List of XML markup languages

A

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

Agricultural Ontology Service

AIML Markup language used for creating artificial intelligence chatterbots.

Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML): format for capturing a person's interests and dislikes

Atom (standard): The Atom Syndication Format is a language used for web feeds

Automated Test Markup Language (ATML): defines a standard exchange medium for sharing information between components of automatic test systems.

Attention.xml

aecXML: a mark-up language which uses Industry Foundation Classes to create a vendor-neutral means to access data generated by Building Information Modeling.

Auto-lead Data Format: an open XML-based standard specifically for communicating consumer purchase requests to automotive dealerships.

B

BeerXML: a free XML based data description standard for the exchange of brewing data [1]

Binary Format Description language: an extension of XSIL which has added conditionals and the ability to reference files by their stream numbers, rather than by their public URLs

Biological Dynamics Markup Language (BDML) is an XML format for quantitative data describing biological dynamics.

Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) is an XML dialect for defining business intelligence (BI) assets.

Business Process Execution Language: a business process modeling language that is executable

C

Call Control eXtensible Markup Language: a standard designed to provide telephony support to VoiceXML

CellML: a language describing mathematical models

Channel Definition Format

Chemical Markup Language

ClaML : Classification Markup Language for health informatics, accepted as European Norm EN 14463:2007.

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium

Clinical Document Architecture

CMRL: a markup language for concise message content

COLLADA: a standard for exchanging digital assets among various graphics software applications

Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

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

D

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA): A document format used by publishers

Data center markup language

Diag-ML for Integrated Diagnostics and Health Management

dicML for monolingual and bilingual dictionaries

Digital Forensics XML

Dimensional Markup Language

Directory Service Markup Language

DisplayML

DocBook: a markup language for technical documentation.

Document Schema Definition Languages

Document Structure Description: a schema language for XML

DotML

E

EAC: Encoded Archival Context

EAD: Encoded Archival Description

ebXML: a collection of Electronic Business specifications

eLML: eLesson Markup Language

EMML Enterprise Mashup Markup Language

ENML: eNotarization Markup Language

ENML: Evernote Markup Language

EPPML: Extensible Postal Product Model and Language

EPUB: electronic publication, open e-book format

Extensible Application Markup Language

Extensible Data Format

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

Extensible Provisioning Protocol

Extensible Resource Identifier

Extensible Stylesheet Language

F

Facelets VDL: View declaration language used in the Facelets framework and JavaServer Faces.

FDCML: Field Device Configuration Markup Language

FDML: Flow Description Markup Language, obsolete language from IBM, superseded by BPEL, used for making executable business process/workflow models for WebSphere Application Server

FicML: Fiction Markup Language

FictionBook: an e-book format

FieldML: Field Modelling/Markup Language

FleXML: an XML transformation language

FpML: Financial Products Markup Language

Financial Transaction eXchange: FTX a finance specific derivation of XML

FXT: transformation specification for the Functional XML Transformation Tool

G

Geography Markup Language: a grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features

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

GJXDM: a data reference model for the exchange of information within the justice and public safety communities

GPX: a language designed for transferring GPS data between software applications

GraphML: a standard exchange format for graphs

GuideML

GXA: an extension of SOAP being worked on by Microsoft, IBM and some other developers

GXL: a standard exchange format for graphs

Green Building XML: also known as "gbXML", a schema to facilitate the transfer of building properties stored in 3D building information models (BIM) to engineering analysis tools, especially energy and building performance analysis

H

HelpML

HML (Histoimmunogenics Markup Language)

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

HunspellXML: human-readable intermediate format for producing Hunspell dictionary files

I

Information and Content Exchange

Industry Foundation Classes: specifically the "ifcXML" format, defined by ISO 10303-28 ("STEP-XML"), having file extension ".ifcXML". This format is suitable for interoperability with XML tools and exchanging partial building models.

Immersive Media Markup Language: also known as IMML, used to define 3D spaces in the VastPark 3D platform.

J

JATS: a vocabulary used for the preparation and publication of scholarly articles.

Java Speech Markup Language: a language for annotating text input to speech synthesizers.

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

Job Submission Description Language: describes simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems

K

Keyhole Markup Language: geographic annotation

L

LandXML: a non-proprietary standard for data exchange among the land development, civil engineering and surveying communities. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Land and Infrastructure Standards Working Group (LandInfraSWG) developed a UML as-is conceptual model of LandXML-1.2 that revealed problems with LandXML and broad disparity with the OGC standards baseline. The OGC LandInfraSWG will develop a new candidate standard – the OGC InfraGML Encoding Standard – that provides a use case driven subset of LandXML functionality, but is implemented with GML and supported by a UML conceptual model. Work is being done jointly with buildingSMART International.

Lenex: exchange format for swimming data

Lightweight Interactive Multimedia Environment (LIME): An XML/HTML-based application framework for IPTV service

LGML: Linguistics Markup Language, for describing natural languages

Link contract

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

M

MARCXML: a schema developed by the Library of Congress to enable the sharing and accessing of bibliographic information

MathML: a language describing mathematical notation

Medical Markup Language

MapjectsFML: a declarative Mapjects language describing mathematical fraud probability in financial transactions also supports interop for IFX

Medical Reality Markup Language (MRML)

Microformats: a piece mark up that allows expression of semantics in an HTML (or XHTML) web page

MOWL: semantic interactions with multimedia content

Music Encoding Initiative (MEI): an XML-based language for digital representations of music notation documents.

Music Markup Language

MusicXML: an XML-based music notation file format.

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

MJML: a preprocesser definition to markup Mapjects structure for logistics assets under project automation

N

Namespace Routing Language

Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language

National Information Exchange Model

Nested Context Language

NewsML: provides a media-independent, structural framework for multi-media news (Superseded by NewsML-G2)

NewsML-G2: an XML multimedia news exchange format standard of the IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council

NeXML: an XML representation of the NeXus data format

NeuroML: computational neuroscience models

O

ODD: A 'One Document Does-it-all' TEI format for simultaneously recording project documentation and meta-schema definition from which you can generate RELAX NG, W3C XML Schema, and DTDs as well as formatted documentation.

ODRL: an XML-based standard Rights Expression Language (REL) used in Digital Rights Management systems

Office Open XML: is a Microsoft file format specification for the storage of electronic documents

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

OIOXML: an XML-markup language created by the Danish government to ease communication from, to and between Danish governmental instances

Open Mathematical Documents (OMDoc), based on OpenMath and MathML, but with a greater coverage.

OML: an XML format for outlines, based on OPML.

Open eBook: the e-book format defined by Open eBook Publication Structure Specification; superseded by ePub.

Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS), an XML-markup schema that defines tags for marking up Bibles, theological commentaries, and other related literature.

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

OpenMath - a markup language for mathematical formulae which can complement MathML.

OPML: an XML format for outlines

P

phyloXML - XML for phylogenetic and phylogenomic applications

PMML - XML for predictive analytics and data mining

PNML - Petri Net Markup Language

PDBML - XML for Protein Data Bank

R

RailML: language for interoperability in railway industry applications.

RAML: vocabulary for describing relational algebra expressions

RDFa

RDF Inference Language

RecipeML

Regular Language description for XML

RELAX NG: a schema language

REML : Recipe Exchange Markup Language, non-proprietary (BSD license), English-based

Remote Telescope Markup Language

Resource Description Framework: a metadata model based upon the idea of making statements about web resources

RoadXML: file format for driving simulator database.

RSS (file format)

RSS enclosure

RuleML: a markup language for rules

S

S5 file format: slideshow data

SAML: authentication and authorization data

SBML: models of biological processes

SBGN: graphical representation of cellular processes and biological networks

SDML: Data for marine electronics shared on Internet

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

SCORM: XML for web-based e-learning

SCXML: provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on Harel statecharts

Shopinfo.xml: provides shop and product data.

Simple Sharing Extensions

SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language describes multimedia presentations

SOAP: a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer networks

SOAP with Attachments: the method of using Web Services to send and receive files using a combination of SOAP and MIME, primarily over HTTP.

Speech Application Language Tags

Speech Synthesis Markup Language: a language for speech synthesis applications

SPML: user, resource and service provisioning information

Strategy Markup Language (StratML): an XML vocabulary and schema for strategic and performance plans and reports

Streaming Transformations for XML: a XML transformation language intended as a high-speed, low memory consumption alternative to XSLT.

SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics

SXBL: defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in SVG

T

TagML: Markup an XML file for translation purpose by identifying tags and content in "normal", "internal", or "external" styles. "Normal" text are translatable, "internal" text are involved in translation, but not translatable, "external" text are excluded from translation.

Text Encoding Initiative – guidelines for text encoding, with schemas and a mechanism to customise to individual project needs.

ThML – Theological Markup Language created by Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), to create electronic theological texts.

Topicmaps

TransducerML – Open Geospatial Consortium language for describing sensors and their output

Translation Memory eXchange (TMX): translation memory data

TREX: a simple schema language

TumorML: Markup for describing and exchanging computational cancer models.

Twitter Markup Language (TML): Twitter markup language - subset of RTML - both created by Jack Hidary - managed by the non-profit TML Consortium

U

Universal Description Discovery and Integration: a registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet

UnitsML: project underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a schema for encoding scientific units of measure in XML.

V

Vector Markup Language: used to produce vector graphics, implemented in Microsoft Office 2000 and higher

Vexi: an international effort to create an easy-to-use platform for the development and delivery of internet application interfaces

Video Ad Serving Template VAST - Video Ad Serving Template - IAB sponsored language for use in delivery of inline/linear and non-linear video advertising online.

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

W

W3C MMI

WDDX: Web Distributed Data eXchange

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

Web feed

Web Ontology Language: a language for defining and instantiating Web ontologies (a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts)

Web Services Flow Language: an XML language proposed by IBM to describe the composition of Web services, later superseded by BPEL

Web Services Description Language: an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services

Web Services Dynamic Discovery: a technical specification that defines a multicast discovery protocol to locate services on a local network.

Wellsite information transfer standard markup language

WML Wireless Markup Language

WiX: Windows installers data

WordprocessingML: a file format specification for the storage of electronic documents

WS-Policy

X

X3D: Extensible 3D (X3D) is an international standard for real-time 3D computer graphics, the successor to Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)

XAML: a declarative XML-based vector graphics markup language

XACML: eXtensible Access Control Markup Language

XAP: Antenna patterns

XBEL : the XML Bookmark Exchange Language.

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

XBRL: an open data standard for financial reporting.

xCBL: a collection of XML specifications for use in e-business.

xCal: the XML-compliant representation of the iCalendar standard

XCES: an XML based standard to codify text corpus

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

XDuce: an XML transformation language

XDXF: for monolingual and bilingual dictionaries

XFA: enhance the processing of web forms

XForms: a format for the specification of a data processing model for XML data and user interface(s) for the XML data, such as web forms

XFT: a XML language used in travel industry

XHTML: a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but with a syntax conforming to XML

XHTML Basic

XHTML Friends Network

XHTML Modularization

XidML: an open standard used within the flight test instrumentation industry that describes instrumentation and how data is acquired, stored, transmitted and processed

XInclude: a processing model and syntax for general purpose XML inclusion

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

XLink: a language used for creating hyperlinks in XML documents

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

XML Encryption: a specification that defines how to encrypt the content of an XML element

XML Information Set: describing an abstract data model of an XML document in terms of a set of information items

XML Interface for Network Services: definition and implementation of internet applications, enforcing a specification-oriented approach.

XML Resource: provide a platform independent way of describing windows in a GUI

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

XML Script: an XML transformation language, or a Microsoft technology preview for scripting web browsers

XML Signature: an XML syntax for digital signatures

XML for Analysis: data access in analytical systems, such as OLAP and Data Mining

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

XML-RPC: a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism

XMLmosaic - A programming language contained in xml code. The xml describes relationships between classes and contains the procedures.

XMLTerm: A Mozilla-based Semantic User Interface

XMLTV: a format to represent TV listings.

XMLVM: A format used to convert java .class files and .NET .exe files into other languages such as JavaScript or Objective-C

XOMGL: obtain large amounts of data from municipal government agencies.

XOXO: an XML microformat for publishing outlines, lists, and blogrolls on the Web

XPDL: interchange Business Process definitions between different workflow products

XPath (or XPath 1.0): an expression language for addressing portions of an XML document

XPath 2.0: a language for addressing portions of XML documents, successor of XPath 1.0

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

XProc : a W3C standard language to describe XML Pipeline

XQuery: a query language designed to query collections of XML data (similar to SQL)

XrML: the eXtensible Rights Markup Language, or the Rights Expression Language (REL) for MPEG-21

XRules: a rules language that expresses constraints, calculations, interdependencies, and properties that describe and exist among elements and attributes of an XML document

XSIL: an XML-based transport language for scientific data

XSL Formatting Objects: a markup language for XML document formatting which is most often used to generate PDFs

XSL Transformations: a language used for the transformation of XML documents.

XSPF: a playlist format for digital media

XTCE: describes binary blocks for telemetry and command exchange

XUL: a XML user interface markup language developed by the Mozilla project.

XUpdate: a lightweight query language for modifying XML data