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XUpdate defines a syntax and semantics for a language for updating XML documents. XUpdate is designed to be used independently of any kinf of implementation.

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Access the specification ... WS-AtomicTransaction|Web Services Atomic Transaction
Web Services Atomic Transaction
WS-AtomicTransaction is the definition of the atomic transaction coordination type that is to be used with the extensible coordination framework described in the WS-Coordination specification.

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Access the specification ... XSP|eXtensible Server Pages eXtensible Server Pages
XSP attempts to do for JSP what XML did for HTML - namely, to create a way of building server-side functionality that separates syntax and semantics from content, and allows content and online interactivity to be managed explicitly and abstractly.

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Access the specification ... XDP|XML Data Packaging XML Data Packaging
A XML vocabulary created by Adobe. XDP file store XML form data, XML form templates, and PDF documents as well as other XML information.

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More Information SiXDML|Simple XML Data Manipulation Language Simple XML Data Manipulation Language
SiXDML was designed to create a common syntax and semantics for performing tasks most often required of XML repositories. SiXDML consists of two parts; a data definition and manipulation language inspired by SQL and an application programming interface based on the XML:DB Database API.

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More Information NXD|Native XML Database Native XML Database
A Native XML Database (NXD) database is specialized for storing XML data and stores all components of the XML model intact. Documents go in and documents come out. A NXD may not actually be a standalone database at all. NXDs don't really represent a new low-level database model, and aren't intended to replace existing databases. They're simply a tool intended to assist the developer by providing robust storage and manipulation of XML documents.

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Access the specification ... XMLTV|XML Television XML Television
XMLTV is a set of programs to process TV (tvguide) listings and manage your TV viewing. It stores the listings in an XML-based format and most of the programs are filters which read and/or write XML. There are backends to download TV listings for several countries. It also includes some filter tools to sort, grep, print, and munge listings, and two end-user programs to plan a week's TV viewing.

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More Information JaxMe|JaxMe does not seem to be an acronym|JaxMe 2|JaxMe2 JaxMe does not seem to be an acronym
JaxMe 2 is an open source implementation of JAXB, the specification for Java/XML binding.

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More Information JAXW|Java API for WML
Java API for WML
Java API for working with the Wireless Markup Language. JAXT|Java API for XML Transformations
Java API for XML Transformations
Java API for working with XSLT transformations. JAXH|Java API for XHTML
Java API for XHTML
Java API for XHTML processing. tDOM|TCL Document Object Model TCL Document Object Model
A XML/DOM/XPath package for Tcl written in C.

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More Information XIF|XML Interchange Format
XML Interchange Format
XIF is a format shipped with the SQL Server Meta Data Services. In the meantime it has been replaced by a nameless XML encoding.

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More Information PASWA|Proposed Infoset Addendum to SOAP Messages with Attachments Proposed Infoset Addendum to SOAP Messages with Attachments
PASWA proposes a set of concrete idioms and conventions that build on SOAP Messages with Attachments, yielding the following enhancements: (1) Alignment with the XML Infoset-based data model and the SOAP processing model - opaque data may be correctly processed by intermediaries and may be secured. (2) Backwards-compatible message syntax - every message conforming to this proposal is a legal SwA/1.0 message. (3) Alternate message syntax for SOAP processors that have no knowledge of SwA or this proposal - message content can be faithfully serialized in a form that is understandable by SOAP processors that do not comply with this specification.

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Access the specification ... BAML|Business Associates Markup Language Business Associates Markup Language
BAML can be used to share information about companies or people. As a stand-alone schema, it is used to share company names, addresses, contact information, service lists and so on with stakeholders. Alternatively, it can be embedded in other schemas so that any XML document can choose to embed as much or as little detail about a company as is necessary.

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Access the specification ... bindingTemplate|bindingTempalte is not an Acronym|binding template
bindingTempalte is not an Acronym
Each bindingTemplate structure represents an individual Web service. In contrast with the businessService and businessEntity structures, which are oriented toward auxiliary information about providers and services, a bindingTemplate provides the technical information needed by applications to bind and interact with the Web service being described. It must contain either the access point for a given service or an indirection mechanism that will lead one to the access point.

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Access the specification ... businessService|businessService is not an Acronym|business service
businessService is not an Acronym
Each businessService structure represents a logical grouping of Web Services. At the service level, there is still no technical information provided about those services; rather, this structure allows the ability to assemble a set of services under a common rubric. Each businessService is the logical child of a single businessEntity. Each businessService contains descriptive information -- again, names, descriptions and classification information -- outlining the purpose of the individual Web services found within it. For example, a businessService structure could contain a set of Purchase Order Web services (submission, confirmation and notification) that are provided by a business.

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Access the specification ... businessEntity|busienssEntity is not an acronym|business entity
busienssEntity is not an acronym
One top-level data structure within UDDI is the businessEntity structure, used to represent businesses and providers within UDDI. It contains descriptive information about the business or provider and about the services it offers. This would include information such as names and descriptions in multiple languages, contact information and classification information. Service descriptions and technical information are expressed within a businessEntity by contained businessService and bindingTemplate structures.

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Access the specification ... tModel|technical Model
technical Model
Technical Models are used in UDDI to represent unique concepts or constructs. They provide a structure that allows re-use and, thus, standardization within a software framework. The UDDI information model is based on this notion of shared specifications and uses tModels to engender this behavior. For this reason, tModels exist outside the parent-child containment relationships between the businessEntity, businessService and bindingTemplate structures.

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Access the specification ... WellLogML|WellLogML does not seem to be an acronym. WellLogML does not seem to be an acronym.
WellLogML is a format for exchanging well log data over networks.

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Access the specification ... TCP|Transmission Control Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol
TCP is a binary non-XML format. Ideas of reformulating transport layer protocols such as TCP or IP as XML applications are just april fools.

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Access the specification ... IP|Internet Protocol
Internet Protocol
TCP is a binary non-XML format. Ideas of reformulating transport layer protocols such as TCP or IP as XML applications are just april fools.

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Access the specification ... DSL|Document Securing Language Document Securing Language
A language and a system for securing XML documents.

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More Information NCName|Non Colonized Name
Non Colonized Name
A NCName is essentially a XML name without a colon.

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Access the specification ... QName|Qualified Name
Qualified Name
A qualified name consists of an optional prefix and the name's local part. The Prefix provides the namespace prefix part of the qualified name, and must be associated with a namespace URI reference in a namespace declaration. The LocalPart provides the local part of the qualified name and must not contain colons.

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Access the specification ... Name|name is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
name is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
A Name is a token beginning with a letter or one of a few punctuation characters, and continuing with letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, colons, or full stops, together known as name characters.

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Access the specification ... document|document is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
document is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
A data object is an XML document if it is well-formed, as defined in this specification. A well-formed XML document may in addition be valid if it meets certain further constraints.

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Access the specification ... validity constraint|validity constraint is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
validity constraint is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
A rule which applies to all valid XML documents. Violations of validity constraints are errors; they must, at user option, be reported by validating XML processors.

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Access the specification ... XML processor|XML processor is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
XML processor is not an acronym it's a term from the XML specificiation
A software module called an XML processor is used to read XML documents and provide access to their content and structure.

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Access the specification ... CAP|Common Alerting Protocol The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a simple XML format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks. CAP allows a consistent warning message to be disseminated simultaneously over many different warning systems, thus increasing warning effectiveness while simplifying the warning task. Developed by an ad-hoc working group of emergency management and communication specialists, and endorsed by the non-profit Partnership for Public Warning, the CAP foramt has been adopted as a Committee Specification by the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/). XAS|XML Acroynm Soup XML Acroynm Soup
Not really an official acronym, yet. But the reason for starting this project.

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More Information XOM|XML Object Model XML Object Model
XOM is a new XML object model. It is an open source (LGPL), tree-based API for processing XML with Java that strives for correctness and simplicity.

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More Information eXist|eXist is not an acronym. eXist is not an acronym.
eXist is an Open Source native XML database featuring efficient, index-based XPath query processing, extensions for keyword search, XUpdate support and tight integration with existing XML development tools. The database is lightweight, completely written in Java and may be easily deployed in a number of ways, running either as a stand-alone server process, inside a servlet-engine or directly embedded into an application.

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More Information TAXML|Tax Markup Language
Tax Markup Language
The purpose of TAXML is to analyze personal and business tax reporting and compliance information to facilitate interoperability using XML in a way that is open, flexible and international in scope, and to produce a vocabulary of terms, a repository of artifacts including XML templates, documents exchanged for tax compliance, best practices, guidelines and recommendations for practical implementation.

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More Information WS-SecureConversation|Web Services Secure Conversation|WS-SecureConversation|WS-Secure-Conversation|WS SecureConversation|WS Secure Conversation|WSSC
Web Services Secure Conversation
WS-SecureConversation defines extensions that build on WS-Security to provide secure communication. Specifically, it defines mechanisms for establishing and sharing security contexts, and deriving session keys from security contexts.

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Access the specification ... WS-SecurityPolicy|Web Services Security Policy|WS SecurityPolicy|WS Security Policy|WS-Security-Policy
Web Services Security Policy
WS-SecurityPolicy is an addendum to WS-Security and indicates the policy assertions for WS-Policy which apply to WS-Security.

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Access the specification ... WS-Trust|Web Services Trust Language|WS Trust
Web Services Trust Language
WS-Trust defines extensions that build on WS-Security to request and issue security tokens and to manage trust relationships.

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Access the specification ... WS-PolicyAssertions|Web Services Policy Assertions Language|WSPolicyAssertions|WS-Policy Assertions|WS Policy Assertions|WSPA Web Services Policy Assertions Language
WS-PolicyAssertions specifies a set of common message policy assertions that can be specified within a policy.

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Access the specification ... WS-PolicyAttachment|Web Service Policy Attachment|WS-Policy Attachment|WS Policy Attachment|WSPA
Web Service Policy Attachment
WSPolicyAttachment specifies three specific attachment mechanisms for using policy expressions with existing Web Service technologies. Specifically, it defines how to associate policy expressions with WSDL type definitions and UDDI entities. We also define how to associate implementation-specific policy with all or part of a WSDL portType when exposed from a specific implementation.

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Access the specification ... WSPolicy|Web Service Policy Framework|WS-Policy|WS Policy
Web Service Policy Framework
WS-Policy provides a general purpose model and corresponding syntax to describe and communicate the policies of a Web Service. WS-Policy defines a base set of constructs that can be used and extended by other Web Services specifications to describe a broad range of service requirements, preferences, and capabilities.

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Access the specification ... SWCG|Semantic Web Coordination Group
Semantic Web Coordination Group
The Semantic Web Activity has been established to serve a leadership role, in both the design of enabling specifications and the open, collaborative development of technologies that support the automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. To facilitate the effectiveness and efficiency of this Activity, the Semantic Web Coordination Group is tasked to provide a forum for managing the interrelationships and interdependencies among groups focusing on standards and technologies that relate to this goals of the Semantic Web Activity.

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More Information Axis|Apache eXtensible Interaction System
Apache eXtensible Interaction System
Axis is an implementation of the SOAP-Protocol. In detail: Axis is essentially Apache SOAP 3.0. It is a from-scratch rewrite, designed around a streaming model (using SAX internally rather than DOM). The intention is to create a more modular, more flexible, and higher-performing SOAP implementation (relative to Apache SOAP 2.0).

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More Information Xerces|Xerces is not an acronym. The tool is named after the Xerces Blue butterfly Xerces is not an acronym. The tool is named after the Xerces Blue butterfly
Xerces is a validating XML parser available in Java, C++, and Perl.

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More Information Xalan|Xalan is not an acronym. The tool is named after a music instrument.
Xalan is not an acronym. The tool is named after a music instrument.
Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.

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More Information Batik|Batik is not an acronym. Batik is a highly evolved art tradition that developed in Java.
Batik is not an acronym. Batik is a highly evolved art tradition that developed in Java.
Batik is a Java technology based toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation or manipulation.

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More Information Xindice|Xindice is not an acronym
Xindice is not an acronym
Apache Xindice is a database designed from the ground up to store XML data or what is more commonly referred to as a native XML database.

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More Information XCSL|XML Constraint Specification Language XML Constraint Specification Language
XML Constraint Specification Language, is a domain specific language conceived with the purpose of allowing XML designers to restrict the content of XML documents. It is a simple, and small language useful to write contextual constraints over the textual value of XML elements and attributes.

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More Information LoPiX|Logic Programming in XML Logic Programming in XML
The LoPiX system is an implementation of the XML querying and data manipulation language XPathLog.

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More Information XPathLog|XPathLog -- Sorry no further expansion possible XPathLog -- Sorry no further expansion possible
XPathLogic is a logic which is interpreted wrt. XML documents. Its Horn fragment, XPathLog, provides a logic-based language for manipulating and integrating XML data.

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Access the specification ... ASAP|Asynchronous Service Access Protocol
Asynchronous Service Access Protocol
ASAP should be a very simple extension of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) that enables generic asynchronous Web Services or long-running Web Services. ASAP will complement existing standards and be consistent with the W3C XML Protocol (XMLP) work, including SOAP. ASAP builds upon technical work previously published in the SWAP and AWSP protocols.

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More Information AWSP|Asynchronous Web Services Protocol Asynchronous Web Services Protocol
AWSP is a extension of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to support asynchronous Web Services. In this context, asynchronous means that there is a latency between the request for a resource (or service) and the actual return of that resource (or service results). AWSP is designed to support web services that take more than 60 seconds to create their results.

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More Information DBX|DBX (sorry no further expansion possible) DBX (sorry no further expansion possible)
DBX is a databae system which is completely written in PHP, and works using XML files as its native format. The database can be queried using standard SQL queries.

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More Information ASN.1|Abstract Syntax Notation One|ASN1|ASN 1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
ASN.1 is a notation for defining protocol messages and an important schema language for XML. Data defined in ASN.1 can be encoded either in binary form (by using one of several standard sets of binary "encoding rules" such as PER or BER) or as XML 1.0 documents (by using the XML encoding rules, XER). ASN.1 is widely deployed in the telecommunications networks and used in many protocols in the areas of cellular telephony, security, videoconferencing, air transportation, messaging, directory, biometrics, etc.

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Access the specification ... BLOAT|Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport
Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport
BLOAT is a reformulation of IP and two transport layer protocols (TCP and UDP) as XML applications. Keep in mind, this is a april's fool RFC!

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Access the specification ... PIDF|Presence Information Data Format
Presence Information Data Format
The Common Profile for Presence (CPP) Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) is specified as a common presence data format for "application/pidf+xml" to represent the XML MIME entity for PIDF.

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Access the specification ... RPID|Rich Presence Information Data Format
Rich Presence Information Data Format
The Rich Presence Information Data Format (RPID) adds elements to the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) that provide additional information about the presentity and its contacts. This information can be translated into call routing behavior or be delivered to watchers, for example. The information is designed so that much of it can be derived automatically, e.g., from calendar files or user activity.

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Access the specification ... STX|Streaming Transformations for XML Streaming Transformations for XML
Streaming Transformations for XML (STX) is a one-pass transformation language for XML documents that builds on the Simple API for XML (SAX). STX is intended as a high-speed, low memory consumption alternative to XSLT. Since it does not require the construction of an in-memory tree, it is suitable for use in resource constrained scenarios.

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More Information JXV|Java XML View Java XML View
Java XML View is a Java library designed to generate "XML views" of Java Objects, in SAX, DOM, or some other form. JXV also supports "reverse-engeneering" an XML view back into an object.

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More Information CAM|Content Assembly Mechanism
Content Assembly Mechanism
Content Assembly Mechanism should provide generalized mechanism in XML whereby implementers can deliver the means to bring together business process context and the localized implementation business rules needed to take a raw industry standard schema instance and combine that with actual business information content, context and roles and produce a valid consistent XML document instance.

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More Information MTOM|SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
MTOM describes an abstract feature and a concerete implementation of it for optimizing the transmission and/or wire format of SOAP messages.

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Access the specification ... XIMS|eXtensible Information Management System eXtensible Information Management System
XIMS is a Information/Content Management System that in its current implementation primarily provides facilities to create and manage web sites. With XIMS it is possible to make use of a flexible recursive role and ACL system for securing content. Using "Department Root" Containers its possible to inherit organizational-unit-wide properties like stylesheet-, or navigation-settings for example.

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More Information WSDM|Web Services Distributed Management
Web Services Distributed Management
The purpose of this initiative is to define Web Services management, including using Web Services architecture and technology to manage distributed resource.

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More Information OXML|OXML OXML
Oxml is a simple wrapper for C++ programmer of the library expat to read XML.

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More Information XML-DEV|XML Developers Mailing List|XMLDEV XML Developers Mailing List
XML-DEV serves as an open, unmoderated list supporting XML implementation and development. XML-DEV emphasizes active participation through code development, creation of protocols and specifications, and other material contributions such as reference resources.

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More Information TofuML|Tofu Markup Language
Tofu Markup Language
Not an official specification, yet ;-) The abbreviation is solely used within a W3C internal template document clarifying how to prepare submissions. XAdES|XML Advanced Electronic Signatures XML Advanced Electronic Signatures
XAdES extends the IETF/W3CXML-Signature Syntax and Processing specification into the domain of non-repudiation by defining XML formats for advanced electronic signatures that remain valid over long periods and are compliant with the European "Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures" (also denoted as "the Directive" or the "European Directive" in the rest of the present document) and incorporate additional useful information in common uses cases. This includes evidence as to its validity even if the signer or verifying party later attempts to deny (repudiates) the validity of the signature.

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More Information XIndirect|XML Indirection XML Indirection
XIndirect is a mechanism for using XML to represent indirect addresses in order to augment the core functionality of XLink and XPointer without requiring either of those specifications to themselves require support for indirect addresses. The facilities defined are specifically designed to meet the requirements for systems that support the authoring and management of complex systems of documents.

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Access the specification ... EGIX|Embedding Glyph Identifiers in XML Documents Embedding Glyph Identifiers in XML Documents
ISO/IEC 10036 and its technical corrigendum 1 allows registration of glyphs for private or limited use. EGIX provides a mechanism for XML documents to reference to such registered glyphs.

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Access the specification ... Schematron|Schematron Schematron
The Schematron is a Structural Schema Language. It is currently undergoing ISO standardization to become ISO/IEC 19757 - DSDL Document Schema Definition Language - Part 3: Rule-based validation - Schematron. The Schematron differs in basic concept from other schema languages in that it not based on grammars but on finding tree patterns in the parsed document. This approach allows many kinds of structures to be represented which are inconvenient and difficult in grammar-based schema languages. If you know XPath or the XSLT expression language, you can start to use The Schematron immediately.

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More Information EXSLT|Extending XSLT Extending XSLT
EXSLT is a community initiative to provide extensions to XSLT. Its primary goal is to ensure compatibility between XSLT processors for commonly used extensions. It is led by Jeni Tennison with help from Jim Fuller, Dave Pawson and Uche Ogbuji.

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More Information RDFWeb|RDFWeb RDFWeb
RDFWeb is an experimental linked information system, exploring some interconnected applications of the Semantic Web, beginning with the deployment of FOAF.

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More Information XMLfr|XML France XML France
<XML> fr is a French site dedicated to XML written in XML by XML experts.

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More Information Examplotron|Examplotron Examplotron
The purpose of examplotron is to use instance documents as a lightweight schema language-- eventually adding the information needed to guide a validator in the sample documents.

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More Information FOAF|Friend of a friend vocabulary Friend of a friend vocabulary
FOAF is an RDFWeb project. FOAF is expressed as an RDF Schema, annotated with DAML. FOAF allows the expression of personal information and relationships, and is a useful building block for creating information systems that support online communities.

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More Information WS-CAF|Web Services Composite Application Framework
Web Services Composite Application Framework
A collection of three specifications -- Web Service Context (WS-CTX), Web Service Coordination Framework (WS-CF), and Web Service Transaction Management (WS-TXM) designed to solve problems that arise when multiple Web Services are used in combination.

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More Information WS-CTX|Web Service Context|WS Context|WS-Context
Web Service Context
A mechanism to manage, share, and access context information among related Web Services.

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Access the specification ... WS-CF|Web Services Coordination Framework
Web Services Coordination Framework
A software agent to hande context management. Web Services in a composite application register with a coordinator to ensure messages and results are correctly communicated.

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Access the specification ... WS-TXM|Web Services Transaction Management
Web Services Transaction Management
Defines three distinct transaction protocols that can be plugged into the coordination framework for interoperability across existing transaction managers, long running compensations, and asynchronous business process flows. It also includes a solution to bridge different transaction models (e.g. MQ Series, JMS).

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Access the specification ... XQJ|XQuery API for Java XQuery API for Java
XQJ tries develop a common API that allows an application to submit queries conforming to the W3C XQuery 1.0 specification and to process the results of such queries.

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More Information WSOM|Web Services Outsourcing Manager Web Services Outsourcing Manager
A Framework for the dynamic configuration of business processes using Web Services.

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More Information BPOL|Business Process Outsourcing Language Business Process Outsourcing Language
XML-based description of requirements of a business process outsourcing capturing. To be used by the Web Services Outsourcing Manager (WSOM).

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More Information WSRL|Web Services Relationship Language Web Services Relationship Language
The Web Services Relationship Language is proposed to capture the Web Services relationships at different granularities as basis of an automated matchmaking process. CPFR-XML|Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Schema|CPFR Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Schema
CPFR-XML establishes guidelines for XML message exchange among systems that implement the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards Association Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment principles.

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More Information FDCML|Field Device Configuration Markup Language Field Device Configuration Markup Language
FDCML is a markup language for describing components of an industrial automation system.

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More Information VulnXML|Vulnerability Description Language Vulnerability Description Language
VulnXML describes web application security vulnerabilities. It is intended to produce checks in a variety of tools that understand the format.

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More Information AVDL|Application Vulnerability Description Language
Application Vulnerability Description Language
AVDL is a uniform way of describing application security vulnerabilities. AVDL is an XML definition for exchange of information relating to security vulnerabilities of applications exposed to networks.

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More Information XMLAD|XML Acronym Demystifier XML Acronym Demystifier
The XML Acronym Demystifier is formed as an open-source project. It defines a schema for describing XML acronyms and abbreviations accompanied with an XML document containing descriptons of various XML related terms.

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More Information MULECO|Multilingual Upper-Level Electronic Commerce Ontology Multilingual Upper-Level Electronic Commerce Ontology
MULECO is a project of the CEN/ISSS Electronic Commerce Workshop. The aim of MULECO is to develop a mechanism that will allow existing ontologies to identify their inter-relationships by identifying the relationships between themselves and a set of terms defined in a multilingual ontology that has been designed specifically to allow people to find terms using their native language.
(Definition adapted from the original specification document)

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More Information RoboML|Robotic Markup Language Robotic Markup Language
RoboML is an XML-based language for data representation and interchange in robotic applications. Combined with a set of communication protocols, it is aimed at providing a common interface for hardware and software robotic agents communicating via internet networks.
(Definition adapted from the original specification document)

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More Information AORML|Agent-Oriented Rule Markup Language Agent-Oriented Rule Markup Language
AORML is a modelling language with following features:
1. it has a richer set of basic ontological concepts, allowing to capture more semantics of a domain, as compared to ER, UML and AUML.
2. unlike the UML, AORML allows to integrate state and behavior modeling in one diagram.
3. it is the first approach that allows to systematically distinguish between external and internal models, and to account for the phenomenon of internalization.
4. it is the first approach that employs and visualizes the important concept of reaction rules for behavior modeling
(Definition adapted from tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/gwagner/AORML/)

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More Information XRML|Extensible Rule Markup Language Extensible Rule Markup Language
XRML is an extension of XML with additional capabilities of representation of rule structure, automatic knowledge processing by exchanged rule, and consistency maintenance of knowledge.
(Definition adapted from the original specification document)

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Access the specification ... SRML|Simple Rule Markup Language also: Simulation Reference Markup Language Simple Rule Markup Language also: Simulation Reference Markup Language
(1) SRML describes a generic rule language consisting of the subset of language constructs common to the popular forward-chaining rule engines. Because it does not use constructs specific to a proprietary vendor language, rules specified using this XML DTD can easily be translated and executed on any conforming rule engine, making it useful as an interlingua for rule exchange between Java rule engines.
(Definition adapted from xml.coverpages.org)
(2) SRML is an XML application that can describe the behavior for distributed simulation models, and its runtime environment is software that is capable of executing those models. The goal of SRML is to enable simulations or other content to be served, received, and processed in a standard fashion using Internet technologies and the World Wide Web, just as HTML enables that functionality for text, and MathML enables that functionality for mathematics. (Definition adapted from the original specification document)

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More Information RFML|Relational-Functional Markup Language Relational-Functional Markup Language
RFML is an XML application for Relfun-style declarative programming and knowledge representation. RFML has been implemented as a (Web-)output syntax for relational-functional knowledge bases and computations as part of the Relfun system. (Web-)input of RFML markup has been implemented via an XSLT stylesheet.
(Definition adapted from xml.coverpages.org)

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Access the specification ... CBML|Case Based Markup Language Case Based Markup Language
CBML attempts to mark up cases in XML to enable distributed computing.
(Definition adapted from the original specification document)

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More Information XMML|Exploration and Mining Markup Language Exploration and Mining Markup Language
XMML is an encoding for data, not graphics. However, it will be easy to convert XMML datasets into presentation formats, such as the HTML webpage language or SVG vector graphics language, using standard XSLT technology.
(Definition adapted from www.ned.dem.csiro.au/XMML/)

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More Information OODT|Object Oriented Data Technology Object Oriented Data Technology
The OODT group performs research in object oriented data systems technologies for Section 381, JPL, NASA, and beyond. Initially, the group provided object oriented technology to interferometry projects, specifically targeting the Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) as a prototype activity. Recently, they have expanded this technology to provide interoperability between data systems and are working to create a framework to improve access to existing science data systems, as well as building the foundation for next generation data systems.
(Definition adapted from oodt.jpl.nasa.gov)

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More Information NAA|Newspaper Association of America Newspaper Association of America
NAA is a nonprofit organization representing the $55 billion newspaper industry. NAA members account for nearly 90 percent of the daily circulation in the United States and a wide range of nondaily U.S. newspapers. NAA also has many Canadian and International members. Educators, university newspapers, press associations and suppliers/vendors are also members. The Association focuses on six key strategic priorities that collectively affect the newspaper industry: marketing, public policy, diversity, industry development, newspaper operations and readership.
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More Information XPP|Common API for XML Pull Parsing Common API for XML Pull Parsing
XPP or XmlPull is an effort to define a simple and elegant pull parsing API that will provide a standardized way to do pull XML parsing from J2ME to J2EE.
Note: XPP is also used as abbreviation forXML for Publishers and Printers
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More Information PrintML|Printing Industry Markup Language Printing Industry Markup Language
PrintML is the name of a professional application derived from the XML language and intended for the graphic industry.
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More Information PCX|printcafe eProduction eCommerce eXchange printcafe eProduction eCommerce eXchange
printCafe PCX is designed to be an integration specification for interfacing external systems and services with printCafe solutions. It will map out a number of areas that are important for ongoing integration, and the relationships of these to industry standards efforts.
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More Information IMS|Educom Instructional Management Systems Project Educom Instructional Management Systems Project
IMS defines and delivers interoperable, XML-based specifications for exchanging learning content and information about learners among learning system components. IMS members are implementing and adopting these specifications to make learning easier to deliver anywhere and anytime at a lower cost, as well as creating new mechanisms, new contexts, and new products for education and training. IMS specifications already are becoming worldwide de facto standards for defining acquisition requirements and for delivering learning products and services.
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More Information SCORM|Shareable Content Object Reference Model Initiative Shareable Content Object Reference Model Initiative
The SCORM is a collection of specifications adapted from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive suite of e-learning capabilities that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning content. The work of the ADL Initiative to develop the SCORM is also a process to knit together disparate groups and interests. This reference model aims to coordinate emerging-technologies and commercial and/or public implementations.
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More Information LMML|Learning Material Markup Language Learning Material Markup Language
LMML is an XML-based markup language designed for educational contents (teachware). It provides sublanguages for various educational fields and yet remains further extensible. Therefore it represents not only one single markup language but rather a family of various languages. LMML-CS is one member of this family and thus called an instance of LMML. It is applied to describe topics from the field of computer science.
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More Information CPML|Call Policy Markup Language Call Policy Markup Language
CPML is an open language used to simply describe call processing. CPML is an extension of XML that is a standards based, meta-language from which other languages are derived. CPML was developed by DTI to migrate the operations of the telecommunications network, including its features, functions, and enhanced services, out of the world of proprietary operating systems, structured databases, and complex programs or APIs. CPML opens the telecommunications network to basic IP tools that brings order to its complexity and empowers carriers, and ultimately customers, to control, customize, and extend the functionality and usefulness of the telecommunications network.
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More Information BHTML|Broadcast Hypertext Markup Language Broadcast Hypertext Markup Language
BHTML extends HTML by adding attributes for standardizing multimedia object descriptions within HTML OBJECT elements, using the SMIL SWITCH option and introducing an EVENT element to manage the actions to be taken when certain conditions are encountered. The BHTML specification also contains properties for defining 3D effects, controlling the volume of audio presentations, and for clipping and overflowing image areas. BHTML is an application of XML, so is case sensitive and requires all end-tags to be present.
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More Information WSACL|Web Services Application Component Library Web Services Application Component Library
WSACL is designed to enable the rapid access to and delivery of applications from a directory of re-useable components. These will come from leading third party software vendors, existing BT products, or from bespoke solutions that have been developed by BT's consultancy and systems integration teams. Each component will go through an accreditation process to ensure that it meets a defined set of standards for quality, interoperability, scalability and support. It will also incorporate end-to-end service level agreements. This library of re-usable components will reduce the cost, complexity and length of time required for BT to develop and deploy Web Services enabled solutions, thereby assisting it to respond quickly and flexibly to customers' needs.

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More Information WSDE|Web Services Deployment Environment Web Services Deployment Environment
WSDE is a managed, hosted facility that incorporates both a pilot area and an operational area to enable customers to get Web Services based solutions up and running quickly, with reduced cost and risk. BT will work with customers to set the parameters of the pilot, undertake the technical design and manage the application, hardware and helpdesk.

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More Information WSM|Web Service Managmenet Web Service Managmenet
WSM is management of a particular Web Service or a group of Web Services within the same domain of management responsibility. For example, Web Services provided with oneapplication server might be managed as a group.
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Access the specification ... NAXML|NACS XML Data Interchange NACS XML Data Interchange
NAXML is the NACS Guidelines for the use of XML in document exchanges in a business-to-business content
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More Information XMTP|XML Mail Transport Protocol XML Mail Transport Protocol
XMTP is a mapping of MIME/SMTP to XML. MIME is the lingua franca of the Web. Both the HTTP and SMTP protocols are MIME based. As XML gains in popularity it is useful to be able to represent MIME messages as XML documents. This mapping is straightforward and demonstrates handling of binary data in XML documents as base64 encodings. Using XMTP, SMTP messages can be transformed via XSLT into HTML pages for viewing. XMTP has been implemented in Java using SAX and in C++/COM using the IE5 DOM.
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More Information GAME|Genome Annotation Markup Elements Genome Annotation Markup Elements
The goals of GAME, at least in the perspective of the bioxml community, are to provide an XML DTD and tools for annotating biosequence 'features'. bioxml:game is part of bioxml's overall goals of providing a group of 'dtd-lets' for molecular biology. These dtd-let's will be able to be combined to create more expressive dtds. You'll notice that bioxml:game doesn't actually contain a seq dtd. This is because seq is treated in a seperate dtd-let. So it is the goal of bioxml to use a stripped down GAME as the basis for the bioxml seq-features dtd-let.
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More Information WSIPL|Web Services Integration and Processing Language Web Services Integration and Processing Language
WSIPL provides specially designed language constructs for integrating and processing Web Services systematically at minimal programming efforts.(Definition adapted from www.csis.hku.hk/~dbgroup/seminar/seminar020621.htm

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More Information WSMF|Web Services Modeling Framework also Web Services Management Framework Web Services Modeling Framework also Web Services Management Framework
(1) The Web Services Modeling Framework provides the appropriate conceptual model for developing and describing web services and their composition. (2) The Web Services Management Framework is a logical architecture for managing computing resources, including Web Services.

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Real Estate Standards has been produced and accepted as an authoritative source of definitions and applications of terms used in the institutional equity real estate investment business.
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More Information PhysicsML|Physics Markup Language Physics Markup Language
The set of XML representations of physics concepts.

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More Information xCal|iCalendar DTD Document iCalendar DTD Document
xCal defines an XML DTD that corresponds to the iCalendar, Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification defined byRFC 2445.

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Access the specification ... bcXML|Building Construction Extensible Markup Language Building Construction Extensible Markup Language
bcXML will provide the European Building and Construction industry with a powerful but low cost communication infrastructure that:
(1) Supports electronic business between Clients, Architects and Engineers, Suppliers (of components, systems and services), Contractors and Subcontractors
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Access the specification ... Real Estate Listing Markup Language|OpenMLS and RELML OpenMLS and RELML
OpenMLS is a web-based real estate listing management system.
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More Information EVA|European Visual Archive Project European Visual Archive Project
EVA is a searchable image resource containing historical photographs dating from 1840 up to today. The photographs originate from the collections of the London Metropolitan Archives and the Stadsarchief Antwerpen.
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More Information ATLAS|ATLA Serials Project ATLA Serials Project
ATLAS is an undertaking by the ATLA. Its purpose is to digitize 50 years' worth of 50 journals that deal with the academic study of religion and make them accessible from the Web.
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More Information e-GIF|e-Government Interoperability Framework e-Government Interoperability Framework
The main thrust of the e-GIF is adopting internet and world wide web standards for all government systems. This approach is designed to be pragmatic and aims to reduce the costs and risk of operating information technology systems while keeping the public sector in step with the global internet revolution.
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Access the specification ... ANZLIC|The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council
ANZLIC is the peak council for public sector spatial data management in Australia and New Zealand. ANZLIC provides an overarching framework within which other national bodies contribute to ANZLIC objectives. Those bodies include the PSMA, the ICSM, and the CGNA.
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Access the specification ... CPIM|Common Profile for Instant Messaging Common Profile for Instant Messaging
Semantics and data formats for common services of Instant Messaging and online Presence, independent of underlying transfer infrastructure, are described. The CPIM profile meets the requirements specified inIETF RFC 2779using a minimalist approach allowing interoperation of a wide range of IM and Presence systems.
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Access the specification ... KQML|Knowledge Query Manipulation Language Knowledge Query Manipulation Language
KQML is complementary to work on representation languages for domain content, including the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Initiative's KIF. KQML has also been used to transmit object-oriented data, and a wide range of information can be accumulated. KQML is a language for programs to use to communicate attitudes about information, such as querying, stating, believing, requiring, achieving, subscribing, and offering. KQML is indifferent to the format of the information itself, thus KQML expressions will often contain subexpressions in other so-called content languages.
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More Information TTWG|Timed Text Working Group The mission of the TTWG is to develop an XML based format used for the representation of streamable text synchronized with some other timed media, like audio and video. A typical application is real time captioning of movies on the Web (e.g. integrated in SMIL ).
(Definition adapted from the original specification document) SYMM|Synchronized Multimedia Activity W3C's SYMM has focused on the design of a new language for choreographing multimedia presentations where audio, video, text and graphics are combined in real-time. The language, SMIL is written as an XML application and is currently a W3C Recommendation. Simply put, it enables authors to specify what should be presented when, enabling them to control the precise time that a sentence is spoken and make it coincide with the display of a given image appearing on the screen.
(Definition adapted from the original specification document) VoiceXML|Voice Extensible Markup Language
Voice Extensible Markup Language
VoiceXML is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed-initiative conversations. Its major goal is to bring the advantages of web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications.
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Access the specification ... LI-XML|LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML
The purpose of the LI-XML is to produce a structured, end-to-end LegalXML Lawful Interception Process framework consisting of XML standards and authentication mechanisms, including the development and harmonization of identifiable related XML standards and XML translations of ASN.1 modules, including proprietary ones made available in accordance with IPR policies.
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More Information MMAP|Mobile Message Access Protocol Specification Mobile Message Access Protocol Specification
MMAP provides a standard framework for mobile messaging over SOAP and HTTP. It provides support for service identification and billing and provides a standard way of supporting session-oriented communication. MMAP supports generic XML operations as SOAP body elements.
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More Information WCS|Web Coverage Service Web Coverage Service
The WCS supports the networked interchange of geospatial data as "coverages" containing values or properties of geographic locations. Unlike the WMS, which filters and portrays spatial data to return static maps (server-rendered as pictures), the WCS provides access to intact (unrendered) geospatial information, as needed for client-side rendering, multi-valued coverages, and input into scientific models and other clients beyond simple viewers.
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More Information WS-Reliability|WS-Reliability
WS-Reliability
WS-Reliability is a SOAP -based protocol for exchanging SOAP messages with guaranteed delivery, no duplicates, and guaranteed message ordering. WS-Reliability is defined as SOAP header extensions, and is independent of the underlying protocol. This specification contains a binding to HTTP.
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More Information EMMA|Extensible MultiModal Annotation Language Extensible MultiModal Annotation Language
EMMA is the markup language used to represent human input to a multimodal application. As such, it may be seen in terms of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework as the exchange mechanism between user input devices and the interaction management capabilities of an application.
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Access the specification ... VoxML|VoxML sorry no further expansion possible VoxML sorry no further expansion possible
VoxML markup language for voice applications allows developers to simply and easily add speech interfaces to their Web applications or content. The VoxML language uses Internet technologies and standards, so developing VoxML apps is similar to developing Web applications. These dialogues are interpreted by voice browsers, just as HTML pages are interpreted by web browsers. Theoretically allowing anyone to connect with Internet information from any telephone or voice-enabled device. ACL|Agent Communication Language Agent Communication Language
A FIPA ACL message contains a set of one or more message parameters. Precisely which parameters are needed for effective agent communication will vary according to the situation; the only parameter that is mandatory in all ACL messages is the performative, although it is expected that most ACL messages will also contain sender, receiver and content parameters.
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More Information GXA|Global XML Web Services Architecture
Global XML Web Services Architecture
GXA is a collection of infrastructure protocols built on top of SOAP . GXA encompasses several specifications. Each one focuses on resolving a particular type of functionality, such as security, routing, or transactions. The specifications are designed to be composable, meaning you can use any combination of them that's appropriate to satisfy business requirements.
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More Information HITIS|Hospitality Industry Technology Integration Standards Hospitality Industry Technology Integration Standards
The HITIS Project is maintained by the American Hotel and Motel Association. The goal of HITIS is to identify general functions (of property management systems) and standardize their implementation. In addition, a common data dictionary for hospitality relevant data is to be developed.
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More Information OIM|MDC Open Information Model MDC Open Information Model
MDC OIM is a vendor-neutral and technology-independent specification of core metadata types found in operational, data warehousing, and knowledge management environments. XML is the standard format for the interchange of metadata using the MDC OIM
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More Information cXML|Commerce XML Commerce XML
cXML allows buying organizations, suppliers, service providers, and intermediaries to communicate using a single, standard, open language.
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Access the specification ... mpXML|Marketplace XML Marketplace XML
mpXML is an open XML standard for the exchange of electronic commerce marketplace information.
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More Information OCP|Open Catalog Protocol Open Catalog Protocol
OCP is an XML-based application level protocol that enables the searching, retrieval, and updating of product information and the exchange of complex data between product catalogs.
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Access the specification ... eCX|eCatalog XML eCatalog XML
eCX is a DTD that provides a method for electronic catalog interoperability. It is unique because it deals with the difficult problem of dynamic categorization and attributes in electronic catalogs.
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Access the specification ... HML|Hybrid Mail Language Hybrid Mail Language
HML is a universal language to be used between customers and hybrid mail operators, as well as between hybrid mail operators
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More Information PDML|Product Data Markup Language Product Data Markup Language
PDML is a set of XML vocabularies and a usage structure for deploying product data on the Internet and making it visible to DoD weapon system support personnel.
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Access the specification ... PDX|Product Definition Exchange Product Definition Exchange
PDX Standard Group consists of leading corporations and standards organizations in electronics manufacturing.
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More Information TDML|ECIX Timing Diagram Markup Language ECIX Timing Diagram Markup Language
TDML is an open industry-standard language for the exchange of interactive timing diagrams for digital systems
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More Information UXF|UML eXchange Format UML eXchange Format
UXF is a XML-based model interchange format for UML, which is a standard software modeling language. UXF is a simple and well-structured format to encode, publish, access and exchange UML models, and allows UML to be highly interoperable.
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Access the specification ... XLIFF|XML Localization Interchange File Format XML Localization Interchange File Format
XLIFF is intended to give any software provider a single interchange file format that can be understood by any localization provider. It is loosely based on the OpenTag version 1.2 specification and borrows from the TMX 1.2 specification.
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Access the specification ... TMX|Translation Memory Exchange Translation Memory Exchange
TMX is XML-compliant. It also uses various ISO standards for date/time, language codes, and country codes.
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Access the specification ... MoDL|Molecular Dynamics [Markup] Language Molecular Dynamics [Markup] Language
MoDL is a new XML application for simulation data from molecular dynamics.
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More Information XML-Based DSL Provisioning|Covad xLink API Covad xLink API
Covad xLink is a XML-based application programming interface to enable flow-through DSL provisioning between Covad and its channel partners to create a seamless supply chain
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Access the specification ... GEN|Global Engineering Networking Initiative Global Engineering Networking Initiative
GEN is an open co-operation of industry and university partners and has started in 1994. The mission of the GEN Initiative is to provide a global electronic market place for engineers.
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More Information VCML|Value Chain Markup Language Value Chain Markup Language
VCML is a comprehensive set of XML-based, industry-specific vocabularies and documents required to conduct business over the Internet. The VCML transaction sets provide an XML representation of industry-specific EDI transactions, allowing industry members to leverage their existing business rules and semantics for Internet-based electronic transaction exchange.
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Access the specification ... tXML|TransportationXML TransportationXML
tXML defines the system interfaces to the application components, which comprise the OptiManage, OptiBid and OptiYield product solutions. These interfaces and data flows are the details that define the larger business processes between shippers and carriers that include management, procurement and optimization of transportation services.
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Access the specification ... TXML|Tracker XML Tracker XML
TXML is a type of XML designed specifically for export control transactions and international trade.
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Access the specification ... UCC|Uniform Code Council Uniform Code Council
The mission of the UCC, Inc., is to take a global leadership role in establishing and promoting multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communication.
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Access the specification ... GUIDE|Global Uniform Interoperable Data Exchange Global Uniform Interoperable Data Exchange
GUIDE is a XML format for describing business information interchanges between a set of endpoints exchanging transactions.
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Access the specification ... igML|Implementation Guideline Markup Language Implementation Guideline Markup Language
igML is a new XML based mark-up language for the rendition of EDI implementation guidelines and standards. igML will serve many of the same purposes as SEF, and the IMPDEF and DIRDEF EDIFACT messages, with important extensions.

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Access the specification ... UDEF|Universal Data Element Framework Universal Data Element Framework
UDEF is described as a Dewey Decimal-Like Indexing System for the Web
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Access the specification ... OTA|OpenTravel Alliance OpenTravel Alliance
OTA is a self-funded, non-profit organization, which is a comprised of major airlines, hoteliers, car rental companies, leisure suppliers, travel agencies, global distribution systems (GDS), technology providers and other interested parties working to create and implement industry-wide, open e-business specifications.
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Access the specification ... GEML|Gene Expression Markup Language Gene Expression Markup Language
GEML is a proposed standard for Gene Expression data
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More Information IRML|Investment Research Markup Language Investment Research Markup Language
IRML is an initial specification for a proposed open-architecture standard which would benefit all facets of financial information technology
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More Information XFRML|Extensible Financial Reporting Markup Language Extensible Financial Reporting Markup Language
XFRML is a framework that will allow the financial community a standards-based method to prepare, publish in a variety of formats, exchange and analyze financial reports and the information they contain.
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More Information EAC|Encoded Archival Context Initiative Encoded Archival Context Initiative
EAC is a prototype standard for representing description of people, families, and corporate bodies
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More Information XQL|XML Query Language XML Query Language
XQL is a notation for addressing and filtering the elements and text of XML documents. XQL is a natural extension to the XSL pattern syntax. It provides a concise, understandable notation for pointing to specific elements and for searching for nodes with particular characteristics.
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Access the specification ... STPML|Straight Through Processing Markup Language Straight Through Processing Markup Language
STPML is an XML message specification designed to meet the requirements of straight-through processing for the financial securities industry. STPML enables straight-through processing by supporting most industry standards for data exchange.
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More Information IOTP|Internet Open Trading Protocol Internet Open Trading Protocol
IOTP provides an interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is payment system independent and encapsulates payment systems such as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GeldKarte, etc.
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More Information XMSG|XML Messaging Specification XML Messaging Specification
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.
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BIPS is a freely available protocol for sending payment instructions safely over the Internet
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Access the specification ... VRML|Virtual Reality Modeling Language Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VRML is a file format for describing interactive 3D objects and worlds. VRML is designed to be used on the Internet, intranets, and local client systems. VRML is also intended to be a universal interchange format for integrated 3D graphics and multimedia. VRML may be used in a variety of application areas such as engineering and scientific visualization, multimedia presentations, entertainment and educational titles, web pages, and shared virtual worlds.
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More Information OIL|Ontology Interchange Language Ontology Interchange Language
OIL is a proposal for a web-based representation and inference layer for ontologies, which combines the widely used modeling primitives from frame-based languages with the formal semantics and reasoning services provided by description logics.
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More Information CIML, NAML|Customer Identity / Name and Address Markup Language Customer Identity / Name and Address Markup Language
The format is no longer supported and has been replaced by xNL, xAL.

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More Information MDL|Meaning Definition Language Meaning Definition Language
MDL is a language which tries to act as a bridge between XML structure and meaning expressed precisely, in XML. It defines how the structures of an XML document (elements, attributes and XPaths) convey meanings (about objects, properties and associations).

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More Information RML|Relational Markup Language Relational Markup Language
RML is an XML-based language used by Roam and its industry partners. Roam is a wireless software and service provider which helps companies move online business onto any handheld wireless device, such as mobile phones and PDAs
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More Information MatML|Materials Property Data Markup Language Materials Property Data Markup Language
The MatML effort is addressing the problems of interpretation and interoperability through the development of an XML for materials data that will permit the storage, transmission, and processing of materials property data distributed via the World Wide Web.
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Access the specification ... NCIP|NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol
NCIP defines a repertoire of messages and associated rules of syntax and semantics for use by applications to:
(1) perform the functions necessary to lend items;
(2) provide controlled access to electronic resources;
(3) facilitate co-operative management of these functions.
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Access the specification ... GovML|Governmental Markup Language Governmental Markup Language
GovML will be specified as a recommendation for a new XML vocabulary that will define and support particular data structures, which are necessary to support the life-event approach towards the delivery of online public services.
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More Information EML|Election Markup Language Election Markup Language
EML is a reliable, accurate and trusted XML specification for the structured interchange of data among hardware, software and service vendors who provide election systems and services.
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More Information PIXIT|PEO Interchange XML Initiative PEO Interchange XML Initiative
PIXIT aims to support and enable synergy between several Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps command and control (C2) PEOs with respect to XML use.
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More Information CWMI|OMG Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange
OMG Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange
The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) is a specification that describes metadata interchange among data warehousing, business intelligence, knowledge management and portal technologies.

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More Information MDA|OMG Model Driven Architecture OMG Model Driven Architecture
The MDA defines an approach to IT system specification that separates the specification of system functionality from the specification of the implementation of that functionality on a specific technology platform. To this end, the MDA defines an architecture for models that provides a set of guidelines for structuring specifications expressed as models.

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More Information MPML|Multimodal Presentation Markup Language Multimodal Presentation Markup Language
MPML is a language developed to enable the description of multimodal presentation based on character agents in easier way
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Access the specification ... DIDL|MPEG-21 Part 2: Digital Item Declaration Language MPEG-21 Part 2: Digital Item Declaration Language
Digital Items are defined as structured digital objects, including a standard representation and identification, and meta-data. This entity is the fundamental unit of distribution and transaction within the MPEG-21 framework as a whole; it has, however, no further technical meaning.
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Access the specification ... PGML|Precision Graphics Markup Language Precision Graphics Markup Language
PGML is a 2D scalable graphics language designed to meet both the simple vector graphics needs of casual users and the precision needs of graphics artists. PGML uses the imaging model common to the PostScript language and Portable Document Format (PDF); it also contains additional features to satisfy the needs of Web applications.
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More Information IML|Image Markup Language Image Markup Language
IML is an XML application for describing the content and applications handled by a Simputer. The goal of IML is to enable handheld computers, (that have limitations in the display size and input capabilities), to access and render content from the Internet.
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More Information XIL|various expansions various expansions
The acronym has various expansions
a) XML Integrator Language
b) Xineo XIL: (XML Import Language) is an XML language for transforming various record-based data sources into XML documents, and provides a fully functional XIL processing implementation. This implementation has built-in support for relational (via JDBC) and structured text (like CSV) sources, and is extensible thanks to its public API, allowing dynamic integration of new data source implementations.
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More Information XL|XML Programming Language XML Programming Language
XL is an XML programming language designed for the implementation of Web services. XL is portable and fully compliant with W3C standards such as XQuery , XML Protocol , and XML Schema . One of the key features of XL is that it allows programmers to concentrate on the logic of their application. XL provides high-level and declarative constructs for actions which are typically carried out in the implementation of a Web service; e.g., logging, error handling, retry of actions, workload management, events, etc. Issues such as performance tuning (e.g., caching, horizontal partitioning, etc.) should be carried out automatically by an implementation of the language. This way, the productivity of the programmers, the ability of evolution of the programs, and the chances to achieve good performance are substantially enhanced. HEML|Historical Event Markup and Linking Historical Event Markup and Linking
The HEML project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet.
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Access the specification ... xNL, xAL|xNAL Name and Address Standard xNAL Name and Address Standard
With the advent of XML as a defacto standard for representing data, OASIS has developed an application independent XML standard for name and address data management xNAL. xNAL does not include all the address components throughout the world. But that is where the power of XML comes into play. It is extensively scalable and extendable allowing xNAL to evolve as more additional components are identified. xNAL is broken into two components namely: xNL and xAL.
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Access the specification ... tML|Telecommunications Markup Language Telecommunications Markup Language
tML, an application of XML, is being considered for use in the TMN architecture primarily due to its flexibility for structured information definition.
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Access the specification ... MAGE-ML|MicroArray and Gene Expression Markup Language MicroArray and Gene Expression Markup Language
The MAGE-ML model defines the elements for supporting gene expression data. Because the exchange of gene expression data can be abstracted from the source from which it was obtained, it can be represented by XML files, which are both human readable and machine readable.
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Access the specification ... XQuery|An XML Query Language|XML Query
An XML Query Language
XML is a versatile markup language, capable of labeling the information content of diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. A query language that uses the structure of XML intelligently can express queries across all these kinds of data, whether physically stored in XML or viewed as XML via middleware.
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Access the specification ... VocML|Vocabulary Markup Language Vocabulary Markup Language
VocML is a XML DTD/Schema which will support the structured representation of a wide range of KOS resources, including authority files, hierarchical thesauri (including those with polyhierarchies), classification schemes, digital gazetteers, and subject heading lists
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Access the specification ... XPDL|XML Process Definition Language XML Process Definition Language
XPDL forms a common interchange standard that enables products to continue to support arbitrary internal representations of process definitions with an import/export function to map to/from the standard at the product boundary.
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Access the specification ... gbXML|Green Building XML Green Building XML
gbXML was developed to facilitate the transfer of building information essential to designing resource efficient buildings. XML is a type of computer language that allows intelligent programs to communicate information with no human interaction. This approach allows building designers to focus on what they want to - designing beautiful buildings that will meet their owner's needs with minimal cost and environmental impact with intelligent computer applications.
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More Information DNF|UK Digital National Framework UK Digital National Framework
DNF data is designed for use as an intelligent digital map within geographical information systems and database systems. In DNF data there is a closer correspondence between data features and discrete real-world objects than has been the case in previous generations of Ordnance Survey products.
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Access the specification ... PPML|Personalized Print Markup Language Personalized Print Markup Language
The main purpose of the PPML language, compared to most earlier languages, is to provide object-level addressability and reusability.
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Access the specification ... SGF|Structured Graph Format Structured Graph Format
SGF is an XML compliant markup language based on structured graphs, for capturing Web sites' structure
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Access the specification ... WSE|Web Service Enhancements
Web Service Enhancements
Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET provides advanced Web services functionality for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft .NET Framework developers to support the latest Web services capabilities. Enterprise ready applications can be developed quickly with the support of security features such as digital signature and encryption, message routing capabilities, and the ability to include message attachments that are not serialized into XML. Functionality is based on the WS-Security, WS-Routing, WS-Attachments and DIME specifications.
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More Information CPEX|Customer Profile Exchange Customer Profile Exchange
The CPEX specification is a new standard that takes into account the traditional customer-facing facets of an enterprise, such as customer support, call centers, sales tracking, marketing campaigns and order tracking.
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Access the specification ... STAR|Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail
STAR is a non-profit, auto industry-wide initiative to create voluntary IT standards for how manufacturers, dealers, and customers communicate with each other. This will result in lower costs, more accurate and timely data, and increased levels of customer satisfaction.
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More Information UBL|Universal Business Language Universal Business Language
The purpose of the UBL vocabulary is it to act as a 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.
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Access the specification ... XBDL|UN/CEFACT XML Business Document Library Project UN/CEFACT XML Business Document Library Project
The XBDL project team is a group of experts with broad knowledge in the area of Electronic Business (ebXML, UN/EDIFACT, and national EDI/eBusiness), ebXML Core Components, semantic and context related development.
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More Information DRIVE|DISA Registry Initiative DISA Registry Initiative
DRIVE is a program to deploy the technology outlined in the ebXML specifications for a standard online index of items needed by companies to do business in particular industries.
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More Information GCI|Global Commerce Initiative Global Commerce Initiative
GCI is a voluntary body created in October 1999 to improve the performance of the international supply chain for consumer goods through the collaborative development and endorsement of recommended standards and key business processes.
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More Information COE|DII Common Operating Environment DII Common Operating Environment
COE provides a framework for developing and fielding DoD systems that meet the needs of the warfighter in a global information environment
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Access the specification ... DTB|NISO Digital Talking Books NISO Digital Talking Books
DTB are for blind, visually impaired, physically handicapped, learning-disabled, or otherwise print-disabled readers. Its purpose is to ensure interoperability across service organizations and vendors providing content and playback systems to the target population.
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Access the specification ... XrML|Extensible Rights Markup Language Extensible Rights Markup Language
XrML 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.
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More Information ODRL|Open Digital Rights Language Open Digital Rights Language
ODRL is a proposed language for the digital rights management community for the standardisation of expressing rights information over content. The ODRL is intended to provide flexible and interoperable mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of digital resources in publishing, distributing and consuming of electronic publications, digital images, audio and movies, learning objects, computer software and other creations in digital form
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Access the specification ... XACML|Extensible Access Control Markup Language Extensible Access Control Markup Language
XACML is an XML specification for expressing policies for information access over the Internet. XACML design is taking place within the OASIS technical committee.
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More Information ITML|Information Technology Markup Language Information Technology Markup Language
ITML is a set of specifications of protocols, message formats and best practices in the ASP and ASP aggregation market to provide seamless integration of partners and business processes. It is based upon open-standards, particularly XML and HTTP. It is an implementation of the ITML Messaging and Protocol Specification.
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More Information EPP|Extensible Provisioning Protocol Extensible Provisioning Protocol
EPP is an XML text protocol that permits multiple service providers to perform object provisioning operations using a shared central object repository.
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Access the specification ... XCBF|XML Common Biometric Format XML Common Biometric Format
The XCBF defines a common set of secure XML encodings for the patron formats specified in CBEFF
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More Information S2ML|Security Services Markup Language Security Services Markup Language
S2ML is a protocol for two security services: authentication and authorization. The protocol consists of request and response pairs of XML documents for each service.
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More Information XACL|XML Access Control Language XML Access Control Language
XACL is used to specify an object-subject-action-condition oriented policy in the context of a particular XML document. The notion of subject comprises identity, group, and role. The granularity of object can be as fine as the one of XML nodes within the document though the current version is restricted to elements and attributes. Currently, there are four possible actions (read, write, create and delete), but the structure of the language is not limited to these.
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More Information DOMHASH|Digest Values for DOM Digest Values for DOM
DOMHASH are digest (hash) values of XML objects

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Access the specification ... SDML|Signed Document Markup Language Signed Document Markup Language
SDML is the generic document structuring and signing part of the FSML.
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More Information FSML|Financial Services Markup Language Financial Services Markup Language
FSML is an SGML like mark-up language designed to allow the creation of electronic financial documents. FSML can be used for several applications. One is to create, and sign generic financial (or even non-financial) documents. Another, more specific application, is to create, and process Electronic Checks, and their associated documents. One chapter will describe the use of FSML for generic documents.
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More Information OSD|Open Software Description Format Open Software Description Format
OSD an application of XML, is a vocabulary used for describing software packages and their dependencies for heterogeneous clients.
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Access the specification ... LOGML|Log Markup Language Log Markup Language
LOGML is an XML application for describing Log Reports of Web servers.
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More Information XLF|Extensible Log Format Extensible Log Format
XLF is a set of DTD fragments, recommendations and API's intended to provide a complete, open, interoperable, and extensible logging infrastructure
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More Information ALURe|Aggregation and Logging of User Requests Aggregation and Logging of User Requests
ALURe defines a grammatical standard to satisfy the above requirement. ALURe can be used by User Assistance Systems to communicate how users arrive, and expect to arrive, at a solution using an application's User Assistance System in real time.
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More Information XDNL|XML Document Navigation Language XML Document Navigation Language
With the diversity of accessing devices, WWW content needs to be designed for both PC and non-PC devices, so that it can be appropriately navigated and rendered by each type of devices. This note focuses on the navigation of content which helps the user to easily browse a huge document on relatively small devices. The general idea of navigation is explained, and a new language, the XML Document Navigation Language (XDNL) was proposed.
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More Information DRP|HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol
The DRP was designed to efficiently replicate a hierarchical set of files to a large number of clients. No assumption is made about the content or type of the files; they are simply files in some hierarchical organization
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More Information BSML|Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language
BSML is an extensible language specification and container for bioinformatic data.
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Access the specification ... BIOML|BIOpolymer Markup Language BIOpolymer Markup Language
BIOML would allow the full specification of all experimental information known about molecular entities composed of biopolymers, such as proteins and genes. There is currently no generalized method of annotating biopolymer sequences. The goal of BIOML is to provide an extensible framework for this annotation and to provide a common vehicle for exchanging this information between biological scientists using the World Wide Web.
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Access the specification ... OPX|Open Philanthropy Exchange Open Philanthropy Exchange
OPX was founded to help the philanthropic community make effective use of the growing number of technology opportunities currently available. OPX provides a standard for formatting and exchanging digital information about donors, gifts, volunteers, members and events. By using a common data format, nonprofit organizations and service providers can streamline communications between Web sites and back-office databases. Software applications with incompatible formats can use OPX to transfer information using a common language.
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More Information IFX|Interactive Financial Exchange Interactive Financial Exchange
IFX is a non-profit organization that is open for worldwide participation, and was founded to provide a wide variety of benefits for financial services companies, service providers, information technology companies and the customers of each. The IFX Forum focuses on providing leadership, structure, and process for the development, promotion, use and adoption of the IFX Specification, which defines the business message format and transmission protocol for the electronic exchange of data.
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More Information FpML|Financial Products Markup Language Financial Products Markup Language
FpML is a business information exchange standard for electronic dealing and processing of financial derivatives instruments. It establishes a new protocol for sharing information on, and dealing in, financial derivatives over the Internet. It is based on XML and initially focuses on interest rate swaps and Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs).
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Access the specification ... TWIST|Treasury Workstation Integration Standards Team Treasury Workstation Integration Standards Team
TWIST is a not-for-profit industry group delivering non-proprietary integration standards to facilitate an efficient, controlled and open dealing marketplace for financial instruments. TWIST aims to allow organisations to implement effective and controlled straight through processing with single points of data entry, throughout their internal and external trade life cycles. Therefore TWIST develops practical standards that allow market participants to communicate with each-other, using a combination of direct links, external service providers and internal systems in the process of preparation, negotiation, execution, settlement and reporting of transactions.
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More Information MDDL|Market Data Definition Language Market Data Definition Language
MDDL is the XML derived specification to enable the interchange of information necessary to account for, to analyze, and to trade financial instruments of the world's markets. MDDL defines a common vocabulary and exchange format to facilitate the interaction between exchanges, vendors, redistributors, and consumers.
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More Information MDML|Market Data Markup Language Market Data Markup Language
MDML is attempting to solve a narrow range of problems specific to the delivery and representation of real-time market data. There are a few services a deployment of MDML should take advantage of in order to build a robust and secure market data delivery service. These services have been left out of MDML itself because there are industry standard implementations available.
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More Information WeatherML|Weather Markup Language Weather Markup Language
WeatherML will be XML-based and consist initially of a single document type definition (DTD), which can be used for the description of a weather derivatives de.
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Access the specification ... RIXML|Research Information Exchange Markup Language Research Information Exchange Markup Language
RixML is an open industry standard, created by the RIXML.org consortium. Its mission is to define an open protocol to improve the process of categorizing, aggregating, comparing, sorting, and distributing global financial research.
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Access the specification ... daliML|Data Link for Intermediaries Markup Language Data Link for Intermediaries Markup Language
daliML is a XML-based protocol for Internet-based electronic sharing of withholding and payment information.
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More Information MAML|Microarray Markup Language Microarray Markup Language
The format is no longer supported and has been replace by MAGE-ML. GeneXML|GeneX Gene Expression Markup Language GeneX Gene Expression Markup Language
GeneXML is an XML specification that supports the logical representation of the data so that partial or complete datasets from different Gene Expression Databases can be exchanged without loss of information.
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Access the specification ... MSAML|XML for Multiple Sequence Alignments XML for Multiple Sequence Alignments
MSAML is a set of XML compliant markup components for describing multiple sequence alignments
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Access the specification ... SBML|Systems Biology Markup Language Systems Biology Markup Language
SBML is intended to be a common XML-based format for encoding systems biology models in a simple form that software tools can use as an exchange format.
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Access the specification ... PROXIML|Protein Extensible Markup Language Protein Extensible Markup Language
PROXIML is an extension of the CML Schema and can encode the relevant details of protein structure in a more robust and well-structured fashion than other currently available data formats.
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Access the specification ... VHG|Virtual Hyperglossary Virtual Hyperglossary
VHG is a novel, simple approach to increasing knowledge creation and retrieval on the Web
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Access the specification ... OMF|Weather Observation Definition Format Weather Observation Definition Format
OMF is an application of XML to describe a particular kind of documents: weather observation reports
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Access the specification ... DCMI|Dublin Core Metadata Initiative|DC Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DCMI is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.
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More Information OAMS|Open Archives Metadata Set Open Archives Metadata Set
Open Archives Metadata Set describes a collection of metadata elements used in the Santa Fe Convention.
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Access the specification ... PRISM|Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata
PRISM specification defines a standard for interoperable content description, interchange, and reuse in both traditional and electronic publishing contexts. PRISM recommends the use of certain existing standards, such as XML, RDF , the Dublin Core , and various ISO specifications for locations, languages, and date/time formats. Beyond those recommendations, it defines a small number of XML namespaces and controlled vocabularies of values, in order to meet the goals listed above
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Access the specification ... XGMML|Extensible Graph Markup and Modeling Language Extensible Graph Markup and Modeling Language
XGMML is an XML application based on GML which is used for graph description. XGMML uses tags to describe nodes and edges of a graph. The purpose of XGMML is to make possible the exchange of graphs between differents authoring and browsing tools for graphs. The conversion of graphs written in GML to XGMML is trivial. Using XSL with XGMML allows the translation of graphs to different formats. XGMML was created to be used for the WWWPAL System that visualizes web sites as a graph. Web Robots can navigate through a web site and save the graph information as an XGMML file. XGMML, as any other XML application, can be mixed with other markup languages to describe additional graph, node and/or edge information.
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Access the specification ... xvif|XML Validation Interoperability Framework XML Validation Interoperability Framework
XML Validation Interoperability Framework is a proposal to embed pipe definitions in grammar based schema languages such as Relax NG (and probably W3C XML Schema).

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More Information GXL|Graph Exchange Language Graph Exchange Language
GXL is designed to be a standard exchange format for graphs.
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Access the specification ... PNML|Petri Net Markup Language Petri Net Markup Language
PNML is a preliminary proposal of an XML-based interchange format for Petri nets. Originally, the PNML was intended to serve as a file format for the Java version of the PetriNetKernel. But, it turned out that currently several other groups are developing an XML-based interchange format too. So, the PNML is only one contribution to the ongoing discussion and to the standardization efforts of an XML-based format.
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Access the specification ... TIGERS|Tax Information Group for ECommerce Requirements Standardization Tax Information Group for ECommerce Requirements Standardization
TIGERS is a Work Group of Task Group 2, and it has been chartered to discuss matters relating to business standards and practices surrounding national tax data formatting and transfer, and develops and maintains tax electronic technical format standards for a variety of tax filing and other related government electronic reporting or data exchange applications.
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Access the specification ... XCI|New Mexico District Court XML Interface New Mexico District Court XML Interface
XCI design is based on the premise that closed, proprietary systems are not acceptable. Such systems are expensive (for the litigants, attorneys, and/or the courts) and lock courts into technologies that are difficult to enhance as better alternatives become available. Without a standard, different jurisdictions will have vastly different approaches, and attorneys and law firms will be far more reluctant to train on multiple electronic filing systems
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Access the specification ... WSP|Web Standards Project Web Standards Project
WSP fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web
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Access the specification ... JAXM|Java API for XML Messaging Java API for XML Messaging
JAXM enables developers to write business applications that support messaging standards based on the SOAP1.1 and SOAP with Attachments specifications.
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More Information JAX-RPC|Java API for XML-Based RPC|Helma Java API for XML-Based RPC
The RPC mechanism enables a remote procedure call from a client to be communicated to a remote server. An example use of an RPC mechanism is in a distributed client/server model. A server defines a service as a collection of procedures that are callable by remote clients. A client calls procedures to access service defined by the server.
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More Information JAXP|Java API for XML Processing Java API for XML Processing
In many ways, XML and the Java Platform are a partnership made in heaven. XML defines a cross platform data format and Java provides a standard cross platform programming platform. Together, XML and Java technologies allow programmers to apply Write Once, Run Anywhere fundamentals to the processing of data and documents generated by both Java based programs and non-Java based programs.
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More Information JAXB|Java Architecture for XML Binding Java Architecture for XML Binding
JAXB technology provides capability to validate the accuracy of the data using the validation constraints of a schema that describes the data collected from the form.
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More Information JAXR|Java API for XML Registries Java API for XML Registries
JAXR provides a uniform and standard API for accessing such registries within the Java platform.
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More Information SAAJ|SOAP with Attachments API for Java SOAP with Attachments API for Java
SAAJ enables developers to produce and consume messages conforming to the SOAP1.1 specification and SOAP with Attachments note.
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More Information JDOM|Java DOM Java DOM
JDOM is a Java API for processing XML documents that's both simple and convenient. At a high level, it's similar to the DOM, but since JDOM was designed specifically for Java rather than for multiple languages, it feels much more natural and right to Java programmers.
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More Information SAX|Simple API for XML Simple API for XML
SAX is a common interface implemented for many different XML parsers (and things that pose as XML parsers), just as the JDBC is a common interface implemented for many different relational databases (and things that pose as relational databases).
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More Information DOM4J|DOM for Java DOM for Java
dom4j is a object model representing an XML Tree in memory. dom4j offers a easy-to-use API that provides a powerfull set of features to process, manipulate or navigate XML and work with XPath and XSLT as well as integrate with SAX, JAXP and DOM.
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More Information XForms|XForms XForms
XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. By splitting traditional XHTML forms into three parts: XForms model, instance data, and user interface. It separates presentation from content, allows reuse, gives strong typing reducing the number of round-trips to the server, as well as offering device independence and a reduced need for scripting.
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Access the specification ... ORM-ML|STARLab ORM Markup Language STARLab ORM Markup Language
ORM-ML allows the representation of any ORM schema without loss of information or change in semantics, except for the geometry and topology (graphical layout) of the schema (e.g. location, shapes of the symbols), which we however easily may provide as a separate graphical style sheet to the ORM Schema.
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More Information SyncML|Synchronization Markup Language Synchronization Markup Language
SyncML is a new industry initiative to develop and promote a single, common data synchronization protocol that can be used industry-wide. Driving the initiative are Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Motorola, Nokia, Palm Inc., Psion and Starfish Software. SyncML initiative is supported by several hundred leading companies in the industry, and additional companies are welcome to join the open initiative and participate.
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More Information DTD|Document Type Definition
Document Type Definition
Although the DTD has come to be called XMLspec, it is intended for W3C working drafts, notes, recommendations, and all other document types that fall under the category of technical reports.
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Access the specification ... WML|Wireless Markup Language
Wireless Markup Language
The WML2 document type is a strict superset of the XHTML Mobile Profile document type. It adds extensions to XHTML Mobile Profile for WML1 compatibility, creating a document type that is used for achieving backward compatibility with services/applications written using WML1.
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More Information IFF|Information Flow Framework Language Information Flow Framework Language
IFF is an effort to develop Information Flow: the logic of distributed systems. The Information Flow Framework celebrates the notion of a community. The standards of a community, encoded in the types and constraints of that community's ontology, represent consensual agreement within the community. The global standards of a collection of cooperating communities, encoded in the types and constraints of a common generic extensible ontology, represent the consensual agreement across communities _ a standard semantics. Community ontologies, the links between such ontologies, and the resulting virtual fusion ontologies, can all be represented with the Information Flow Framework.
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Access the specification ... SHOE|Simple HTML Ontology Extensions Simple HTML Ontology Extensions
SHOE is an extension to HTML which provides a way to incorporate machine-readable semantic knowledge in HTML or other World-Wide Web documents. SHOE can also be used with XML documents.
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Access the specification ... XMP|Extensible Metadata Platform Extensible Metadata Platform
XMP embeds metadata inside application files. Because the metadata is enclosed within the file, documents retain their context when they exit their original system or environment. The embedded metadata can include any XML schema, provided it is described in RDF syntax. Extensible, embedded metadata in application files provides significant potential for repurposing, archiving, and automation in publishing workflows.
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More Information DLML|Description Logics Markup Language Description Logics Markup Language
DLML is not a language but rather a system of DTDs that allows to encode many (if not all) description logics in the same framework. So far, it is restricted to TBox encoding.
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Access the specification ... AIML|Artificial Intelligence Markup Language Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
The Artificial Intelligence Markup Language is a derivative of XML. Its goal is to enable pattern-based, stimulus-response knowledge content to be served, received and processed on the Web and offline in the manner that is presently possible with HTML and XML. AIML has been designed for ease of implementation, ease of use by newcomers, and for interoperability with XML and XML derivatives such as XHTML.
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Access the specification ... GML|Geography Markup Language Geography Markup Language
GML is an XML encoding for the transport and storage of geographic information, including both the spatial and non-spatial properties of geographic features.
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Access the specification ... POIX|Point of Interest Exchange Language Specification Point of Interest Exchange Language Specification
POIX is a location-related information descriptive language prepared with the aim of exchanging location-related information over the Internet, and is designed with XML 1.0. Not only does POIX denote a simple location, but it also provides an environment capable of representing various information comprehensively with the targeted location
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Access the specification ... NVML|Navigation Markup Language Navigation Markup Language
NVML is a markup language for describing the navigation information ,and is defined by using the XML authorized by the W3C. NVML enables us to use a navigation service at any time and anywhere, and it will also be used in other services such as a guide service for sightseeing, a travel planning service, and a publishing service for tourists
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Access the specification ... XDF|Extensible Data Format Extensible Data Format
XDF is a common scientific data format based on general mathematical principles, object models, and XML that can be used throughout the scientific disciplines. It includes these key features: hierarchical data structures, any dimensional arrays merged with coordinate information, high dimensional tables merged with field information, variable resolution, easy wrapping of existing data, user specified coordinate systems, searchable ASCII metadata, and extensibility to new features
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Access the specification ... CharMapML|Character Mapping Markup Language Character Mapping Markup Language
By using CharMapML, implementations can be assured of providing precisely the same mappings as other implementations on different platforms
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Access the specification ... IETF|Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Engineering Task Force
International standardization body. Responsible for internet standards. The standards are published as RFCs (Request for comment). J. Postel is known as one of the key members of the IETF. Standards include the DNS standard, http, pop, ftp... protocol specifications.

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More Information IETF 'Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web'|WEBDAV WEBDAV
WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol document specifies a set of headers and methods which extend the Hypertext Transfer Protocol to provide capabilities for overwrite prevention (locking), properties, and namespace management. It provides a standard network protocol infrastructure for asynchronous collaborative authoring of a wide variety of content across the Internet.
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Access the specification ... DASL|DAV Searching and Locating DAV Searching and Locating
DASL will minimize the complexity of clients so as to facilitate widespread deployment of applications capable of utilizing the DASL search mechanisms
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Access the specification ... ADC|NASA Goddard Astronomical Data Center NASA Goddard Astronomical Data Center
The ADC is actively creating designs for the flow of data through automated pipelines from authors and journal presses into an XML archive, as well as data retrieval through the web via the XML Query Language
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Access the specification ... XSIL|Extensible Scientific Interchange Language|Xlook Extensible Scientific Interchange Language
XSIL is some basic syntactic structure for scientific data (Table, Array, Param, Time, etc), together with a mechanism to extend both the XML side and the Java object side. XSIL also offers a modular, extensible viewing platform called Xlook.
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Access the specification ... NITF|News Industry Text Format News Industry Text Format
NITF is a structural framework for the representation of news. Developed by the IPTC, an international consortium of news publishers and vendors, NITF is a set of XML and metadata vocabularies that are usable throughout the news lifecycle.
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Access the specification ... IDML|International Development Markup Language International Development Markup Language
IDML is an XML-based set of tags and rules for the types of information that are unique to the development sector. Easier cross-platform searching is only one of many benefits an IDML will bring to the development community. IDML can be used as a transfer format to enable different institutions to exchange information, to contribute to multi-institution information collections or to connect internal systems to a public web site.
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Access the specification ... XRL|Exchangeable Routing Language Exchangeable Routing Language
Commerce on the Internet is still seriously hindered by the lack of a common language for collaborative commercial activities. Although XML allows trading partners to exchange semantic information electronically, it does not provide support for document routing. Since XML is becoming a major international standard, it is understood widely. The routing schema in XRL can be used to support flexible routing of documents in the Internet environment.
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More Information BRML|Business Rules Markup Language Business Rules Markup Language
BRML is an XML Rule Interlingua for Agent Communication, based on Courteous/Ordinary Logic Programs. It is used in connection with CommonRules from IBM, and was developed in connection with IBM's Business Rules for E-Commerce Project. A related proposal is given in the Agent Communication Markup Language, a new XML version of FIPA standards-draft Agent Communication Language.
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More Information SMI|XML for Exchange of Structure and Identification of Management Information XML for Exchange of Structure and Identification of Management Information
The SMI memo describes how XML can be used to exchange SMIv1, SMIv2 and SMIng definitions between XML enabled applications. The DTD defined in this memo allows applications with embedded generic XML parsers to read (or edit) the original SMI definitions. The XML DTD is optimized for this purpose. Terseness of the XML output was of minimal importance since humans are expected to read the originial SMI definitions. In fact, the XML format of an SMI module is significantly longer compared to the original SMI definition. This is inline with the design goals for XML, which favours computer readability over terseness
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More Information OSP|Open Settlement Protocol Open Settlement Protocol
ETSI is a not for profit organization whose mission is to produce the telecommunications standards that will be used for decades to come throughout Europe and beyond.
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More Information DSML|Directory Services Markup Language Directory Services Markup Language
DSMLv1 provides a means for representing directory structural information as an XML document. DSMLv2 goes further, providing a method for expressing directory queries and updates (and the results of these operations) as XML documents. DSMLv2 documents can be used in a variety of ways. For instance, they can be written to files in order to be consumed and produced by programs, or they can be transported over HTTP to and from a server that interprets and generates them.
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More Information BEEP|Blocks eXtensible eXchange Protocol Framework Blocks eXtensible eXchange Protocol Framework
BEEP is a new Internet standards-track protocol framework for new Internet applications. APEX is an emerging relaying service for Internet applications. beepcore is a library for developing BEEP-enabled applications. And beepcore.org is the web site for the growing community of BEEP developers
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Access the specification ... ADML|Architecture Description Markup Language Architecture Description Markup Language
ADML has been used by MCC in collaboration with The Open Group to develop a proof of concept for a Building Blocks Description Language (BBDL). The Open Group intends this work program to provide a means of defining architectural building blocks in a way that allows their interactions with other building blocks to be captured, and that allows real products to be conformance tested and procured to fulfil the defined functions
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Access the specification ... ThML|Theological Markup Language Theological Markup Language
ThML is a markup language for theological texts designed for use in the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), a library of classic Christian texts on the Internet. ThML is designed to meet the requirements outlined above. It borrows some elements from TEI, and it is designed to have all of the capabilities of STEP (version 0.9). ThML is an XML application, so ThML documents can be used directly with next-generation web browsers. These are programmable, so stylesheets and scripting languages will be able to add functionality such as that described above as well as format for display or printing on various devices. It will also be possible to convert ThML documents to other formats such as HTML webs, plain text files, PDF, RTF, and others. ThML documents can be prepared with an XML editor, a plain text editor, or in Microsoft Word using a template and converting to ThML automatically.
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Access the specification ... XSEM|XML Scripture Encoding Model XML Scripture Encoding Model
XSEM is a markup standard that reflects the structure of a particular type of literature, Scripture. More properly, it is a data schema. A data schema defines the structure of a specific data set, in this case, the Bible. It allows Bible text to be encoded in a standard way regardless of the language the text may be written in. This benefits all by allowing a more standardized approach to translating and publishing Scripture
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Access the specification ... OSIS|Open Scriptural Information Standard Open Scriptural Information Standard
OSIS has been designed to provide the beginning user with a set of elements sufficient to encode a standard Bible text and yet retain a reasonable learning curve. Additional modules, which extend the OSIS schema to meet the requirements of publishers, translators and scholars are now in the planning stages
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Access the specification ... XML for FAX|XML-F XML-F
The XML-F interface provides a simple framework for software applications to use in employing a network fax service to send an electronic document to a terminating fax machine
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More Information EFS|Electronic Form System Electronic Form System
The goal of the EFS is to define a basic, extensible file format for forms and surveys. This standard is geared toward electronic forms and web browsers, but an EFS form could concievably be printed out on paper, faxed, compiled on a disk, or placed into a telephone answering system. While EFS is about human interface to databases, EFS does not specify schemes for storing or presenting form data
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Access the specification ... MATE|Multilevel Annotation, Tools Engineering Multilevel Annotation, Tools Engineering
MATE is a markup language for describing poken language dialogues.

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Access the specification ... CELLAR|Computing Environment for Linguistic, Literary, and Anthropological Research Computing Environment for Linguistic, Literary, and Anthropological Research
CELLAR is an object-oriented database system that is being developed by the Academic Computing Department of SIL to meet the data management needs of our field workers. Two of its special features are the ability to cope simultaneously with data in many languages, and design which separates the conceptual model of a data set from multiple (interchangeable) views for display and encoding formats for import and export. While important aspects of the design were motivated by the needs of linguistic research, the system is fully programmable and can be used to develop text-related (as opposed to number crunching) applications for any discipline
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Access the specification ... XTML|Extensible Telephony Markup Language Extensible Telephony Markup Language
XTML is an XML-based service description language and associated service execution framework that provides a unified approach for delivering next-generation enhanced telecommunications services. The objective of this document is to describe the goals of the XTML architecture, to describe the architecture itself, and to define the requirements that must be met by conforming XTML applications and application servers. This document is intended to provide only a high-level overview of XTML.
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Access the specification ... JSML|Java Speech Markup Language|JSpeech Java Speech Markup Language
JSML is a text format used by applications to annotate text input to speech synthesizers. JSML elements provide a speech synthesizer with detailed information on how to speak text and thus enable improvements in the quality, naturalness and understandability of synthesized speech output. JSML defines elements that describe the structure of a document, provide pronunciations of words and phrases, indicate phrasing, emphasis, pitch and speaking rate, and control other important speech characteristics. JSML is designed to be simple to learn and use, to be portable across different synthesizers and computing platforms, and to applicable to a wide range of languages.
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Access the specification ... PMXML|Project Management XML Schema Project Management XML Schema
PMXML is the standard XML definition for project data. The goal of the XML schema design is to enable project management tools talk and thus understand each other; as a result (is it maintained) they can exchange information regarding task and project status, resource assignments, additional project attributes, and the work involved to complete these projects.
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Access the specification ... CCXML|Voice Browser Call Control Voice Browser Call Control
CCXML has been designed to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML system. Because of this you will find many references to VoiceXML's capabilities and limitations. You will also find details on how VoiceXML and CCXML can be integrated. However it should be noted that the two languages are separate and are not required in an implementation of either language. For example CCXML could be integrated with a more traditional IVR system and VoiceXML or other dialog systems could be integrated with some other call control systems.
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Access the specification ... CPL|Call Processing Language Call Processing Language
CPL is a language that can be used to describe and control Internet telephony services. It is designed to be implementable on either network servers or user agent servers. It is meant to be simple, extensible, easily edited by graphical clients, and independent of operating system or signalling protocol. It is suitable for running on a server where users may not be allowed to execute arbitrary programs, as it has no variables, loops, or ability to run external programs
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Access the specification ... SIF|Schools Interoperability Framework Schools Interoperability Framework
SIF's objective is to provide interoperability by defining a common format for the data that needs to be shared among applications (like student demographics, attendance information, grades etc.) and defining a protocol for these applications to interact with one another. The goal of this standard is to move the entire education industry from it's current state of "application islands" to one where all applications plug and play together and allow open access to their data for creating reports at the district, state and federal levels using internet technologies
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Access the specification ... TML|Tutorial Markup Language Tutorial Markup Language
TML has similar aims to HTML It is designed to separate the semantic content of a question from its screen layout or formatting. The language is designed to support several different types of question within the same content model. It is essentially a super-set of HTML
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Access the specification ... JDF|Job Definition Format Job Definition Format
JDF is an open, extensible, XML-based format built upon the existing technologies of CIP3's Print Production Format (PPF) and Adobe's Portable Job Ticket Format (PJTF). JDF has the ability to unify the pre-press, press, and post-press aspects of any printing job. It also provides the means to bridge the communication gap between production services and Management Information Systems (MIS). JDF is also able to carry out both of these functions no matter what system architecture is already in place, and no matter what tools are being used to complete the job. JDF works in tandem with a counterpart format known as the Job Messaging Format, or JMF.
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Access the specification ... DDML|Document Definition Markup Language Document Definition Markup Language
DDML is deliberately simple, providing an initial base for implementations. While introducing as few complicating factors as possible, DDML has been designed with future extensions, such as data typing and schema reuse, in mind
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Access the specification ... NFF|Notes Flat File Format Notes Flat File Format
NFF is an XML based interchange format for the Lotus Notes/Domino platform. The NFF DTD supports the majority of the constructs that can occur in Lotus Notes data such as structured fields, rich text, doclinks, import objects and so on. Once data is in XML conforming to the NFF DTD it can be imported using an import filter into Lotus Notes using a simple File-Import
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More Information ESI|Edge Side Includes Edge Side Includes
ESI is an XML-based markup language that provides a means to assemble resources in HTTP clients. Unlike other in-markup languages, ESI is designed to leverage client tools like caches to improve end-user perceived performance, reduce processing overhead on the origin server, and enhanced availability. ESI allows for dynamic content assembly at the edge of the network, whether it is in a Content Delivery Network, end-user's browser, or in a Reverse Proxy right next to the origin server
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More Information DCD|Document Content Description for XML Document Content Description for XML
The DCD proposal incorporates a subset of the XML-Data Submission and expresses it in a way which is consistent with the ongoing W3C RDF effort; in particular, DCD is an RDF vocabulary. DCD is intended to define document constraints in an XML syntax; these constraints may be used in the same fashion as traditional XML DTDs. DCD also provides additional properties, such as basic datatypes
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Access the specification ... OPES|IETF Working Group for Open Pluggable Edge Services IETF Working Group for Open Pluggable Edge Services
OPES enables network services that run on intermediary located in the network, preferably at its edges. Proxylets are programs, developed in a language tailored to the specific intermediary element, which executes on the intermediary and performs actions when a pre-defined condition or pre-defined sets of conditions are met. These conditions are expressed as rules using IRML. Proxylets can be pre-installed on the intermediaries through administrative means, downloaded/fetched to/by the intermediaries or administration devices using the proxylet meta-data.
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Access the specification ... LOTP|Layered Object Transport Protocol Layered Object Transport Protocol
LOTP is still in experimental stages. It may evolved into an deployed generalized XML protocol or it may be used as a learning experience for designing another protocol. It is drawn largely from SOAP and I'd like to see the LOTP advantages ported back to SOAP . LOTP uses a separate name and namespace for the LOTP protocol to prevent collisions with the current SOAP protocol.
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Access the specification ... BPML|Business Process Modeling Language Business Process Modeling Language
The BPML specification provides an abstract model and XML syntax for expressing executable business processes and supporting entities. BPML itself does not define any application semantics such as particular processes or application of processes in a specific domain; rather it defines an abstract model and grammar for expressing generic processes. This allows BPML to be used for a variety of purposes that include, but are not limited to, the definition of enterprise business processes, the definition of complex Web services, and the definition of multi-party collaborations. This version of the BPML specification deals specifically with executable business processes.
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Access the specification ... xCBL|XML Common Business Library XML Common Business Library
xCBL is the pre-eminent XML component library for business-to-business e-commerce. This standard is created, maintained, and supported for use - free of charge - by anyone needing document definitions for their e-commerce applications.
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Access the specification ... UCLP|Universal Commerce Language and Protocol Universal Commerce Language and Protocol
UCLP is an XML-compliant schema for tagging metadata that can be used in identifying and retrieving data residing across the Internet. The tags provide a base level of data typing while allowing industry-specific names to be defined as necessary to describe those properties and attributes which a user needs when discriminating among available choices. The introduction of data typing has been discussed as a needed extension to the XML 1.0 Recommendation, but UCLP is intended to introduce a new paradigm for dynamic data tagging for which data typing is only a required tool.
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Access the specification ... SOX|Schema for Object-oriented XML Schema for Object-oriented XML
SOX provides an alternative to XML DTDs for modeling markup relationships to enable more efficient software development processes for distributed applications. SOX also provides basic intrinsic datatypes, an extensible datatyping mechanism, content model and attribute interface inheritance, a powerful namespace mechanism, and embedded documentation. As compared to XML DTDs, SOX dramatically decreases the complexity of supporting interoperation among heterogenous applications by facilitating software mapping of XML data structures, expressing domain abstractions and common relationships directly and explicitly, enabling reuse at the document design and the application programming levels, and supporting the generation of common application components
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Access the specification ... XBEL|The XML Bookmark Exchange Language The XML Bookmark Exchange Language
XBEL is a rich interchange format for bookmark data as used by most Internet browsers.
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Access the specification ... SALT|Speech Application Language Tags Speech Application Language Tags
Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) 1.0 is an extension of HTML and other markup languages (cHTML, XHTML, WML, etc.) which adds a speech and telephony interface to web applications and services, for both voice only (e.g. telephone) and multimodal browsers.
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Access the specification ... XincaML|eXtensible Inter-Nodes Constraint Mark-up Language eXtensible Inter-Nodes Constraint Mark-up Language
The XincaML language can describe the presence or value dependencies amongst nodes located on different branches of an XML tree. It can specify constraints that can't be expressed by the XML schema language and therefore supplement the existing XML schema language to insure the integrity of data. XincaML is a declarative language and its syntax is based on XML format. This feature makes it easy to be used.
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Access the specification ... IDMEF|Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format
Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format
The purpose of the Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format (IDMEF) is to define data formats and exchange procedures for sharing information of interest to intrusion detection and response systems, and to the management systems which may need to interact with them.
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Access the specification ... SODL|Simple Object Definition Language Simple Object Definition Language
The Simple Object Definition Language is an XML IDL DTD which allows objects to be described in a fashion compatible with Interface Definition Language (IDL) used in COM and CORBA object systems. SODL is a simplfied XML IDL designed to be compatible with currently available and widely used non-XML IDLs. SODL allows objects to be described as well as serialized for transport across networks. These serialization/marshalling techniques can be readily integrated into Object RPC over XML transports. SODL is the DTD employed for the XML Metadata Object Persistence (XMOP) service of the XPository(tm) system. The initial implementation of XMOP (XML Metadata Object Persistance) uses the SODL 1.0 DTD and is compatible with Microsoft IDL and COM Automation objects.
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More Information WS-I|Web Services Interoperability Organization Web Services Interoperability Organization
WS-I is an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. The organization works across the industry and standards organizations to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, best practices, and resources for developing Web services solutions.
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More Information WSIA|Web Services for Interactive Applications Web Services for Interactive Applications
WSIA creates an XML and Web Services centric component model for interactive web applications.
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Access the specification ... WSRP|Web Services for Remote Portals Web Services for Remote Portals
WSRP defines a Web Service interface for accessing and interacting with user-facing, interactive presentation oriented Web Services.
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Access the specification ... AML|ASN.1 Markup Language ASN.1 Markup Language
The AML makes it possible to define values using XML markup in which the element tags are derived from the ASN.1 type names and identifiers present in an ASN.1 specification
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Access the specification ... XER|XML Encoding Rules for ASN.1 XML Encoding Rules for ASN.1
The basic idea of XER is it to standardize rules that would allow for information described in ASN.1 to be carried in XML. An XER definition specifies the equivalence and necessary conversion between appropriate ASN.1 encoded data structures and XML encoded data structures.
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Access the specification ... OOPML|Object-Oriented Programing Meta-Language Object-Oriented Programing Meta-Language
The OOPML project is a component of our Docware approach: it's goal is to define a XML development support for self-documented and sel-tested classes (with a first step in Java).
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Access the specification ... NLM|National Library of Medicine National Library of Medicine
NLM continues to refine the format that will be used for the forthcoming data creation and maintenance system and for distribution of MEDLINE data. This new XML-based format will be used when NLM offers its leased data via ftp. The new format will be a greatly expanded and somewhat modified version of the SGML-based format currently used by publishers who submit citation and abstract data electronically to NLM for entry to see PubMed ASTML|ASTM XML Document Type Definitions ASTM XML Document Type Definitions
ASTML XML DTDs are DTDs for healthcare documents. ASTM Committee E31 on Healthcare Informatics develops standards related to the architecture, content, storage, security, confidentiality, functionality, and communication of information used within healthcare and healthcare decision making, including patient-specific information and knowledge.

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Access the specification ... TDL|Template Definition Language Template Definition Language
Chips are specified in a Hardware Description Language, or HDL. Each chip, e.g. a full-adder, is represented in an HDL program, e.g. FullAdder.hdl. To debug the chip, the designer loads the HDL program into a hardware simulator and experiments with it, subjecting it to various tests. The tests can be ran interactively, using the simulator_s GUI, or batch-style, using a series of pre-defined tests specified in a script.Test scripts are written in a TDL. This document describes the subset of TDL commands designed for testing chips. Other features of TDL, designed for testing the overall CPU and the Virtual Machine, are described in separate documents.
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Access the specification ... HRMML|Human Resource Management Markup Language Human Resource Management Markup Language
HRMML is an XML-based markup language for job postings, job descriptions, and resumes. HRMML currently is described in two draft Document Type Definitions (DTDs), one for resumes and one for job postings. The two DTDs have many common elements, which are contained in shared modules
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Access the specification ... SIDES|Staffing Industry Data Exchange Standards Staffing Industry Data Exchange Standards
SIDES is a comprehensive suite of data exchange standards designed to offer new efficiencies and cost savings for staffing customers, staffing suppliers, and other stakeholders in the staffing supply chain.
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More Information KBML|The Koala Bean Markup Language The Koala Bean Markup Language
KBML is a Java library that enables the serialization of JavaBeans in XML. The Koala project has already provided such a library (KOML) which relies on java serialization to generate the XML. However this low-level approach is too close to the java serialization, and inherits the same drawbacks. IBM's BML is great, but it can only generate beans. There is currently no way to save beans in BML, in the general case. With KBML, a bean is saved as a class name with its property values. At load time, a new instance of the bean is created, and the property values are set. The mechanism is very simple, and relies completely on the bean protocol to save and load XML
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Access the specification ... JigXML|Jigsaw XML Format Jigsaw XML Format
Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation and a variety of other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java
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Access the specification ... FLBC|Formal Language for Business Communication Formal Language for Business Communication
FLBC is a formal language that can be used for automated electronic communication (e.g., EDI or agent communications). The FLBC language and the MMS both exploit linguistics throughout their design; it is this depth of integration, this usage of a wide range of influencing concepts, that is the real contribution of this system. Designing the system in accordance with the principles gleaned from linguistics has resulted in a system that is highly modular. In the design of a language, in current systems messages are handled as a whole: either a system knows how to handle an ANSI X.12 message or it does not. The module is at the level of the message for EDI systems. The FLBC breaks a message up into three major parts (the force, the content, and the context).
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Access the specification ... ABNF|Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF
Internet technical specifications often need to define a format syntax and are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem useful. Over the years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form(BNF), called Augmented BNF (ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specifications. It balances compactness and simplicity, with reasonable representational power. In the early days of the Arpanet, each specification contained its own definition of ABNF. This included the email specifications, RFC733 and then RFC822 which have come to be the common citations for defining ABNF. The current document separates out that definition, to permit selective reference. Predictably, it also provides some modifications and enhancements.
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Access the specification ... ETD-ML|Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Markup Language Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Markup Language
The Virginia Tech Graduate School requires a specific form for the submission of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) to maintain the consistency of these complex documents. The formal statement of these guidelines serves graduate students submitting ETDs, the faculty with whom they work, and scholars who study the submitted ETDs. We defined a Document Type Definition (DTD) in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) for the representation of ETDs, a logical choice for encoding complex electronic documents. To build the DTD, we analyzed constructs in existing theses and dissertations and studied the rules for their submission. Here we present definitions, annotations, and rationale for each document construct, and we explain the connection of the document constructs into an integrated DTD. The result is the description of the grammar of a new document language, the ETD-ML
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Access the specification ... XBL|The Extensible Bindings Language The Extensible Bindings Language
XBL is a markup language for describing bindings that can be attached to elements in other documents. Bindings can be attached to elements using either cascading stylesheet or the document object model. The element that the binding is attached to, called the bound element, acquires the new behavior specified by the binding. Bindings can contain event handlers that are registered on the bound element, an implementation of new methods and properties that become accessible from the bound element, and anonymous content that is inserted underneath the bound element.
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Access the specification ... UIML|User Interface Markup Language User Interface Markup Language
A language for designing user interfaces

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Access the specification ... PSL|Process Specification Language Process Specification Language
PSL defines a neutral representation for manufacturing processes. Process data is used throughout the life cycle of a product, from early indications of manufacturing process flagged during design, through process planning, validation, production scheduling and control. In addition, the notion of process also underlies the entire manufacturing cycle, coordinating the workflow within engineering and shop floor manufacturing.
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Access the specification ... AISI|American Iron and Steel Institute American Iron and Steel Institute
The primary objective of the AISI XML Workgroup is to develop standardized XML terminology to be used throughout steel related transactions documents. The task to be completed involves the translation of existing x.12 based transaction documents to XML. This process will simultaneously create a Steel XML Glossary, which can then be used throughout the industry and by developers of internet based applications for the industry. The glossary will be posted to the website as it is developed.
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More Information ETSG|Energy Trading Standards Group Energy Trading Standards Group
ETSG is an open consortium that will develop standards to automate the sale of wholesale energy and improve information sharing between energy trading companies. Consortium members to date include ABB Energy Information Systems, Automated Power Exchange (APX), Caminus Corporation, HoustonStreet Exchange, Open Link Energy, RedMeteor.com, Inc., Triple Point Technology Inc., GFInet, and Sapient. The consortium, initiated by Caminus and HoustonStreet, is open to all interested industry participants. ETSG will develop open standards based upon XML (Extensible Markup Language) technology, the lingua franca of business-to-business Internet commerce. The companies will initially create standards for exchanging data between online trading platforms and transaction/risk management systems used by wholesale electricity and natural gas trading companies.
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More Information POSC|Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation
POSC is an international not-for-profit membership corporation. It is uniquely designed to unite industry people, issues and ideas to facilitate E and P (Exploration and Production) information sharing and business process integration. POSC provides open specifications for information modeling, information management, and data and application integration over the life cycle of E and P assets. POSC is promoting the creation of standard XML document definitions (called Document Type Definitions, or DTDs for short) for use in exchanging E and P data in several domains. We currently have three active projects relating to XML: MMS data reporting; a reference data service; and a new exchange format for E and P information.
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Access the specification ... PIPE|Partner Interface Process for Energy Partner Interface Process for Energy
PIPE is an XML-based messaging protocol for the exchange of transactions among trading partners in the retail energy industry. PIPE defines the format, content, and method of the transaction exchange; along with the roles and responsibilities of the trading partners involved with that exchange. PIPE also provides support for managing and tracking the exchange. We anticipate this to be the first of several releases that will form the foundation for a set of XML standards for the retail energy industry. While many of the activities here relate to the UIG-EDI standard transaction sets, subsequent XML standards will include activities not explicitly covered by EDI such as Customer Acquisition , Partner Maintenance, and Invoice Presentment
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Access the specification ... MTML|Marine Trading Markup Language Marine Trading Markup Language
MTML is compatible with the International Marine Purchasing Association_s (IMPA) Electronic Trading Standard Format (ETSF) which was based on the UN/EDIFACT standard for electronic data interchange and has been specifically designed for electronic exchange of purchasing information in the marine industry. Like IMPA ETSF, MTML is comprehensive and complete, and tailored to address trading issues unique to the maritime industry.
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Access the specification ... gXML|Guideline XML Guideline XML
The goal of gXML is to provide a means for companies to facilitate the exchange of e-commerce guidelines using XML, and to simplify the integration of EDI translators, validation engines, forms builders, and specification tools. gXML documents are designed to be simple and self-contained and follow the logical structure of the message to be exchanged.
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Access the specification ... XBN|XML Belief Network File Format XML Belief Network File Format
The revised tool set for Bayesian network authoring being developed by the DTAS group at Microsoft Research is being built on the XBN (for"Bayesian network in XML") format. These tools support standard XML 1.0 files and their Document Type Definition components. Currently, we use the file XBN.DTD as the document description for XBN files. Unfortunately, using DTDs with XML engenders some limitations which may ulitimately relegate DTDs to documentary status.
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PMML is an XML-based language which provides a way for applications to define statistical and data mining models and to share models between PMML compliant applications. PMML provides applications a vendor-independent method of defining models so that proprietary issues and incompatibilities are no longer a barrier to the exchange of models between applications. It allows users to develop models within one vendor's application, and use other vendors' applications to visualize, analyze, evaluate or otherwise use the models. Previously, this was very difficult, but with PMML, the exchange of models between compliant applications is now straightforward. Since PMML is an XML based standard, the specification comes in the form of an XML Document Type Definition (DTD).
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Access the specification ... ChessML|Chess Markup Language Chess Markup Language
ChessML defines a data storage format which preserves all abstract information; an important example is the PDB database developed by Gerd Wilts and others. It builds an interface to chess problem software such as Popeye, Alybadix, Natch and others, develops a flexible format providing simple export functions to LaTeX, HTML, PDF, RTF and others, provides simple interfaces for the data conversation between this hypothetical standard and other chess standard such as PGN and FEN. The ChessML web site provides a working draft specification for ChessML, with four XML DTDs, documentation, examples, and FAQ document. The ChessML sources, example and the documentation files are distributed under the Gnu Public License.
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More Information MRML|Mind Reading Markup Language Mind Reading Markup Language
The aim of MRML is to standardize access to Multimedia Retrieval software components. It is an XML-based protocol and corresponds to a well-defined DTD
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More Information ParlML|ParlML ParlML
ParlMLis a Common Vocabulary for common building blocks. The key to these challenges could be to agree a common structure - an information architecture - or at least a common vocabulary that can describe that structure. If parliamentary information systems are all built from similar"building blocks", identifying these blocks in a similar fashion will go a long way to allowing greater integration and exchange. However, divergent and mutually unintelligible information coding and management standards have always made this a difficult objective to attain. Language diversity (both human and IT) in different systems and Parliaments, merely adds another level of complication.
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Business Process Specification Schema
BPSS is part of the comprehensive ebXML B2B suite of specifications, which also includes core specifications for reliable and secure messaging based on SOAP, collaboration agreements and profiles, a registry/repository, and core components.

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Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language
ebXML, sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, is a modular suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. Using ebXML, companies now have a standard method to exchange business messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in common terms and define and register business processes.
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More Information ebTA|ebXML Techncial Architecture
ebXML Techncial Architecture
Defines the underlying architecture for ebXML.
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Business Process Analysis Worksheet and Guidelines
A set of business process design aids, to sufficiently reflect all necessary parts of a business process; and thus be able to activate an ebXML business process relationship.
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ebXML Catalog of Common Business Processes
Provides an initial list of common business process names, generic in nature that can be used across various industries.
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Business Process and Business Information Analysis Overview
Deals with aspects of commercial interoperability, specifically the process by which enterprises can analyse, identify, and define those business processes and business documents necessary for the conduct of electronic business with other enterprises, within the ebXML framework.
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The Initial Core Components Catalogue
A framework for the results of the analysis of core components.
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ebXML Concept -- Context and Re-Usability of Core Components
Describes the contextual categories that have been identified as most critical in describing the use of generic Core Components for business information purposes.
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Initial Catalogue of Context Drivers
A catalogue of context drivers which have been discovered to-date by the Core Components working group.
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ebXML Specification - Document Assembly and Context Rules
Describes the mechanism for assembling documents from the library of Core Components.
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E-Commerce and Simple Negotiation Patterns
A supporting document to the ebXML Business Process Specification Schema, to address common pattern implementation issues.
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Core Component and Business Process Document Overview
Provides an overview explaining the relationship between the following documents.
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ebXML Convention - Naming Convention for Core Components
Specifies the rules for naming ebXML Core Components and Business Processes.
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ebXML Methodology: Core Components Discovery and Analysis
Provides guidance for the discovery the discovery and analysis of common components and processes involved in the interchange of business information.
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... ebCPP|ebXML Collaboration-Protocol Profile and Agreement Specification
ebXML Collaboration-Protocol Profile and Agreement Specification
Contains the detailed definitions of the Collaboration Protocol Profile (CPP) and the Collaboration Protocol Agreement (CPA).
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ebXML Registry Services Specification
Defines the interface to the ebXML Registry Services as well as interaction protocols, message definitions and XML schema.
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ebXML Message Service Specification
Defines the ebXML Message Service protocol that enables the secure and reliable exchange of messages between two parties.
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... secRISC|ebXML Technical Architecture Risk Assessment
ebXML Technical Architecture Risk Assessment
Provides a high level overview of the security issues in the relationships, interactions, and basic functionality of the ebXML architectural components.
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ebXML Glossary
Defines the terminology chosen for ebXML.
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ebXML Registry Information Model
Specifies the information model for the ebXML Registry.
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... ebREQ|ebXML Requirements Specification
ebXML Requirements Specification
Defines the requirements from representatives of international business and accredited standards organizations to assist the ebXML project team members in developing their deliverables in a consistent manner.
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... qrROAD|ebXML Documentation Roadmap
ebXML Documentation Roadmap
ebXML is a set of specifications that together enable a modular electronic business framework. The vision of ebXML is to enable a global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other through the exchange of XML based messages. ebXML is a joint initiative of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and OASIS, developed with global participation for global usage. The set of ebXML technical specifications describe the technology architecture and functionality of ebXML. This document describes the various ebXML specifications and their applicability to various types of business scenarios.
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XFML is a language for sharing certain types of metadata between websites
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XHTML-FML (the Forms Markup Language) defines an extension to XHTML. This specification is based on the Modularization of XHTML and is one of the first examples for combining multiple XML-based languages using XML namespaces and the Modularization of XHTML. It is meant to complement the recently released XForms Data Model and to provide input to the XForms work-in-progress, specifically to the User Interface document.
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XForms Architecture
XFA, as part of a family of specifications referred to as the XML Forms Architecture, describes an XML based language, XFA-Template, for modelling electronic form templates. XFA provides for the specific needs of electronic forms and the applications that use them. XFA addresses the needs of organizations to securely capture, present, move, process, output and print information associated with electronic forms. This document specifically describes a simple scripting language optimized for creating e-form centric logic and calculations.
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... XFDL|Extensible Forms Description Language
Extensible Forms Description Language
The purpose of XFDL is to solve the body of problems associated with digitally representing complex forms such as those found in business and government. The requirements include support for high precision layout, supporting documentation, integrated computations and input validation, multiple overlapping digital signatures, and legally binding auditable transaction records, by maintaining the whole form as a single unit such that digital signatures can capture the entire context of transactions.
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Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XMPP describes the core features of the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which is used by numerous applications that are compatible with the open-source Jabber instant messaging system.
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... SportsML|SportsXML SportsXML
SportsML aims to be the global XML standard for the interchange of sports data. Designed to be as easy to understand and implement as possible, SportsML allows for the exchange of sports scores, schedules, standings, and statistics for a wide variety of competitions.
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More Information Xang|Xang Xang
The goal of the Apache Xang Project project is to make it easy for developers to build commercial quality XML aware applications for the Web. Apache Xang lets you quickly build data-driven, cross-platform Web applications that integrate disparate data sources. The Xang architecture cleanly separates data, logic and presentation. It is based on open industry standards such as HTTP, XML, XSL, DOM and ECMAScript (JavaScript).
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More Information Cocoon|Cocoon Cocoon
Apache Cocoon is an XML publishing framework that raises the usage of XML and XSLT technologies for server applications to a new level. Designed for performance and scalability around pipelined SAX processing, Cocoon offers a flexible environment based on a separation of concerns between content, logic, and style. To top this all off, Cocoon's centralized configuration system and sophisticated caching help you to create, deploy, and maintain rock-solid XML server applications. Cocoon interacts with most data sources, including filesystems, RDBMS, LDAP, native XML databases, and network-based data sources. It adapts content delivery to the capabilities of different devices like HTML, WML, PDF, SVG, and RTF, to name just a few. You can run Cocoon as a Servlet as well as through a powerful, commandline interface. The deliberate design of its abstract environment gives you the freedom to extend its functionality to meet your special needs in a highly modular fashion.
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More Information FOP|Formatting Objects Processor
Formatting Objects Processor
"FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects and the world's first output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported are PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF." (Quote from FOP home page)

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More Information SGML|Standard Generalized Markup Language|ISO 8879|Information processing -- Text and office systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Standard Generalized Markup Language
Conceived notionally in the 1960s - 1970s, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML, ISO 8879:1986) gave birth to a profile/subset called the Extensible Markup Language (XML), published as a W3C Recommendation in 1998.
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More Information CGM|Computer Graphics Metafile|ISO/IEC 8632|Information technology - Computer graphics - Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information
Computer Graphics Metafile
An ISO standard for vector and composite vector/raster picture definition since 1987. CGM has a significant following in technical illustration, interactive electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, amongst other application areas and is widely used in the fields of automotive engineering, aeronatics, and the defence industry.
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More Information WebCGM|Web Computer Graphics Metafile
Web Computer Graphics Metafile
CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) has been an ISO standard for vector and composite vector/raster picture definition since 1987. CGM has a significant following in technical illustration, interactive electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, amongst other application areas and is widely used in the fields of automotive engineering, aeronatics, and the defence industry. WebCGM is a profile for the effective application of CGM in Web electronic documents. All valid profiles of CGM conform to the ISO CGM standard. As are all profiles, WebCGM is defined by reference to the ISO standard.
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More Information Web Accessibility Initiative|Web Accessibility Initiative
Web Accessibility Initiative
WAI, in coordination with organizations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.
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More Information URN|Uniform Resource Name
Uniform Resource Name
(1) An URI that has an institutional commitment to persistence, availability, etc. Note that this sort of URI may also be a URL. See, for example, PURLs.
(2) A particular scheme, urn:, specified by RFC2141 and related documents, intended to serve as persistent, location-independent, resource identifiers.
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More Information URL|Uniform Resource Locator
Uniform Resource Locator
An informal term (no longer used in technical specifications) associated with popular URI schemes: http, ftp, mailto, etc.
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More Information URI|Uniform Resource Identifier
Uniform Resource Identifier
The generic set of all names/addresses that are short strings that refer to resources.
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More Information TAG|W3C Technical Architecture Group
W3C Technical Architecture Group
The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). W3C has created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary. The TAG will also resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
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More Information PNG|Portable Network Graphics
Portable Network Graphics
"PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel for transparency. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits." (Quote from W3C site)

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More Information HTTP|Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers [47]. A feature of HTTP is the typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred.
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More Information HTML|Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web. It is a non-proprietary format based upon SGML, and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors - you type it in from scratch- to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring tools.
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More Information CSS|Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents.
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More Information WS-Coordination|Web Services Coordination
Web Services Coordination
WS-Coordination describes an extensible framework for providing protocols that coordinate the actions of distributed applications. Such coordination protocols are used to support a number of applications, including those that need to reach consistent agreement on the outcome of distributed transactions.
The framework defined by WS-Coordination enables an application service to create a context needed to propagate an activity to other services and to register for coordination protocols. The framework enables existing transaction processing, workflow, and other systems for coordination to hide their proprietary protocols and to operate in a heterogeneous environment.
Additionally, WS-Coordination describes a definition of the structure of context and the requirements for propagating context between cooperating services.
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Web Services Transaction
WS-Transaction describes coordination types that are used with the extensible coordination framework described in the WS-Coordination specification. It defines two coordination types: Atomic Transaction and Business Activity. Developers can use either or both of these coordination types when building applications that require consistent agreement on the outcome of distributed activities.
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... Specification BPEL4WS|Business Process Language for Web Services|BPEL
Business Process Language for Web Services
BPEL4WS provides a language for the formal specification of business processes and business interaction protocols. By doing so, it extends the Web services interaction model and enables it to support business transactions. BPEL4WS defines an interoperable integration model that should facilitate the expansion of automated process integration in both the intracorporate and the business-to-business spaces.
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... Specification XMCL|Extensible Media Commerce Language Extensible Media Commerce Language
XMCL is an open XML-based language designed to establish industry-wide standards for Internet media commerce. By standardizing the language for business rules, XMCL will enable content to be managed in a way that is independent of codecs, digital rights management systems, and e-commerce systems. XMCL will greatly simplify deployment and accelerate the market for digital media commerce over the Internet. RealNetworks intends to submit the XMCL proposal to the appropriate standards organization, and will work with other industry leaders to ensure the initiative evolves into a widely accepted standard.
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... More Information LegalXML|LegalXML sorry no further expansion possible LegalXML sorry no further expansion possible
LegalXML brings legal and technical experts together to create standards for the electronic exchange of legal data. LegalXML operates as a member section within OASIS, the not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the LegalXML agenda, using the open OASIS technical process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. LegalXML produces standards for electronic court filing, court documents, legal citations, transcripts, criminal justice intelligence systems, and others.
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More Information WebML|Web Modeling Language Web Modeling Language
is a notation for specifying complex Web sites at the conceptual level. WebML enables the high-level description of a Web site along multiple dimensions:
* Its data content (structural model)
* The pages that compose it (composition model)
* The topology of links between pages (navigation model)
* The layout and graphic requirements for page rendering (presentation model)
* The customization features for one-to-one content delivery (personalization model)
All the concepts of WebML are associated with a graphic notation and a textual XML syntax.
WebML specifications are independent of both the client-side language used for delivering the application to users, and of the server-side platform used to bind data to pages, but they can be effectively used to produce a site implementation in a specific architectural setting.
WebML guarantees a model-driven approach to Web site development, which is a key factor for defining a novel generation of CASE tools for the construction of complex sites, supporting advanced features like multi-device access, personalization, and evolution management.
The WebML language and its accompanying design method are implemented in a commercial Web design tool suite, called WebRatio. Please refer to the WebRatio site (http://www.webratio.com/) for details on how to obtain the software.
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CoST, formerly known as"Copenhagen SGML Tool", now maintained and developed by Joe English is a tool for processing SGML data, based on TCL, the Tool Command Language. Since it is based on the ESIS output, generated for example by nsgmls, it works with XML data as well.
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Cost provides a flexible set of low-level primitives upon which sophisticated applications can be built. These include
* A powerful query language for navigating the document tree and extracting ESIS information;
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Extensible 3D (X3D) is a software standard for defining interactive web- and broadcast-based 3D content integrated with multimedia. X3D is intended for use on a variety of hardware devices and in a broad range of application areas such as engineering and scientific visualization, multimedia presentations, entertainment and educational titles, web pages, and shared virtual worlds. X3D is also intended to be a universal interchange format for integrated 3D graphics and multimedia. X3D is the successor to the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), the original ISO standard for web-based 3D graphics (ISO/IEC 14772-1:1997). X3D improves upon VRML with new features, advanced application programmer interfaces, additional data encoding formats, stricter conformance, and a componentized architecture that allows for a modular approach to supporting the standard. (Quote from the Spec)

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The Web3D Consortium was formed to provide a forum for the creation of open standards for Web3D specifications, and to accelerate the worldwide demand for products based on these standards through the sponsorship of market and user education programs.
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More Information PCDATA|parsed character data
parsed character data
Defined in ISO 8879 (SGML). DocBook|Documentation Book Documentation Book
DocBook is an XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
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ISO/IEC 10179:1996 - Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
DSSSL is the transformation and formatting language for SGML. The most known implementation is"James' DSSSL engine" by James Clark (www.jclark.com).

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More Information FOSI|Formatting Output Specification Instance Formatting Output Specification Instance
A way of formatting SGML documents. Used by the US military. Most known Tools available from Arbortext.

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More Information AECMA Specification 1000D|AECMA Specification 1000D --- Sorry no further expansion possible|AECMA-DTD|IETP-X DTD
AECMA Specification 1000D --- Sorry no further expansion possible
This site is the official home of the Technical Publications Specification Maintenance Group (TPSMG), responsible for the development and maintenance of AECMA Specification 1000D (S1000D).
This Specification has been produced to establish standards for the documentation of any civil or military air vehicle or equipment. It is based on international standards such as SGML/XML and CGM for production and use of electronic documentation.
In addition, it defines a Common Source Data Base (CSDB) to provide source information for compilation of the publications and for use in electronic logistics information systems to deliver modules of information direct to the user.
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More Information AECMA|The European Association of Aerospace Industries The European Association of Aerospace Industries
The European Association of Aerospace Industries, AECMA, represents the aerospace industry in Europe in all matters of common interest on the level of aircraft/systems, engines, equipment and components. Its objective is to enhance the competitive development of the whole sector.
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More Information XMC|XML Method Call XML Method Call
XMC a simple presentation layer protocol for network transactions with method call semantics and payloads consisting of small object trees. XMC specifies the request and response protocol, an XML representation for the object trees, and a tree-encoding for graphs.
XMC is forward and backward compatible with Dave Winer's XML-RPC protocol. Because UserLand Software, Inc. holds trademark rights on the name"XML-RPC", XMC is not XML-RPC, although it is fully compatible with it.

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The Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI) is an XML-based interface description language that describes the flow of messages exchanged by a Web Service participating in choreographed interactions with other services.
WSCI describes the dynamic interface of the Web Service participating in a given message exchange by means of reusing the operations defined for a static interface. WSCI works in conjunction with the Web Service Description Language (WSDL), the basis for the W3C Web Services Description Working Group; it can, also, work with another service definition language that exhibits the same characteristics as WSDL.
WSCI describes the observable behavior of a Web Service. This is expressed in terms of temporal and logical dependencies among the exchanged messages, featuring sequencing rules, correlation, exception handling, and transactions. WSCI also describes the collective message exchange among interacting Web Services, thus providing a global, message-oriented view of the interactions.
WSCI does not address the definition and the implementation of the internal processes that actually drive the message exchange. Rather, the goal of WSCI is to describe the observable behavior of a Web Service by means of a message-flow oriented interface. This description enables developers, architects and tools to describe and compose a global view of the dynamic of the message exchange by understanding the interactions with the web service.

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Document Schema Definition Languages
The objective of developing Document Schema Definition Languages is to create 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 technology.

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More Information XMLDSig|XML Digital Signature|DSig
XML Digital Signature
The XML Signature is a method of associating a key with referenced data (octets). XML Signatures can be applied to arbitrary digital content (data objects), including XML, via an indirection. An XML Signature may be applied to the content of one or more resources. Data objects are digested, the resulting value is placed in an element (with other information) and that element is then digested and cryptographically signed.

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XML Information Set
The XML Information Set (Infoset) is an abstract data set for XML documents. An XML document has an information set if it is well-formed and satisfies the namespace constraints. There is no requirement for an XML document to be valid in order to have an information set. An XML document's information set consists of a number of information items; the information set for any well-formed XML document will contain at least a document information item and several others. An information item is an abstract description of some part of an XML document: each information item has a set of associated named properties.

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Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSL is a language for expressing stylesheets. Given a class of arbitrarily structured XML documents or data files, designers use an XSL stylesheet to express their intentions about how that structured content should be presented; that is, how the source content should be styled, laid out, and paginated onto some presentation medium, such as a window in a Web browser or a hand-held device, or a set of physical pages in a catalog, report, pamphlet, or book.

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Scalable Vector Graphics
SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves), images and text. Graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously rendered objects. The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects and template objects. SVG drawings can be interactive and dynamic. Animations can be defined and triggered either declaratively (i.e., by embedding SVG animation elements in SVG content) or via scripting.

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SMILAnimation --- Sorry no further expansion possible
SMIL Animation incorporates animation onto a time line and represents a mechanism for composing the effects of multiple animations. A set of basic animation elements are also described that can be applied to any XML-based language. Animation is inherently time-based. SMIL Animation is defined in terms of the SMIL timing model. The animation capabilities are described by new elements with associated attributes and semantics, as well as the SMIL timing attributes. Animation is modeled as a function that changes the presented value of a specific attribute over time.

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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced"smile") SMIL 2.0 has the following two design goals:
a) Define an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 2.0, an author can describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen.
b) Allow reusing of SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages, in particular those who need to represent timing and synchronization. For example, SMIL 2.0 components are used for integrating timing into XHTML and into SVG .
SMIL 2.0 is defined as a set of markup modules, which define the semantics and an XML syntax for certain areas of SMIL functionality.

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Access the specification ... XML Base|XML Base --- Sorry no further expansion possible
XML Base --- Sorry no further expansion possible
The XML Linking Language XLink defines Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 constructs to describe links between resources. One of the stated requirements on XLink is to support HTML linking constructs in a generic way. The HTML BASE element is one such construct which the XLink Working Group has considered. BASE allows authors to explicitly specify a document's base URI for the purpose of resolving relative URIs in links to external images, applets, form-processing programs, style sheets, and so on.
The XML Base Specification describes a mechanism for providing base URI services to XLink, but as a modular specification so that other XML applications benefiting from additional control over relative URIs but not built upon XLink can also make use of it. The syntax consists of a single XML attribute named xml:base.
The deployment of XML Base is through normative reference by new specifications, for example XLink and the XML Infoset. Applications and specifications built upon these new technologies will natively support XML Base. The behavior of xml:base attributes in applications based on specifications that do not have direct or indirect normative reference to XML Base is undefined.

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Access the specification ... XLink|XML Linking Language
XML Linking Language
The XML Linking Language (XLink) allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.
The XLink set of characteristics is powerful, but the model that underlies them limits the range of possible hyperlink functionality. The model defined in this specification shares with HTML the use of URI technology, but goes beyond HTML in offering features, previously available only in dedicated hypermedia systems, that make hyperlinking more scalable and flexible. Along with providing linking data structures, XLink provides a minimal link behavior model; higher-level applications layered on XLink will often specify alternate or more sophisticated rendering and processing treatments.

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Access the specification ... XHTML|Extensible HyperText Markup Language|HyperText Markup Language|HTML|(X)HTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language
XHTML is the reformulation of HTML 4 as an application of XML. XHTML 1.0 specifies three XML document types that correspond to the three HTML 4 DTDs: Strict, Transitional, and Frameset. XHTML 1.0 is the basis for a family of document types that subset and extend HTML.
XHTML 1.1 defines a new XHTML document type that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in Modularization of XHTML. The purpose of this document type is to serve as the basis for future extended XHTML 'family' document types, and to provide a consistent, forward-looking document type cleanly separated from the deprecated, legacy functionality of HTML 4 that was brought forward into the XHTML 1.0 document types. This document type is essentially a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict using XHTML Modules.
With the introduction of the XHTML family of modules and document types, the W3C has helped move the Internet content-development community from the days of malformed, non-standard markup into the well formed, valid world of XML . In XHTML 1.0, this move was moderated by a goal of providing for easy migration of existing, HTML 4 (or earlier) based content to XHTML and XML. With the advent of the XHTML modules defined in Modularization of XHTML, the W3C has removed support for deprecated elements and attributes from the XHTML family. These elements and attributes were largely presentation oriented functionality that is better handled via style sheets or client-specific default behavior. Going forward, XHTML family document types will be based upon this new, more structural functional collection. In this specification, the W3C's HTML Working Group has defined an initial document type based solely upon modules. This document type is designed to be portable to a broad collection of client devices, and applicable to the majority of Internet content. Content developers who base their content upon the functionality expressed in this specification can be confident that it will be consistently portable across XHTML family conforming user agents.

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Ruby --- Sorry no further expansion possible
"Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of an XHTML module. Ruby is the term used for a run of text that is associated with another run of text, referred to as the base text. Ruby text is used to provide a short annotation of the associated base text. It is most often used to provide a reading (pronunciation guide). Ruby annotations are used frequently in Japan in many kinds of publications, including books and magazines. Ruby is also used in China, especially in schoolbooks.

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Access the specification ... XML Schema|XML Schema --- Sorry no further expansion possible|XSD|XSDL|WXS|XSchema|XMLS|Schema
XML Schema --- Sorry no further expansion possible
The purpose of a schema is to define a class of XML documents, and so the term"instance document" is often used to describe an XML document that conforms to a particular schema. The schema language, which is itself represented in XML 1.0 and uses namespaces, substantially reconstructs and considerably extends the capabilities found in XML 1.0 document type definitions (DTDs). The XML Schema specification addresses several topics relevant to users of XML:
* Primitive Data Typing
* Structural Schemas
* Conformance
The XML Schema specification is provided in three parts:
XML Schema Part 0: Primer is a non-normative document intended to provide an easily readable description of the XML Schema facilities, and is oriented towards quickly understanding how to create schemas using the XML Schema language.
The purpose of XML Schema Part 1: Structures is to define the nature of XML schemas and their component parts, provide an inventory of XML markup constructs with which to represent schemas, and define the application of schemas to XML documents.
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes discusses datatypes that can be used in an XML Schema.

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... XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes C14N|Canonical XML
Canonical XML
Any XML document is part of a set of XML documents that are logically equivalent within an application context, but which vary in physical representation based on syntactic changes permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. This specification describes a method for generating a physical representation, the canonical form, of an XML document that accounts for the permissible changes. Except for limitations regarding a few unusual cases, if two documents have the same canonical form, then the two documents are logically equivalent within the given application context. The canonical form of an XML document is physical representation of the document produced by the method described in this specification.The term canonical XML refers to XML that is in canonical form. The XML canonicalization method is the algorithm defined by this specification that generates the canonical form of a given XML document or document subset. The term XML canonicalization refers to the process of applying the XML canonicalization method to an XML document or document subset.

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Access the specification ... MathML|Mathematical Markup Language
Mathematical Markup Language
MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. MathML can be used to encode both mathematical notation and mathematical content. About thirty of the MathML tags describe abstract notational structures, while another about one hundred and fifty provide a way of unambiguously specifying the intended meaning of an expression. Additionally the MathML specification discusses how the MathML content and presentation elements interact, and how MathML renderers might be implemented and should interact with browsers.

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... MathML2 DOM|Document Object Model
Document Object Model
The Document Object Model (DOM) is an application programming interface (API) for valid HTML and well-formed XML documents. It defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated. In the DOM specification, the term"document" is used in the broad sense - increasingly, XML is being used as a way of representing many different kinds of information that may be stored in diverse systems, and much of this would traditionally be seen as data rather than as documents. Nevertheless, XML presents this data as documents, and the DOM may be used to manage this data. With the Document Object Model, programmers can build documents, navigate their structure, and add, modify, or delete elements and content. Anything found in an HTML or XML document can be accessed, changed, deleted, or added using the Document Object Model, with a few exceptions - in particular, the DOM interfaces for the XML internal and external subsets have not yet been specified.

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... DOM Level 2 Views Specification
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... DOM Level 1 XML|Extensible Markup Language|eXtensible Markup Language
Extensible Markup Language
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.
Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes a class of data objects called XML documents and partially describes the behavior of computer programs which process them. XML is an application profile or restricted form of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879). By construction, XML documents are conforming SGML documents.
XML documents are made up of storage units called entities, which contain either parsed or unparsed data. Parsed data is made up of characters, some of which form character data, and some of which form markup. Markup encodes a description of the document's storage layout and logical structure. XML provides a mechanism to impose constraints on the storage layout and logical structure.

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XSL Transformations
XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. A transformation expressed in XSLT describes rules for transforming a source tree into a result tree. The transformation is achieved by associating patterns with templates. A pattern is matched against elements in the source tree. A template is instantiated to create part of the result tree. The result tree is separate from the source tree. The structure of the result tree can be completely different from the structure of the source tree. In constructing the result tree, elements from the source tree can be filtered and reordered, and arbitrary structure can be added.
A transformation expressed in XSLT is called a stylesheet.
XSLT is designed for use as part of XSL, which is a stylesheet language for XML. XSL specifies the styling of an XML document by using XSLT to describe how the document is transformed into another XML document that uses the formatting vocabulary.
XSLT is also designed to be used independently of XSL. A transformation in the XSLT language is expressed as a well-formed XML document conforming to the Namespaces in XML Recommendation, which may include both elements that are defined by XSLT and elements that are not defined by XSLT.

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Access the specification ... XPath|XML Path Language
XML Path Language
XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. XPath is the result of an effort to provide a common syntax and semantics for functionality shared between XSL Transformations (XSLT) and XPointer . The primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of an XML document. In support of this primary purpose, it also provides basic facilities for manipulation of strings, numbers and booleans. XPath uses a compact, non-XML syntax to facilitate use of XPath within URIs and XML attribute values. XPath operates on the abstract, logical structure of an XML document, rather than its surface syntax. XPath gets its name from its use of a path notation as in URLs for navigating through the hierarchical structure of an XML document. In addition to its use for addressing, XPath is also designed so that it has a natural subset that can be used for matching (testing whether or not a node matches a pattern); this use of XPath is described in XSLT.

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Access the specification ... xml-stylesheet|Associating Style Sheets with XML documents
Associating Style Sheets with XML documents
A style sheet can be associated with an XML document by including one or more processing instructions with a target of xml-stylesheet in the document's prolog. This processing instruction follows the behaviour of the HTML 4.0. The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is allowed only in the prolog of an XML document. The syntax of XML constrains where processing instructions are allowed in the prolog; the xml-stylesheet processing instruction is allowed anywhere in the prolog that meets these constraints. The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is parsed in the same way as a start-tag, with the exception that entities other than predefined entities must not be referenced.

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Access the specification ... RDF|Resource Description Framework
Resource Description Framework
The World Wide Web was originally built for human consumption, and although everything on it is machine-readable, this data is not machine-understandable. It is very hard to automate anything on the Web, and because of the volume of information the Web contains, it is not possible to manage it manually. The solution proposed here is to use metadata to describe the data contained on the Web. Metadata is"data about data" (for example, a library catalog is metadata, since it describes publications) or specifically in the context of this specification"data describing Web resources". The distinction between"data" and"metadata" is not an absolute one; it is a distinction created primarily by a particular application, and many times the same resource will be interpreted in both ways simultaneously.
Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a foundation for processing metadata; it provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. RDF emphasizes facilities to enable automated processing of Web resources. RDF can be used in a variety of application areas; for example: in resource discovery to provide better search engine capabilities, in cataloging for describing the content and content relationships available at a particular Web site, page, or digital library, by intelligent software agents to facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange, in content rating, in describing collections of pages that represent a single logical"document", for describing intellectual property rights of Web pages, and for expressing the privacy preferences of a user as well as the privacy policies of a Web site. RDF with digital signatures will be key to building the"Web of Trust" for electronic commerce, collaboration, and other applications.

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Access the specification ... Namespaces|Namespaces in XML|Namespace|XMLNS
Namespaces in XML
A single XML document may contain elements and attributes that are defined for and used by multiple software modules. If such a markup vocabulary exists which is well-understood and for which there is useful software available, it is better to re-use this markup rather than re-invent it. Such documents, containing multiple markup vocabularies, pose problems of recognition and collision. Software modules need to be able to recognize the tags and attributes which they are designed to process, even in the face of"collisions" occurring when markup intended for some other software package uses the same element type or attribute name. These considerations require that document constructs should have universal names, whose scope extends beyond their containing document. The XML namespaces mechanism accomplishes this.
An XML namespace is a collection of names, identified by a URI reference (RFC2396), which are used in XML documents as element types and attribute names. XML namespaces differ from the"namespaces" conventionally used in computing disciplines in that the XML version has internal structure and is not, mathematically speaking, a set. These issues are discussed in"A. The Internal Structure of XML Namespaces".

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Access the specification ... XML Encryption|XML Encryption Syntax and Processing|XML-Encryption|XMLEnc|XML-Enc
XML Encryption Syntax and Processing
XML Encryption Syntax and Processing represents a process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML. The data may be arbitrary data (including an XML document), an XML element, or XML element content. The result of encrypting data is an XML Encryption EncryptedData element which contains (via one of its children's content) or identifies (via a URI reference) the cipher data. When encrypting an XML element or element content the EncryptedData element replaces the element or content (respectively) in the encrypted version of the XML document. When encrypting arbitrary data (including entire XML documents), the EncryptedData element may become the root of a new XML document or become a child element in an application-chosen XML document.

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Access the specification ... Decryption Transform|Decryption Transform for XML Signature|xmlenc-decrypt
Decryption Transform for XML Signature
This document specifies an XML Signature"decryption transform" that enables XML Signature applications to distinguish between those XML Encryption structures that were encrypted before signing (and must not be decrypted) and those that were encrypted after signing (and must be decrypted) for the signature to validate.

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Access the specification ... XInclude|XML Inclusions
XML Inclusions
Many programming languages provide an inclusion mechanism to facilitate modularity. Markup languages also often have need of such a mechanism. XML Inclusions represent a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (as represented by their information sets) for use by applications that need such a facility. The syntax leverages existing XML constructs - elements, attributes, and URI references. The XML Inclusion Specification defines a processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion. Inclusion is accomplished by merging a number of XML information sets into a single composite Infoset. Specification of the XML documents (infosets) to be merged and control over the merging process is expressed in XML-friendly syntax (elements, attributes, URI references).

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Access the specification ... Exclusive XML Canonicalization|Exclusive XML Canonicalization --- Sorry no further expansion possible
Exclusive XML Canonicalization --- Sorry no further expansion possible
Canonical XML ( XML-C14N ) specifies a standard serialization of XML that, when applied to a subdocument, includes the subdocument's ancestor context including all of the namespace declarations and attributes in the"xml:" namespace. However, some applications require a method which, to the extent practical, excludes unused ancestor context from a canonicalized subdocument. For example, one might require a digital signature over an XML payload (subdocument) in an XML message that will not break when that subdocument is removed from its original message and/or inserted into a different context. This requirement is satisfied by Exclusive XML Canonicalization.

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Access the specification ... XPointer|XML Pointer Language
XML Pointer Language
The XML Pointer Language (XPointer) represents the language to be used as the basis for a fragment identifier for any URI reference that locates a resource whose Internet media type is one of text/xml, application/xml, text/xml-external-parsed-entity, or application/xml-external-parsed-entity.
XPointer, which is based on the XML Path Language (XPath), supports addressing into the internal structures of XML documents and external parsed entities. It allows for examination of a hierarchical document structure and choice of its internal parts based on various properties, such as element types, attribute values, character content, and relative position.

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Access the specification ... XML Fragment Interchange|XML Fragment Interchange --- Sorry no further expansion possible
XML Fragment Interchange --- Sorry no further expansion possible
The XML standard supports logical documents composed of possibly several entities. It may be desirable to view or edit one or more of the entities or parts of entities while having no interest, need, or ability to view or edit the entire document. The problem, then, is how to provide to a recipient of such a fragment the appropriate information about the context that fragment had in the larger document that is not available to the recipient. In the case of many XML documents, it is suboptimal to have to receive and parse the entire document when only a fragment of it is desired. If the user asked to look at chapter 20, one shouldn't need to parse 19 whole chapters before getting to the part of interest. XML Fragment Interchange defines a way to enable processing of small parts of an XML document without having to process everything up to the part in question. This can be done regardless of whether the parts are entities or not, and the parts can either be viewed immediately or accumulated for later use, assembly, or other processing.

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Access the specification ... RDFMS|Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax
Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) is a foundation for processing metadata; it provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. RDF emphasizes facilities to enable automated processing of Web resources. RDF can be used in a variety of application areas; for example: in resource discovery to provide better search engine capabilities, in cataloging for describing the content and content relationships available at a particular Web site, page, or digital library, by intelligent software agents to facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange, in content rating, in describing collections of pages that represent a single logical"document", for describing intellectual property rights of Web pages, and for expressing the privacy preferences of a user as well as the privacy policies of a Web site. RDF with digital signatures will be key to building the"Web of Trust" for electronic commerce, collaboration, and other applications.
RDFMS introduces a model for representing RDF metadata as well as a syntax for encoding and transporting this metadata in a manner that maximizes the interoperability of independently developed Web servers and clients. The syntax uses the Extensible Markup Language ( XML ): one of the goals of RDF is to make it possible to specify semantics for data based on XML in a standardized, interoperable manner. RDF and XML are complementary: RDF is a model of metadata and only addresses by reference many of the encoding issues that transportation and file storage require (such as internationalization, character sets, etc.). For these issues, RDF relies on the support of XML. It is also important to understand that this XML syntax is only one possible syntax for RDF and that alternate ways to represent the same RDF data model may emerge.

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Access the specification ... RDFS|RDF Vocabulary Description Language
RDF Vocabulary Description Language
The Resource Description Framework Schema represents a mechanism to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies. The specification defines a basic vocabulary for this purpose, as well as an extensibility mechanism to anticipate future additions to RDF. The RDF data model, as specified in RDFMS , defines a simple model for describing interrelationships among resources in terms of named properties and values. RDF properties may be thought of as attributes of resources and in this sense correspond to traditional attribute-value pairs. RDF properties also represent relationships between resources. As such, the RDF data model can therefore resemble an entity-relationship diagram. The RDF data model, however, provides no mechanisms for declaring these properties, nor does it provide any mechanisms for defining the relationships between these properties and other resources. That is the role of RDF Schema.

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Access the specification ... RDFMT|Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model Theory
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model Theory
A model-theoretic semantics for a language assumes that the language refers to a 'world', and describes the minimal conditions that a world must satisfy in order to assign an appropriate meaning for every expression in the language. A particular world is called an interpretation, so that model theory might be better called 'interpretation theory'. The idea is to provide an abstract, mathematical account of the properties that any such interpretation must have, making as few assumptions as possible about its actual nature or intrinsic structure. Model theory tries to be metaphysically and ontologically neutral. It is typically couched in the language of set theory simply because that is the normal language of mathematics - for example, this semantics assumes that names denote things in a set IR called the 'universe' - but the use of set-theoretic language here is not supposed to imply that the things in the universe are set-theoretic in nature.
RDFMT describes a model theory for RDF and RDFS which treats the language as simple assertional language, in which each triple makes a distinct assertion and the meaning of any triple is not changed by adding other triples. This imposes a fairly strict monotonic discipline on the language, so that it cannot express closed world assumptions, local default preferences, and several other commonly-used non-monotonic constructs. There are several aspects of meaning in RDF which are ignored by this semantics; in particular, it treats URIs as simple names, ignoring aspects of meaning encoded in particular URI forms (RFC 2396) and does not provide any analysis of time-varying data or of changes to URI denotations.

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Access the specification ... DIME|Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) is a lightweight, binary message format that can be used to encapsulate one or more application-defined payloads of arbitrary type and size into a single message construct. Each payload is described by a type, a length, and an optional identifier. Both URIs and MIME media type constructs are supported as type identifiers. The payload length is an integer indicating the number of octets of the payload. The optional payload identifier is a URI enabling cross-referencing between payloads. DIME payloads may include nested DIME messages or chains of linked chunks of unknown length at the time the data is generated. DIME is strictly a message format: it provides no concept of a connection or of a logical circuit, nor does it address head-of-line problems.

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Reliable HTTP
HTTPR is a protocol for the reliable transport of messages from one application program to another over the Internet, even in the presence of failures either of the network or the agents on either end. It is layered on top of HTTP. Specifically, HTTPR defines how metadata and application messages are encapsulated within the payload of HTTP requests and responses. HTTPR also provides protocol rules which make it possible to ensure that each message is delivered to its destination application exactly once or is reliably reported as undeliverable. HTTP/1.1 serves as the base on which HTTPR builds. As such, all of the facilities of HTTP/1.1 are available.

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Access the specification ... SOAP|Simple Object Access Protocol|XMLP|XP|XML Protocol
Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this specification describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.
SOAP provides a simple and lightweight mechanism for exchanging structured and typed information between peers in a decentralized, distributed environment using XML. SOAP does not itself define any application semantics such as a programming model or implementation specific semantics; rather it defines a simple mechanism for expressing application semantics by providing a modular packaging model and encoding mechanisms for encoding data within modules. This allows SOAP to be used in a large variety of systems ranging from messaging systems to RPC.
Note: Since version 1.2 SOAP forms an unexpanded acronym and bears no meaning behind the capitalized characters.

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Access the specification ... SOAP Dsig|SOAP Security Extensions: Digital Signature|SOAP-DSig
SOAP Security Extensions: Digital Signature
The W3C Note"SOAP Security Extensions: Digital Signature" specifies the syntax and processing rules of a SOAP header entry to carry digital signature information within a SOAP 1.1 Envelope. The motivation is to propose a standard way to use the XML Digital Signature syntax to sign SOAP 1.1 messages. A SOAP header entry <SOAP-SEC:Signature/> is defined for this purpose.

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Access the specification ... SWA|Soap Messages with Attachments
Soap Messages with Attachments
The W3C Note"SOAP Messages with Attachments" defines a binding for a SOAP 1.1 message to be carried within a MIME multipart/related message in such a way that the processing rules for the SOAP 1.1 message are preserved. The MIME multipart mechanism for encapsulation of compound documents can be used to bundle entities related to the SOAP 1.1 message such as attachments. Rules for the usage of URI references to refer to entities bundled within the MIME package are specified.

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Access the specification ... WS-License|Web Services License Language
Web Services License Language
WS-License is superceded by WS-Security

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Access the specification ... WS-Security WS-Security|Web Services Security Language|WS Security|WSS
Web Services Security Language
The WS-Security specification describes additional mechanisms to SOAP messaging to provide message integrity, message confidentiality, and single message authentication. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies. WS-Security also provides a general-purpose mechanism for associating security tokens with messages. No specific type of security token is required by WS-Security. It is designed to be extensible (e.g. support multiple security token formats). For example, a client might provide proof of identity and proof that they have a particular business certification.

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Access the specification ... WS-Referral|Web Services Referral Protocol
Web Services Referral Protocol
WS-Referral is a protocol that enables the routing strategies used by SOAP nodes in a message path to be dynamically configured. SOAP itself provides a distributed processing model where SOAP messages can have content destined for specific processing nodes. WS-Routing adds to SOAP the capability of describing the actual message path. WS-Referral provides a mechanism to dynamically configure SOAP nodes in a message path to define how they should handle a SOAP message. It is a configuration protocol that enables SOAP nodes to delegate part or all of their processing responsibility to other SOAP nodes.

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Access the specification ... WS-Routing|Web Services Routing Protocol
Web Services Routing Protocol
WS-Routing is a simple, stateless, SOAP -based protocol for routing SOAP messages in an asynchronous manner over a variety of transports like TCP, UDP, and HTTP. With WS-Routing, the entire message path for a SOAP message (as well as its return path) can be described directly within the SOAP envelope. It supports one-way messaging, two-way messaging such as request/response and peer-to-peer conversations, and long running dialogs.

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Web Services Conversation Language
WSCL allows the abstract interfaces of Web services, i.e. the business level conversations or public processess supported by a Web service, to be defined. WSCL specifies the XML documents being exchanged, and the allowed sequencing of these document exchanges. WSCL conversation definitions are themselves XML documents and can therefore be interpreted by Web services infrastructures and edevelopment tools. WSCL may be used in conjunction with other service description languages like WSDL; for example, to provide protocol binding information for abstract interfaces, or to specify the abstract interfaces supported by a concrete service.

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... UDDI Document WSCM|Web Services Component Model
Web Services Component Model
The Web Services Component Model (WSCM) represents an XML and web services centric component model for interactive web applications; WSCM is aimed to harmonize as far as practical with existing web application programming models, with the work of the W3C, emerging web services standards, and with the work of other appropriate business information bodies. The Oasis WSCM Technical Commitee's aim is to ensure that WSCM applications can be deployed on any tier on the network and remain target device and output markup neutral; and promote WSCM to the status of an international standard for the conduct of XML and Web Services based web application development, deployment and management.

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Access the specification ... WSDL|Web Services Description Language
Web Services Description Language
The W3C Note WSDL defines an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages regardless of what message formats or network protocols are used to communicate, however, the only bindings described in this document describe how to use WSDL in conjunction with SOAP 1.1, HTTP GET/POST, and MIME.

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Access the specification ... WSEL|Web Services Endpoint Language
Web Services Endpoint Language
A language for describing web service endpoint properties

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Access the specification ... WSFL|Web Services Flow Language
Web Services Flow Language
The Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) is an XML language for the description of Web Services compositions. WSFL considers two types of Web Services compositions:
* The first type specifies the appropriate usage pattern of a collection of Web Services, in such a way that the resulting composition describes how to achieve a particular business goal; typically, the result is a description of a business process.
* The second type specifies the interaction pattern of a collection of Web Services; in this case, the result is a description of the overall partner interactions.
The guiding principle behind WSFL is to fit naturally into the Web Services computing stack. It is layered on top of the Web Services Description Language.

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Access the specification ... WSXL|Web Services Experience Language
Web Services Experience Language
WSXL (Web Services Experience Language) is a Web services centric component model for interactive Web applications, that is, for applications that provide a user experience across the Internet. WSXL is designed to achieve two main goals: enable businesses to deliver interactive Web applications through multiple distribution channels and enable new services or applications to be created by leveraging other interactive applications across the Web. To accomplish these goals, all WSXL component services implement a set of base operations for life cycle management, accepting user input, and producing presentation markup. More sophisticated WSXL component services may be specialized to represent data, presentation, and control. WSXL also introduces a new description language to guide the adaptation of user experience to new distribution channels.

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Access the specification ... WSUI|Web Services User Interface Web Services User Interface
The WSUI Specification is not available, the page www.wsui.org does not exist anymore. XLANG|Web Services for Business Process Design
Web Services for Business Process Design
Automation of business processes based on web services requires a notation for the specification of message exchange behavior among participating web services. XLANG represents such a notation. It can serve as the basis for automated protocol engines that can track the state of process instances and help enforce protocol correctness in message flows. The building block standard that XLANG is most dependent on is WSDL. WSDL specifies a number of fundamental concepts that form the starting point for defining an XLANG service. XLANG has a two-fold relationship with WSDL. An XLANG service description is a WSDL service description with an extension element that describes the behavior of the service as a part of a business process. XLANG service behavior may also rely on simple WSDL services as providers of basic functionality for the implementation of the business process.

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Access the specification ... UDDI|Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is a specification for distributed Web-based information registries of Web services. UDDI is also a publicly accessible set of implementations of the specification that allow businesses to register information about the Web services they offer so that other businesses can find them. The core component of the UDDI project is the UDDI business registration, an XML file used to describe a business entity and its Web services. Conceptually, the information provided in a UDDI business registration consists of three components: white pages including address, contact, and known identifiers; yellow pages including industrial categorizations based on standard taxonomies; and green pages , the technical information about services that are exposed by the business. Green pages include references to specifications for Web services, as well as support for pointers to various file and URL based discovery mechanisms if required.

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Access the specification ... USML|UDDI Search Markup Language UDDI Search Markup Language
USML is an aggregation of different search queries that searches the UDDI registries for multiple criteria. WS-Inspection|Web Services Inspection Language
Web Services Inspection Language
WS-Inspection represents an XML format for assisting in the inspection of a site for available services and a set of rules for how inspection related information should be made available for consumption. A WS-Inspection document provides a means for aggregating references to pre-existing service description documents which have been authored in any number of formats. These inspection documents are then made available at the point-of-offering for the service as well as through references which may be placed within a content medium such as HTML.

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Access the specification ... XMI|XML Metadata Interchange XML Metadata Interchange
The main purpose of XMI is to enable easy interchange of metadata between modeling tools (based on the OMG-UML) and metadata repositories (OMG-MOF based) in distributed heterogeneous environments. XMI integrates the three industry standards XML, UML and MOF. XMI supports the interchange of any kind of metadata that can be expressed using the MOF specification, including both model and metamodel information, whereas the encoding of metadata can consist of both complete models and model fragments, as well as tool-specific extension metadata.

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Access the specification ... REST|Representational State Transfer Representational State Transfer
REST represents an architectural style that describes the architectural model of the current Web. Developed by Roy Thomas Fielding in his PhD dissertation, it is currently often referred to in technical discussions.

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More Information RuleML|Rule Markup Language Rule Markup Language
RuleML is an effort to develop an industry standard for exchange of rules in XML. It basically represets an XML sytax for rule knowledge representation, thus enabling interoperability among major commercial rule systems. RuleML permits forward (bottom-up) and backward (top-down) rules in XML for deduction, rewriting and further inferential-transformational tasks.

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Access the specification ... RuleML Homepage DAML|DARPA Agent Markup Language|DAML+OIL DARPA Agent Markup Language
The W3C Note DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language)+OIL (Ontology Inference Layer) is a semantic markup language for Web resources. It builds on earlier W3C standards such as RDF and RDF Schema, and extends these languages with richer modelling primitives. DAML+OIL provides modelling primitives commonly found in frame-based languages. DAML+OIL (March 2001) extends DAML+OIL (December 2000) with values from XML Schema datatypes. DAML+OIL was built from the original DAML ontology language DAML-ONT (October 2000) in an effort to combine many of the language components of OIL. The language has a clean and well defined semantics.

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... W3C DAML+OIL Note NewsML|News Markup Language News Markup Language
NewsML represents an XML-based standard to represent and manage news throughout its lifecycle, including production, interchange, and consumer use. NewsML, initiated by Reuters in 1998, was ratified as an official standard by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) on the 6th October 2000.
NewsML can be applied at all stages in the (electronic) news life cycle. Typical uses would include: in and between editorial systems; between news agencies and their customers; between publishers and news aggregators; and between news service providers and end users. NewsML takes the form of an XML document, which has a series of components, or elements, that are used to structure and process the actual news content. These elements may have attributes to specify their properties and can carry content in the form of other elements (subelements) and/or character data or external references.

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Access the specification ... NewsML Homepage XSL-FO|XSL Formatting Objects
XSL Formatting Objects
XSL Formatting Objects represents an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics. It is part of the W3C XSL Specification. Formatting is the process of turning the result of an XSL transformation into a tangible form for the reader or listener.
XSL-FO Processor: INPUT ---> |XSL Transformer| ---> |XSL Formatter| ---> OUTPUT

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... Complete XSL Specification REXML|Ruby Electric XML Ruby Electric XML
REXML is an XML parser written in and for the Ruby programming language. REXML is inspired by the Electric XML Java library (from TheMind), and aims to be small and fast with an intuitive API. It may be used according to your choice of either the Ruby license or the GPL.

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More Information JXBRL|Java XBRL Java XBRL
The JXBRL project channels the developments for an OpenSource XBRL support environment written in Java. XBRL is an XML-based language and an acronym for eXtendible Business Reporting Language.

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More Information XMill|XMill --- Sorry no further expansion possible XMill --- Sorry no further expansion possible
A general purpose compression tool for XML.

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More Information HR-XML|Human Resources XML Human Resources XML
The HR-XML Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of a standard suite of XML specifications to enable e-business and the automation of human resources-related data exchanges.

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More Information SVG Tiny|Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic|SVG Basic
Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic
Two mobile profiles of SVG 1.1. The first profile, SVG Tiny, is defined to be suitable for cellphones; the second profile, SVG Basic, is suitable for PDAs.

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Access the specification ... BTP|Business Transaction Protocol
Business Transaction Protocol
The BTP Technical Committee develops an XML-based protocol for managing complex B2B transactions over the Internet

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Access the specification ... XAML|XML Transaction Authority Markup Language XML Transaction Authority Markup Language
The XAML initiative addresses coordinated processing of transaction-supporting web services between internal fulfillment services (the chemical provider's inventory system) and external services such as:
(1) An insurance policy service to insure the product being shipped;
(2) A financing service to ensure payment according to vendor terms;
(3) A transportation service to guarantee timely shipment/delivery of product;
(4) A regulatory service to ensure compliance with government safety requirements.

As it seems this activity no longer carried on.

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Access the specification ... JARV|Java Application Programming Interface for RELAX Verifiers Java Application Programming Interface for RELAX Verifiers
JARV was originally developed for Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX), but can be used with other schema languages or with multiple schema languages. To employ JARV the user needs the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) RELAX package and a compatible application for validating documents against a schema, such as Jing, Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV) or Swift RELAX Verifier. Xerces-2 can be used with JARV driver for Xerces-2 for W3C schema validation.

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Access the specification ... RELAX|Regular Language Description for XML|RELAX NG|RELAXNG
Regular Language Description for XML
The OASIS Technical Committee dealing with relax calls it a next generation schema language for XML: clean, simple and powerful.

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Access the specification ... TRaX|Transformations for XML Transformations for XML
TRaX is the result of collaboration by many XSLT processor developers and is thus likely to be adopted quite quickly. This will allow developers to produce XSLT-based applications that are not tied to particular XSLT implementations, circumventing one significant problem with the current state of affairs.
In the meantime TRaX has been incorporated into SUN's JSR 63.

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More Information TREX|Tree Regular Expressions for XML Tree Regular Expressions for XML
A TREX pattern specifies a pattern for the structure and content of an XML document. A TREX pattern thus identifies a class of XML documents consisting of those documents that match the pattern. A TREX pattern is itself an XML document.
TREX has been merged with RELAX to create RELAX NG. All future development of TREX will take place as part of the RELAX NG effort.

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Access the specification ... SAML|Security Assertions Markup Language|AuthML|AuthXML
Security Assertions Markup Language
The purpose of SAML is to facilitate the exchange of authentication and authorization information.

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Access the specification ... CRML|Non-unique acronym, multiple expansions apply Non-unique acronym, multiple expansions apply
Either expanded to Customer Relationships Markup Language a language for Customer Profile/Information Management or to Content Request Markup Language which denotes a language for specifying distributed XML processing at the content level.
Furthermore, IBM has released a Correctly Rounding Math Library for Java , but that's off topic here.

The Customer Relationships Markup Language is no longer under development, it has been submitted to OASIS and is now known as xCRL . xCRL|extensible Customer Relationships Language
extensible Customer Relationships Language
The objective is to deliver XML standards for customer profile/information management to the industry.
A global customer standard is becoming a necessity in today's competitive global customer-centric business culture to understand customer data, maintain quality and integrity of customer data and to exchange/share customer information across systems, tools, databases and platforms. This helps in building successful Customer Information Systems such as Data Warehouses, Operational Data Marts, CRM/e-CRM, and Single/360 degree Customer View.
The developed standards should provide a common format to represent your customer-centric information/data (eg. name and address data, relationships data, non-name and address customer-centric data such as e-mail, ID, URL, Tel. no., etc). These XML Standards are designed to be application independent, vendor neutral, open and importantly,"Global".
The OASIS committee will not address the following: validation and verification of the customer data, privacy, permissioning, transportation, messaging, routing and security of the data. Many other standard groups worldwide are working on this.
The language was formerly known as CRML and has been renamed by OASIS's QIC technical committee.

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More Information xNAL|extensible Name and Address Standard
extensible Name and Address Standard
The vocabulary is part of OASIS's Customer Information Quality technical committee developing the xCRL language.

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More Information UAWG|User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
The mission of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is to produce guidelines for the development of accessible user agents: software that retrieves and renders Web content, including text, graphics, sounds, video, images, etc. In particular, the UAWG seeks to make the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 a W3C Recommendation, and to collect initial requirements for a subsequent version of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines.

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More Information xNL|extensible Name Standard
extensible Name Standard
The vocabulary is part of OASIS's Customer Information Quality technical committee developing the xCRL language.

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More Information xAL|extensible Address Standard
extensible Address Standard
The vocabulary is part of OASIS's Customer Information Quality technical committee developing the xCRL language.

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More Information xCIL|extensible Customer Information Standard
extensible Customer Information Standard
The vocabulary is part of OASIS's Customer Information Quality technical committee developing the xCRL language.

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More Information CFML|Cold Fusion Markup Language Cold Fusion Markup Language
CFML is the server side markup language used by Alliare's application server Cold Fusion. CFML allows one to connect databases to the World Wide Web, generate active web pages on demand, manage structured and semi-structured data with nothing more than a web browser, gather data from web forms, and operate interactive web sites.

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More Information CML|Chemical Markup Language Chemical Markup Language
CML is a new approach to managing molecular information. It has a large scope as it covers disciplines from macromolecular sequences to inorganic molecules and quantum chemistry. CML is new in bringing the power of XML to the management of chemical information. In simple terms it is"HTML for Molecules", but there is a great deal more to it than that. CML and associated tools allows for the conversion of current files without semantic loss into structured documents, including chemical publications, and provides for the precise location of information within files.
CML has been designed carefully so that it is as easy as possible for the 'average chemist' to understand it. Like a lot of chemistry it's not trivial, but it's no harder than Cahn-Ingold-Prelog chirality rules, and easier than Huckel theory. It helps if you know something about HTML and have tried to transfer data files between sites or programs. It's not magic, and doesn't do anything that isn't really just common sense, but it hides a lot of the inconvenience that we have at present.

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More Information tpaML|Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language
Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language
The Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language has been designed for governing electronic contracts. Developed by IBM, the tpaML specification uses XML to define and implement electronic contracts. The foundation of tpaML is the Trading Partner Agreement (TPA), which defines how trading partners will interact at the transport, document exchange and business protocol layers. A TPA contains the general contract terms and conditions, participant roles (buyers, sellers), communication and security protocols and business processes, (valid actions, sequencing rules, etc.). XML-based TPA documents capture the essential information upon which trading partners must agree in order for their applications and business processes to communicate. tpaML is a complementary technology to ebXML, the Electronic Business XML initiative, which is a joint effort of the United Nations/CEFACT and OASIS to establish a global framework for the exchange of electronic business data.

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Access the specification ... NASSL|Network Accessible Service Specification Language Network Accessible Service Specification Language
An Interface Definition Language (IDL), based on XML, that describes the interfaces necessary to access a service. NASSL does not describe the service itself; that responsibility is left to the WDS . WSIL|Web Services Invocation Framework
Web Services Invocation Framework
A tool that provides a standard API for invoking services described in Web Services Description Language ( WSDL ), no matter how or where the services are provided. The architecture allows new bindings to be added at run time.
WSIF currently provides developers with a standard interface for working with representations of any Web service as an alternative to working directly with a SOAP API. In the WSIF architecture, services are invoked by using WSDL documents. WSIF works with services regardless of how they were implemented or where they reside. Services may be invoked dynamically and without generating stubs.

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More Information JavaML|Java Markup Language Java Markup Language
An XML representation for Java source code.

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More Information XML-RPC|XML Remote Procedure Call Protocol|RPC|XML RPC|XMLRPC XML Remote Procedure Call Protocol
XML-RPC is a Remote Procedure Calling protocol that works over the Internet.
An XML-RPC message is an HTTP-POST request. The body of the request is in XML. A procedure executes on the server and the value it returns is also formatted in XML.
Procedure parameters can be scalars, numbers, strings, dates, etc.; and can also be complex record and list structures.

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Access the specification ... ICE|Information Content Exchange Information Content Exchange
The ICE specification provides businesses with an XML-based common language and architecture that facilitates automatic exchanging, updating, supplying and controlling of assets in a trusted fashion without manual packaging or knowledge of remote Web site structures. For consumer Web sites, end users benefit from more complete, easier-to-use Web destinations that reduce the frustration of having to surf through many inadequate narrowly focused Web sites to find what they need.
ICE v1.0 is a W3C Note

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More Information RSS|RDF Site Summary RDF Site Summary
RDF Site Summary is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF Specification and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularization.

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Access the specification ... DISCO|Discovery of Web Services Discovery of Web Services
DISCO is a Microsoft technology for publishing and discovering Web Services

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More Information ADS|Advertisement and Discovery of Services Advertisement and Discovery of Services
ADS is comparable to other discovery mechanisms proposed by Microsoft in their DISCO specification, and CommerceNet in their eCo Framework, in that they all offer means to advertise locations of service descriptions. The ADS method utilizes the Well-Defined Service description documents.

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More Information XKMS|XML Key Management Specification|X-KISS|X-KRSS
XML Key Management Specification
XKMS specifies protocols for distributing and registering public keys, suitable for use in conjunction with the proposed standard for XML Signature developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and an anticipated companion standard for XML encryption. The XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) comprises two parts -- the XML Key Information Service Specification (X-KISS) and the XML Key Registration Service Specification (X-KRSS).

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Access the specification ... XFS|XMethods Filesyste XMethods Filesyste
The XMethods filesystem service enables you to post and read files via a SOAP interface. This system enables developers to create services that utilize centralized, persistent data. Ideally, this type of filesystem can be used to centralize the storage of information which can be accessed by multiple nodes. For example, one could use this space to support automatic patch updates.

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More Information WDDX|Web Distributed Data eXchange Web Distributed Data eXchange
WDDX is an XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex data between Web programming languages, creating what some refer to as Web syndicate networks . WDDX consists of a language-independent representation of data based on an XML 1.0 DTD, and a set of modules for a wide variety of languages that use WDDX. WDDX can be used with HTTP, SMTP, POP, FTP and other Internet protocols that support transferring textual data.

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More Information WIDL|Web Interface Definition Language
Web Interface Definition Language
WIDL is a metalanguage that implements a service-based architecture over the document-based resources of the World Wide Web. WIDL is an application of the eXtensible Markup Language ( XML ); it allows interactions with Web servers to be defined as functional interfaces that can be accessed by remote systems over standard Web protocols, and provides the structure necessary for generating client code in languages such as Java, C/C++, COBOL, and Visual Basic. WIDL enables a practical and cost-effective means for diverse systems to be rapidly integrated across corporate intranets, extranets, and the Internet.

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Access the specification ... WDS|Well-Defined Service Well-Defined Service
A Well-Defined Service (WDS) document describes nonoperational service information, such as service category, service description, and expiration date, as well as business information about the service provider, such as company name, address, and contact information. SDL|Microsoft Service Description Language
Microsoft Service Description Language
In order to utilize a service on a remote server using SOAP , the client needs to understand what the remote service is capable of. Using SDL, SOAP provides a way to query the remote service and learn about its capabilities, such as how it represents data types and commands. For example, using SDL one could learn that a particular service accepts two strings, searches for first string inside second, and returns true or false.
SDL is an XML document, and is very similar in concept as IDL (Interface Definition Language) except that IDL is platform specific and SDL is platform independent. SCL|SOAP Contract Language
SOAP Contract Language
Much like SDL , the SOAP Contract Language is designed to expose the capabilities of a service, but also goes much farther. Microsoft has published the SCL specification with the following comment, We published the SCL specification so we could solicit broad feedback from the industry. We'll update the public toolkit to use SCL once the specification takes into consideration the feedback we're going to get and is in a reasonably stable state. Until then it (the toolkit) will continue to use a form of SDL. Because of the extended capabilities of SCL, it will replace SDL once it matures.
In addition to describing a service's capabilities, SCL goes much further by defining the actual contract by which endpoints (the server and the client) communicate. This contract contains both a description of the endpoint and the messages it will accept, and optional orchestration information that describes the flow of messages between endpoints. ROPE|Remote Object Proxy Engine
Remote Object Proxy Engine
ROPE provides a set of COM components (rope.dll) that assist in building SOAP messaging into applications.

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More Information WSML|Web Service Meta Language
Web Service Meta Language
A WSML file provides information that maps the operations of a service (as described in the WSDL file) to specific methods in the COM object. The WSML file determines which COM object to load to service the request for each operation.
Note Some authors translate WSML into Web Services Management Layer

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More Information XTM|XML Topic Maps XML Topic Maps
XTM provides a model and grammar for representing the structure of information resources used to define topics, and the associations (relationships) between topics. Names, resources, and relationships are said to be characteristics of abstract subjects, which are called topics. Topics have their characteristics within scopes: i.e. the limited contexts within which the names and resources are regarded as their name, resource, and relationship characteristics. One or more interrelated documents employing this grammar is called a topic map.

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Access the specification ... XPipe|XML Pipeline Definition Language
XML Pipeline Definition Language
Pipeline is an XML vocabulary for describing the processing relationships between XML resources. A pipeline document specifies the inputs and outputs to XML processes and a pipeline controller uses this document to figure out the chain of processing that must be executed in order to get a particular result.

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Access the specification ... XDR|XML Data Reduced XML Data Reduced
The XML-Data submission contained many new ideas that an XML schema language could support. XDR refines and subsets those ideas down to a more manageable size in order to allow faster progress toward adopting a new schema language for XML. Some of the inconsistencies in theXML-Data submissionare cleaned up, and some changes have been made based on comments received since the XML-Data submission was posted.
Note XDR also serves as abbreviation for the IETF External Data Representation Standard according toRFC 1014.

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Access the specification ... ECML|Electronic Commerce Modeling Language
Electronic Commerce Modeling Language
ECML will describes the syntax of a class of data objects called Payment Processing Objects. This will involve the development of a hierarchically organized set of data elements and an XML syntax for payment transaction information for both electronic wallets and Business to Business (B2B) payment types such as credit card, electronic check, line of credit, ACH (Automated Clearing House), Mobile Phone Payments, and PDA Payments.

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Access the specification ... IODEF|Incident Object Description and Exchange Format
Incident Object Description and Exchange Format
The purpose of the Incident Object Description and Exchange Format is to define a common data format for describing and exchanging incident information between collaborating Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs). The specific goals and requirements of the IODEF are described inRFC 3067. One of the design principles in the IODEF is compatibility with theIntrusion Detection Message Exchange Format(IDMEF) developed for intrusion detection systems. For this reason, IODEF is heavily based on the IDMEF and provides upward compatibility with it.

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Access the specification ... VML|Vector Markup Language Vector Markup Language
VML is an application of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 which defines a format for the encoding of vector information together with additional markup to describe how that information may be displayed and edited.

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Access the specification ... SWAD|Semantic Web Advanced Development
Semantic Web Advanced Development
Not actually a XML language nor a W3C Specification.
The Acronym summarizes some activities around the Semantic Web movements.

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More Information XUP|Extensible User Interface Protocol
Extensible User Interface Protocol
The Extensible User Interface Protocol is a SOAP protocol for communicating user interface events and updates on the web. It paves a foundation for developing and consuming highly interactive web applications and services. XUP may be used with any user interface model or any event model with an XML-based representation. OPML|Outline Processor Markup Language Outline Processor Markup Language
The purpose of OPML is to provide a way to exchange information between outliners and Internet services that can be browsed or controlled through an outliner.
The design goal is to have a transparently simple, self-documenting, extensible and human readable format that's capable of representing a wide variety of data that's easily browsed and edited. As the format evolves this goal will be preserved. It should be possible for a reasonably technical person to fully understand the format with a quick read of a single Web page.
It's an open format, meaning that other outliner vendors and service developers are free to use the format to be compatible with Radio UserLand or for any other purpose.

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Access the specification ... PML|Palm Markup Language/Markup Language for Paper and Printing Palm Markup Language/Markup Language for Paper and Printing
A Vocabulary to specify formatting and other information in a text file for later reading using the Palm Reader.
Note: PML is currently not formulated as XML vocabulary!

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PML could also relate to the Markup Language for Paper and Printing developed by www.paperhub.com

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More Information CDA|Clinical Document Architecture|PRA Clinical Document Architecture
The CDA was initially known as the Patient Record Architecture (PRA). It is an XML vocabulary that was designed to provide an exchange model for clinical documents such as discharge summaries and progress notes. CDA brings the healthcare industry one step closer to the realization of an electronic medical record. The CDA Standard is expected to be published as an ANSI approved standard.

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More Information XWT|XML Windowing Toolkit XML Windowing Toolkit
XWT supports the creation of remote applications -- applications that run on a server, yet can"project" their user interface onto any computer, anywhere on the Internet. The XWT Engine is packaged as both an ActiveX control and a Java applet, so you can access XWT applications from all major platforms without installing any additional software.

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More Information Wf-XML|Workflow Management-XML Workflow Management-XML
A markup language for workflow definition.

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More Information XBML|eXtended Business Modeling Language eXtended Business Modeling Language
a markup language used to synoptically model the specific individual dimensions of an organization_s requirements /processes

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More Information CCIML|Carels Cloning Control Instructions Markup Language Carels Cloning Control Instructions Markup Language
CCIML is a XML - structured information manager for client presentation (GUI) logic and local client intelligence and behavior

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More Information XNGloss|XML Namespace Gloss XML Namespace Gloss
XNGloss is a language intended to be used as a de facto dereferencable resource for namespaces

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Access the specification ... XRNL|XML Namespace Related Resource Language XML Namespace Related Resource Language
XML Namespace Related-resource Language (XNRL) is an HTML-based markup language designed to contain a human-readable description of an XML namespace as well as pointers to multiple resources related to that namespace. Examples of such related resources include schemas, stylesheets, human-readable documentation (beyond that contained in the XNRL package) and executable code.

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More Information XNCL|XML Namespace Catalog Format XML Namespace Catalog Format
XNCL defines a format for an XML Namespace Catalog. An XML Namespace Catalog serves as a text description of an XML Namespace [1] and includes links to resources associated with the namespace such as schemata, stylesheets and/or other resources associated with the namespace URI. An XML Catalog may also map Formal Public Identifiers into System Identifiers defined as URI references [2]. An XML Namespace Catalog is designed to be suitable for service as the body of a resource returned by deferencing a URI serving as an XML Namespace name. The XML Namespace Catalog format is an extension of XHTML with a new element named"resource". The resource element serves as an XLink to the referenced resource.

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Access the specification ... LDIF|LDAP Data Interchange Format LDAP Data Interchange Format
A file format suitable for describing directory information or modifications made to directory information. The file format, known as LDIF, for LDAP Data Interchange Format, is typically used to import and export directory information between LDAP-based directory servers, or to describe a set of changes which are to be applied to a directory.

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Access the specification ... W3C|World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. W3C has around 500 Member organizations from all over the world and has earned international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the Web.

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More Information OASIS|Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OASIS is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 400 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. OASIS and the United Nations jointly sponsor ebXML, a global framework for e-business data exchange. OASIS operates XML.org, a community clearinghouse for XML application schemas, vocabularies and related documents. OASIS hosts The XML Cover Pages, an online reference collection for interoperable markup language standards. The OASIS Network includes CGM Open and LegalXML.

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More Information ORDL|Object Relational Description Language Object Relational Description Language
Object Relational Description Language (ORDL) addresses the need to describe and represent information objects and relationships between them such that automated agents or users could perform guided exploration over the information described by ORDL. ORDL is used by content providers to explicitly describe and represent information objects and relationships of various kinds starting from primitive types all the way up to complex, networked structures. We expect ORDL to help enable a semantic web that supports more intuitive exploration and evaluation. RecipeML|Recipe Markup Language Recipe Markup Language
RecipeML is a format for representing recipes on computer. It is written in the increasingly popular Extensible Markup Language - XML.

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More Information CC/PP|Composite Capability/Preference Profile
Composite Capability/Preference Profile
A CC/PP profile is a description of device capabilities and user preferences that can be used to guide the adaptation of content presented to that device.

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Access the specification ... OFX|Open Financial Exchange
Open Financial Exchange
Open Financial Exchange is a specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between financial institutions, business and consumers via the Internet. Created by CheckFree, Intuit and Microsoft in early 1997, 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. Since 2000, with the 2.0 specification, OFX has become XML 1.0 compliant and has added 1098, 1099 and W2 tax form download capabilities.

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More Information PICS|Platform for Internet Content Selection
Platform for Internet Content Selection
The PICSTM specification enables labels (metadata) to be associated with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built. Parents who are interested in finding filtering software or ISPs that offer filtering will probably want to consult www.netparents.org rather than this site.

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More Information TMML|Turing Machine Markup Language Turing Machine Markup Language
Is an XML language for describing Turing machines.

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More Information SOA|Service Oriented Architecture Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP 's underlying architecture

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More Information ISO|International Organization for Standardization International Organization for Standardization
International standardization body P3P|Platform for Privacy Preferences Platform for Privacy Preferences
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Web sites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate decision-making based on these practices when appropriate. Thus users need not read the privacy policies at every site they visit.
The P3P specification defines:
A standard schema for data a Web site may wish to collect, known as the"P3P base data schema"
A standard set of uses, recipients, data categories, and other privacy disclosures
An XML format for expressing a privacy policy
A means of associating privacy policies with Web pages or sites, and cookies
A mechanism for transporting P3P policies over HTTP

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Access the specification ... XML-DSIG|XML-Signature Syntax and Processing XML-Signature Syntax and Processing
XML syntax and processing rules for creating and representing digital signatures. XML Signatures can be applied to any digital content (data object), including XML. An XML Signature may be applied to the content of one or more resources. Enveloped or enveloping signatures are over data within the same XML document as the signature; detached signatures are over data external to the signature element. More specifically, this specification defines an XML signature element type and an XML signature application; conformance requirements for each are specified by way of schema definitions and prose respectively. This specification also includes other useful types that identify methods for referencing collections of resources, algorithms, and keying and management information.

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Access the specification ... Ruby Annotation|Ruby Annotation --- Sorry no further expansion possible Ruby Annotation --- Sorry no further expansion possible
Ruby is the term used for a run of text that is associated with another run of text, referred to as the base text. Ruby text is used to provide a short annotation of the associated base text. It is most often used to provide a reading (pronunciation guide). Ruby annotations are used frequently in Japan in many kinds of publications, including books and magazines. Ruby is also used in China, especially in schoolbooks.
This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of an XHTML module

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Access the specification ... Modularization of XHTML|Modularization of XHTML --- Sorry no further expansion possible Modularization of XHTML --- Sorry no further expansion possible
Specifies an abstract modularization of XHTML and an implementation of the abstraction using XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs). This modularization provides a means for subsetting and extending XHTML, a feature needed for extending XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms.

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Access the specification ... WCAG|Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) explains how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. It was written for Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and developers of authoring tools. The primary goal of WCAG 1.0 is to promote accessibility. However, following the guidelines in WCAG 1.0 will also make Web content more available to all users.

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Access the specification ... TEI|Text Encoding Initiative Text Encoding Initiative
Initially launched in 1987, the TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.

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More Information Bergen MLCD Project|Markup Language for Complex Documents Markup Language for Complex Documents
The goal of MLCD is to lay the theoretical foundation for a better system for the representation of complex textual phenomena than today's SGML- and XML-based systems. The project is also intended to provide a basis for the production of software, with particular attention to Web-based programs. MLCD will define a system intended to combine the best aspects of SGML, XML, and MECS (the Multi-Element Code System). The notation and file format of such a system has already been established, and a data structure has been sketched out. The project will work to complete the definition of the data structure and establish methods for defining document grammars. We will also develop prototype software for experimental purposes and to verify that the system is implementable.

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More Information MASTER|Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records
MASTER is a European Union funded project to create a single on-line catalogue of medieval manuscripts in European libraries. This project has developed a single standard for computer-readable descriptions of manuscripts. It has created software for making these records, and tested the standard and the software on descriptions of some 2000 manuscripts. Many of these records will be mounted in a single networked catalogue, available to everyone. MASTER is funded under the Framework IV Telematics for Libraries call.

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More Information GDA|Global Document Annotation Initiative Global Document Annotation Initiative
The GDA Initiative aims at having Internet authors annotate their electronic documents with a common standard tag set which allows machines to automatically recognize the semantic and pragmatic structures of the documents. A huge amount of annotated data is expected to emerge, which should serve not just as tagged linguistic corpora but also as a worldwide, self- extending knowledge base mainly consisting of examples of how our knowledge manifests

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More Information ETCSL|Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature is based at the University of Oxford. Its aim is to make accessible, via the World Wide Web, over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC.

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More Information XSTAR|XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research
The goal XSTAR is to create a sophisticated Internet-based research environment for specialists in textual and archaeological studies. In particular, XSTAR is intended for archaeologists, philologists, historians, and historical geographers who work with ancient artifacts, documents, and geographical or environmental data. It will not only provide access to detailed, searchable data in each of these areas individually, but will also integrate these diverse lines of evidence as an aid to interdisciplinary research.

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More Information METS|Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation.

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More Information EAD|Encoded Archival Description Encoded Archival Description
The EAD Document Type Definition (DTD) is a standard for encoding archival finding aids using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress (LC) in partnership with the Society of American Archivists.

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More Information LEAF|Linking and Exploring Authority Files Linking and Exploring Authority Files
a model architecture for a distributed search system harvesting existing name authority information aiming at automatically establishing a user needs based common name authority file in a specific sector highly relevant to the cultural heritage of Europe.

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More Information OCS|Open Content Syndication Open Content Syndication
The OCS Directory format is designed to enable channel listings to be constructed for use by portal sites, client based headline software and other similar applications.

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More Information PSI|Portable Site Information Portable Site Information
Portable Site Information is a language for creating websites that are portable between different web content platforms.

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More Information MCF|Meta Content Framework Using XML Meta Content Framework Using XML
A data model for describing information organization structures (metadata) for collections of networked information.

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More Information RDDL|Resource Directory Description Language Resource Directory Description Language
The Resource Directory Description Language is an extension of XHTML Basic 1.0 with an added element named resource. This element serves as an XLink to the referenced resource, and contains a human-readable description of the resource and machine readable links which describe the purpose of the link and the nature of the resource being linked to. The nature of the resource being linked to is indicated by the xlink:role attribute and the purpose of the link is indicated by the xlink:arcrole attribute.

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More Information SOM|Service Oriented Management Service Oriented Management
BML|Broadcast Markup Language/Bean Markup Language Broadcast Markup Language/Bean Markup Language
The acronym referes either to the Broadcast Markup Language or the Bean Markup Language
The Broadcast Markup Language is an XML-based standard developed by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). It was adopted in 1999 as a Japanese standard ARIB STD B-24: Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting
(Definition adapted from a news at xml.coverpages.org)

The Bean Markup Language is ... HIER FEHLT NOCH EINE DEFINITION!!!

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Access the specification ... Ballots, Elections, Polls|XML and Voting XML and Voting

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More Information SPML|Service Provisioning Markup Language
Service Provisioning Markup Language
SPML is an XML-based framework for exchanging information between Provisioning Service Points.

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Access the specification ... WSS|Web Services Security
Web Services Security
WS-Security describes how to attach signature and encryption headers to SOAP messages. In addition, it describes how to attach security tokens, including binary security tokens such as X.509 certificates and Kerberos tickets, to messages.

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Access the specification ... BIOXML|Biological XML Biological XML
BioXML is a way to present data on the web.

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More Information XRI|XML Resource Identifier XML Resource Identifier
The purpose XRI is to define a URI scheme and a corresponding URN namespace for distributed directory services that enable the identification of resources (including people and organizations) and the sharing of data across domains, enterprises, and applications.

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More Information ConTEXt XML|ConTEXt XML ConTEXt XML
Not available yet. We're working on it ... LConML|Learning Content Markup Language Learning Content Markup Language
Not available yet. We're working on it ... CIDX|Chemical Industry Data Exchange Chemical Industry Data Exchange
Not available yet. We're working on it ... OMDoc|Open Mathematical Documents Open Mathematical Documents
Not available yet. We're working on it ... OpenMath|OpenMath OpenMath
Alternative proposal to MathML. papiNet|papiNet --- Sorry no further expansion possible papiNet --- Sorry no further expansion possible
Not available yet. We're working on it ... OeBF|Open eBook Forum Open eBook Forum
Not available yet. We're working on it ... HL7|Health Level 7 Health Level 7
Not available yet. We're working on it ... FinXML|Financial XML Financial XML
FinXMLis 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.

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More Information ACORD|Acord --- Sorry no further expansion possible Acord --- Sorry no further expansion possible
Not available yet. We're working on it ... MISMO|Mortage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization Mortage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization
Not available yet. We're working on it ... aecXML|Architecture, Engineering, Construction XML Architecture, Engineering, Construction XML
Not available yet. We're working on it ... LandXML|LandXML --- Sorry no further expansion possible LandXML --- Sorry no further expansion possible
The LandXML schema facilitates the exchange of data created during the Land Planning, Civil Engineering and Land Survey process.

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