chain, procurement, and Transport, transportation such as purchase orders, invoices, Transportation, tr ...

: an open library of standard electronic XML business documents developed by

OASIS (organization) The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS; ) is an Trade association, industry consortium that develops Technical standard, technical standards for information technology. History OASIS was founded under ...

Universal Description Discovery and Integration Web Services Discovery provides access to software systems over the Internet using standard protocols. In the most basic scenario there is a ''Web Service Provider'' that publishes a service and a ''Web Service Consumer'' that uses this service. ...

: a registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...

V

* Vector Markup Language: used to produce

vector graphics Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons. The associated mechanisms may include vector displ ...

, implemented in

Microsoft Office Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suite, announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at CO ...

2000 and higher *

: format for specifying interactive voice dialogues between a human and a computer

W

* W3C MMI * WDDX: Web Distributed Data eXchange *

WaterML WaterML is a technical standard and information model used to represent hydrological time series structures. The current version is WaterML 2.0, released an open standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). History WaterML 1.0 Version 1.0 o ...

: standard information model for the representation of water observations data, with the intent of allowing the exchange of such data sets across information systems. *

Web feed On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors ''syndicate'' a web feed, thereby allowing users to ''subscribe'' a channel to it by adding the fee ...

Web Ontology Language The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of Knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge representation languages for authoring Ontology (information science), ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe Taxonomy, taxonomies and ...

: a language for defining and instantiating Web

ontologies In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, or entities that pertain to one, many, or all domains of discourse. More ...

(a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts) *

Web Services Description Language The Web Services Description Language (WSDL ) is an XML-based interface description language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service. The acronym is also used for any specific WSDL description of a web service (also ...

: an XML-based language that provides a model for describing

Web service A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

s * Web Services Dynamic Discovery: a technical specification that defines a multicast discovery protocol to locate services on a local network. * Wellsite information transfer standard markup language * WML Wireless Markup Language * WiX: Windows installers data * WordprocessingML: a file format specification for the storage of electronic documents *

WS-Policy WS-Policy is a specification that allows web services to use XML to advertise their policies (on security, quality of service, etc.) and for web service consumers to specify their policy requirements. WS-Policy is a W3C recommendation as of Septemb ...

X

* X3D: Extensible 3D (X3D) is an international standard for real-time

3D computer graphics 3D computer graphics, sometimes called Computer-generated imagery, CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional Computer-generated imagery, computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian coor ...

, the successor to Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) *

XAML Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML ) is a declarative XML-based language developed by Microsoft for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. XAML is used extensively i ...

: is a declarative XML-based language that Microsoft developed for initializing structured values and objects. *

XACML __NOTOC__ The eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) is an XML-based standard markup language for specifying access control policies. The standard, published by OASIS (organization), OASIS, defines a declarative fine-grained, attribute ...

: eXtensible

Access Control In physical security and information security, access control (AC) is the action of deciding whether a subject should be granted or denied access to an object (for example, a place or a resource). The act of ''accessing'' may mean consuming ...

Markup Language * XBEL : the XML

Bookmark A bookmark is a thin marking tool, commonly made of card, leather, or fabric, used to keep track of a reader's progress in a book and allow the reader to easily return to where the previous reading session ended. Alternate materials for book ...

Exchange Language. * XBL: used to declare the behavior and look of ' XUL'-widgets and XML elements *

XBRL XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a freely available global framework for exchanging business information. XBRL allows the expression of semantics commonly required in business reporting. The standard was originally based on X ...

: an open data standard for financial reporting. * xCBL: a collection of XML specifications for use in e-business. * xCal: the XML-compliant representation of the

iCalendar The Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) is a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, ...

standard * XCES: an XML based standard to codify

text corpus In linguistics and natural language processing, a corpus (: corpora) or text corpus is a dataset, consisting of natively digital and older, digitalized, language resources, either annotated or unannotated. Annotated, they have been used in corp ...

* XDI: sharing, linking, and synchronizing data using machine-readable structured documents that use an RDF vocabulary based on XRI structured identifiers * XDuce: an

XDXF XDXF (XML Dictionary eXchange Format) is a project to unite all existing open Dictionary, dictionaries and provide both users and developers with a universal XML-based File format, format, convertible from and to other popular formats like Mova, P ...

: for monolingual and bilingual dictionaries * XFA: enhance the processing of web forms *

XForms XForms is an XML format used for collecting inputs from web forms. XForms was designed to be the next generation of HTML / XHTML forms, but is generic enough that it can also be used in a standalone manner or with presentation languages other tha ...

: a format for the specification of a data processing model for XML data and

user interface In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fro ...

(s) for the XML data, such as

web forms ASP.NET is a server-side scripting, server-side web-application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web application, applications a ...

: a

markup language A markup language is a Encoding, text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts. Markup can control the display of a document or enrich its content to facilitate au ...

that has the same depth of expression as

, but with a syntax conforming to

XHTML Basic XHTML Basic is an XML-based structured markup language primarily designed for simple (mainly ''handheld'') user agents, often found in mobile devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and set-top boxes.. XHTML Basic is a subset of XHTML 1.1 ...

* XHTML Friends Network *

XHTML Modularization XHTML modularization is a methodology for producing modularized markup languages in a number of different schema languages (currently DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG) so that the modules can easily be plugged together to create markup languages. Alt ...

* XidML: an open standard used within the flight test instrumentation industry that describes instrumentation and how data is acquired, stored, transmitted and processed * XInclude: a processing model and syntax for general purpose XML inclusion *

XLIFF XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) is an XML-based bitext format created to standardize the way localizable data are passed between and among tools during a localization process and a common format for CAT tool exchange. The XLIFF ...

: XML Localization Interchange File Format, a format created to standardize localization. *

XLink XML Linking Language, or XLink, is an XML markup language and W3C specification that provides methods for creating internal and external links within XML documents, and associating metadata with those links. The XLink specification XLink 1.1 is ...

: a language used for creating

hyperlinks In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a digital reference providing direct access to data by a user's clicking or tapping. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with ...

in XML documents * XMI: an OMG standard for exchanging metadata information via XML. The most common use of XMI is as an interchange format for UML models *

XML Encryption XML Encryption (XML-Enc) is a specification governed by a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation, that defines how to encrypt the contents of an XML element. Specification Although XML Encryption can be used to encrypt any kind of data, it ...

: a specification that defines how to encrypt the content of an XML element * XML Information Set: describing an abstract data model of an XML document in terms of a set of information items *

XML Interface for Network Services XML Interface for Network Services (XINS) is an open-source technology for definition and implementation of internet applications, which enforces a specification-oriented approach. Specification-oriented approach The specification-oriented appro ...

: definition and implementation of internet applications, enforcing a specification-oriented approach. * XML Resource: provide a platform independent way of describing windows in a GUI *

XML Schema An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself. These constrai ...

: a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntax constraints imposed by XML itself * XML Script: an

, or a Microsoft technology preview for scripting web browsers *

XML Signature XML Signature (also called ''XMLDSig'', ''XML-DSig'', ''XML-Sig'') defines an XML syntax for digital signatures and is defined in the W3C recommendationbr>XML Signature Syntax and Processing Functionally, it has much in common with PKCS #7 but is ...

: an XML syntax for digital signatures *

XML for Analysis XML for Analysis (XMLA) is an industry standard for data access in analytical systems, such as online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining. XMLA is based on other industry standards such as XML, SOAP and HTTP. XMLA is maintained by XMLA Coun ...

: data access in analytical systems, such as

OLAP In computing, online analytical processing (OLAP) (), is an approach to quickly answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries. The term ''OLAP'' was created as a slight modification of the traditional database term online transaction processi ...

and

Data Mining Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and ...

* XML pipeline: a language expressing how XML transformations are connected together *

XML-RPC XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.Simon St. Laurent, Joe Johnston, Edd Dumbill. (June 2001) ''Programming Web Services with XML-RPC.'' O'Reilly. First Edition. ...

: a

remote procedure call In distributed computing, a remote procedure call (RPC) is when a computer program causes a procedure (subroutine) to execute in a different address space (commonly on another computer on a shared computer network), which is written as if it were a ...

protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and

as a transport mechanism *XMLTerm: A Mozilla-based Semantic User Interface * XMLTV: a format to represent TV listings. *XOMGL: obtain large amounts of data from municipal government agencies. * XOXO: an XML

microformat Microformats (μF) are predefined HTML markup (like HTML classes) created to serve as descriptive and consistent metadata about elements, designating them as representing a certain type of data (such as contact information, geographic coor ...

for publishing outlines, lists, and blogrolls on the Web *

XPDL The XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) is a format standardized by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) to interchange business process definitions between different workflow products, i.e. between different modeling tools and management s ...

: interchange

Business Process A business process, business method, or business function is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks performed by people or equipment in which a specific sequence produces a service or product (that serves a particular business g ...

definitions between different

workflow Workflow is a generic term for orchestrated and repeatable patterns of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. It can be depicted as a seque ...

products *

XPath XPath (XML Path Language) is an expression language designed to support the query or transformation of XML documents. It was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1999, and can be used to compute values (e.g., strings, numbers, or ...

(or XPath 1.0): an expression language for addressing portions of an XML document * XPath 2.0: a language for addressing portions of XML documents, successor of XPath 1.0 *

XPointer XPointer is a system for addressing components of XML-based Internet media. It is divided among four specifications: a " framework" that forms the basis for identifying XML fragments, a positional element addressing scheme, a scheme for namespace ...

: a system for addressing components of XML based internet media *

XProc XProc is an XML transformation language for processing documents in pipelines: chaining conversions and other steps together to achieve the desired results. It can handle documents in XML, HTML, JSON, text and binary. The current (stable) versi ...

: a W3C standard language to describe XML Pipeline *

XQuery XQuery (XML Query) is a query language and functional programming language designed to query and transform collections of structured and unstructured data, primarily in the form of XML. It also supports text data and, through implementation-sp ...

: a

query language A query language, also known as data query language or database query language (DQL), is a computer language used to make queries in databases and information systems. In database systems, query languages rely on strict theory to retrieve informa ...

designed to query collections of XML data (similar to

SQL Structured Query Language (SQL) (pronounced ''S-Q-L''; or alternatively as "sequel") is a domain-specific language used to manage data, especially in a relational database management system (RDBMS). It is particularly useful in handling s ...

) * XrML: the eXtensible Rights Markup Language, or the

Rights Expression Language A Rights Expression Language or REL is a machine-processable language used to express intellectual property rights (such as copyright) and other terms and conditions for use over content. RELs can be used as standalone expressions (i.e. metadata usa ...

(REL) for

MPEG-21 The MPEG-21 standard, from the Moving Picture Experts Group, aims at defining an open framework for multimedia applications. MPEG-21 is ratified in the standards ISO/IEC 21000 - Multimedia framework (MPEG-21). MPEG-21 is based on two essential con ...

* XSIL: an XML-based transport language for scientific data *

XSL Formatting Objects XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is a markup language for XML document formatting that is most often used to generate PDF files. XSL-FO is part of Extensible Stylesheet Language, XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), a set of W3C technologies desig ...

: a markup language for XML document formatting which is most often used to generate

PDF Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Inc., Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, computer hardware, ...

s *

XSL Transformations XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text, or XSL Formatting Objects. These formats ca ...

: a language used for the transformation of XML documents. * XSPF: a

playlist A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player, either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general form, an audio playlist is simply a list of songs that can be played once or in a loop. ...

format for

digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...

* XTCE: describes binary blocks for telemetry and command exchange

XML Telemetric and Command Exchange XTCE (for XML Telemetric and Command Exchange) is an XML based data exchange format for spacecraft telemetry and command meta-data. UsinXTCEthe format and content of a space systems command and telemetry links can be readily exchanged between spa ...

* XUL: a XML

user interface markup language A user interface markup language is a markup language that renders and describes graphical user interfaces and controls. Many of these markup languages are dialects of XML and are dependent upon a pre-existing scripting language engine, usually a ...

developed by the

Mozilla Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting free software and open standards. The community is supported institution ...

project. *

XUpdate XUpdate is a lightweight XML query language for modifying XML data. After some early enthusiastic development by a small team, the development of the standard faltered around the end of 2000 and it has never found widespread adoption. However, it ha ...

: a lightweight

for modifying XML data

References

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