XML schema
An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself. These constrai ...
s in use on the Internet sorted by purpose. XML schemas can be used to create XML documents for a wide range of purposes such as syndication, general exchange, and storage of data in a standard format.
BeerXML
BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data description standard designed for the exchange of beer brewing recipes and other brewing data. Tables of recipes as well as other records such as hop schedules and malt bills can be represented using ...
- a free XML based data description standard for the exchange of brewing data
Business
* ACORD data standards - Insurance Industry XML schemas specifications by Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development
* Europass XML - XML vocabulary describing the information contained in a
(CV), Language Passport (LP) and European Skills Passport (ESP)
* OSCRE - Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate format for data exchange within the real estate industry
* UBL - Defining a common XML library of business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc.) by Oasis
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XBRL
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a freely available global framework for exchanging business information. XBRL allows the expression of semantics commonly required in business reporting. The standard was originally based on X ...
Extensible Business Reporting Language for
International Financial Reporting Standards
International Financial Reporting Standards, commonly called IFRS, are accounting standards issued by the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). They constitute a standardised way of describing the company's fi ...
(IFRS) and United States
generally accepted accounting principles
Publicly traded companies typically are subject to rigorous standards. Small and midsized businesses often follow more simplified standards, plus any specific disclosures required by their specific lenders and shareholders. Some firms operate on t ...
OASIS
In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environmentgbXML - an open schema developed to facilitate transfer of building data stored in Building Information Models (BIMs) to engineering analysis tools.
* IFC-XML - Building Information Models for architecture, engineering, construction, and operations.
* XMI - an Object Management Group (OMG) standard for exchanging metadata information, commonly used for exchange of UML information
* XTCE - XML Telemetric and Command Exchange is an XML based data exchange format for spacecraft telemetry and command meta-data
Financial
* FIXatdl - FIX algorithmic trading definition language. Schema provides a HCI between a human trader, the order entry screen(s), unlimited different algorithmic trading types (called strategies) from a variety of sources, and formats a new order message on the FIX wire.
* FIXML - Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol initiated in 1992 for international real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets.
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FpML
FpML (Financial products Markup Language) is a business information exchange standard based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) that enables business-to-business over-the-counter (OTC) financial derivative transactions online by following W3C s ...
- Financial products Markup Language is the industry-standard protocol for complex financial products. It is based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language), the standard meta-language for describing data shared between applications.
Geographic information systems and geotagging
* KML - Keyhole Markup Language is used for annotation on geographical browsers including Google Earth and NASA's World Wind. These annotations are used to place events such as earthquake warnings, historical events, etc.
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SensorML
SensorML is an approved Open Geospatial Consortium standard and an XML encoding for describing sensors and measurement processes. SensorML can be used to describe a wide range of sensors, including both dynamic and stationary platforms and both in- ...
- used for describing sensors and measurement processes
Graphical user interfaces
* FIXatdl - algorithmic trading GUIs (language independent)
* FXML - Extensible Application Markup Language for Java
* GLADE - GNOME's User Interface Language (GTK+)
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KParts
KDE Frameworks is a collection of libraries and software frameworks readily available to any Qt-based software stacks or applications on multiple operating systems. Featuring frequently needed functionality solutions like hardware integration, f ...
- KDE's User Interface Language (Qt)
* UXP - Unified XUL Platform, a 2017
fork
In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to h ...
XAML
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML ) is a declarative XML-based language developed by Microsoft for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise.
XAML is used extensively i ...
- Microsoft's Extensible Application Markup Language
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XForms
XForms is an XML format used for collecting inputs from web forms. XForms was designed to be the next generation of HTML / XHTML forms, but is generic enough that it can also be used in a standalone manner or with presentation languages other tha ...
- XForms
* XUL - XML User Interface Language (Native)
Humanities texts
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EpiDoc
EpiDoc is an international community that produces guidelines and tools for encoding in TEI XML scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents, especially inscriptions and papyri.
The EpiDoc Guidelines were originally proposed as a reco ...
- Epigraphic Documents
* TEI - Text Encoding Initiative
TM-XML The Trade Mark Extensible Markup Language (TM-XML) is an XML open standard for the trademark business and for the exchange of trademark information between the Industrial Property Offices and its partners or users.
Objectives
The initial objective ...
- Trade Mark Information Exchange Standard
Libraries
* EAD - for encoding archival finding aids, maintained by the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description of the Society of American Archivists, in partnership with the Library of Congress
* MARCXML - a direct mapping of the MARC standard to XML syntax
* METS - a schema for aggregating in a single XML file descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata about a digital object
* MODS - a schema for a bibliographic element set and maintained by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress
Math and science
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MathML
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a pair of mathematical markup languages, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. Its aim is to natively integrate mathematical formulae ...
- Mathematical Markup Language
* ANSI N42.42 or "N42" -
NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical s ...
Homeland Security
Homeland security is an American national security term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive" to ...
ONIX for Books
ONIX for Books is an XML format for sharing bibliographic data pertaining to both traditional books and eBooks. It is the oldest of the three ONIX standards, and is widely implemented in the book trade in North America, Europe and the Asia–Pac ...
- ONline Information eXchange, developed and maintained by EDItEUR jointly with Book Industry Communication (UK) and the
Book Industry Study Group
The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) is an American trade association for policy, technical standards and research related to books and similar products. The mission of BISG is to simplify logistics for publishers, manufacturers, suppliers ...
(US), and with user groups in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the Republic of Korea.
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PRISM
PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet ...
- Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata
* RDF - Resource Description Framework
Atom
Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements. An atom consists of a atomic nucleus, nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, surrounded by an electromagnetically bound swarm of electrons. The chemical elements are distinguished fr ...
- Atom
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RSS
RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many ...
- Really Simple Syndication
Paper and forest products
* EPPML - an XML conceptual model for the interactions between parties of a postal communication system.
* papiNet - XML format for exchange of business documents and product information in the paper and forest products industries.
Publishing
* DITA - Darwin Information Typing Architecture, document authoring system
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DocBook
DocBook is a Semantics (computer science), semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of docume ...
- for technical documentation
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JATS
The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in ...
(formerly known as the NLM DTD) - Journal Article Tag Suite, a journal publishing structure originally developed by the
United States National Library of Medicine
The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.
Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health. I ...
PRISM
PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet ...
- Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata
Statistics
* DDI - "Data Documentation Initiative" is a format for information describing statistical and social science data (and the lifecycle).
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SDMX
Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) is a set of technical standards designed to describe statistical data and metadata, normalise their exchange, and improve their efficient sharing across statistical and similar organisations. It is publ ...
- SDMX-ML is a format for exchange and sharing of Statistical Data and Metadata.
List of XML markup languages
This is a list of notable XML markup languages.
A
*AdsML Markup language used for interchange of data between advertising systems.
*aecXML: a mark-up language which uses Industry Foundation Classes to create a vendor-neutral means to access da ...
XML transformation language
An XML transformation language is a programming language designed specifically to transform an ''input'' XML document into an ''output'' document which satisfies some specific goal.
There are two special cases of transformation:
* XML to XML: ...
Data Format Description Language Data Format Description Language (DFDL, often pronounced ''daff-o-dil'') is a modeling language for describing general text and binary data in a standard way. It was published as an Open Grid Forum Recommendation in February 2021, and in April 202 ...
XML Schemas
An XML schema is a description of a type of Extensible Markup Language, XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed b ...