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Organizations creating XML specifications

Name and version of proposed specification

Accounting

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

• XML-based Financial Reporting Markup Language (XFRML) – rolled into XBRL

• eXtensible Business Reporting Language Organization

• eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) – prototype stage

Advertising

• adXML.org:

• adXML – version 1.0

• Newspaper Association of America (NAA) and International Press Telecommunications Council

• News Industry Text Format – version 2.5

• NAA Classified Advertising Standards Task Force

• CREST – version 2.0

Architecture and Construction

• Architecture, Engineering, and Construction XML Working Group 

• aecXML – version 0.87

Astronomy and Space

• Interface & Control Systems Inc.:

• Spacecraft Markup Language (SML) – version 1.05

• NASA

• Astronomical Instrument Markup Language (AIML) –version 0.53

• NASA - The Astronomical Data Center (ADC)

• eXtensible Data Format (XDF) – version 0.17

Automotive

• Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)

• XML/EDI Working Group – in process

• MSR

• Standards for information exchange in the engineering process (MEDOC) – various standards, including MSRNET, MSRREP, MSRSW, MSRSYS, MSRFM

• The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

• XML for the Automotive Industry - SAE J2008 – version 1.01

Aviation and Aerospace

• Air Transport Association:

• ATA 2100 Spec

Banking

• Banking Industry Technology Secretariat (BITS)

• Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) – version 1.0.1

• Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC)

• Bank Internet Payment System (BIPS) – version 1.0

Bibliographies

• MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC):

• MARC – copyrighted by Logos Research Systems

• Ministere de la culture et de la communication, France:

• BiblioML – version 0.3

Catalogs

• MartSoft
• Requisite Technology, Inc.:

• Open Catalog Format (OCF)
• Electronic Catalog XML (eCX) – version 2.0

Communication

• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS):
• Wireless Application Protocol Forum (WAP): 

• Telecommunications Interchange Markup (TIM) – version 2.0
• Wireless Markup Language (WML) – version 1.3

Computer Graphics

• web3D Consortium

• Extensible 3D (X3D) – draft

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – 1.0 candidate

Content Syndication

• Internet Alchemy

• Open Content Syndication (OCS) – version 0.4

• Vignette and others 

• The Information and Content Exchange Protocol (ICE) – see also here – version 1.1

CRM - Customer Relationship Management

• MasterSoft International  

• Name and Address Markup Language (NAML) – version 0.7
• Customer Identity Markup Language (CIML) – version 0.5

• CPExchange Network

• Customer Profile Exchange – version 1.0

Data Mining

• The Data Mining Group (DMG.org)

• Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) – version 1.1

Directory Services

• The DSML Initiative

• Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) – version 1.0

• Novell

• DirXML – version 1.0

Distributed Management

• Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF)

• Common Information Model (CIM) – version 2.2

Economics

• EcoKnowMICS Corp.

• EcoKnowMICS ML

Education

• Educom IMS Project

• IMS Meta-data Specification – version 1.1

• Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) 

• SIF Implementation Specification – version 1.0

Electronic Commerce

• CommerceNet

• eCo Framework – includes Catalog Information Specification, Channel Definition Format (CDF), Common Business Library (CBL), Electronic Data Interchange                  (EDI), Internet Content Exchange (ICE), Open Buying on the Internet (OBI),                   Open Financial Exchange (OFX), Open Trading Protocol (OTP)

• Commerce One

• Common Business Library (CBL)  -- version 2.0

• CXML.org

• Commerce XML (cXML) – version 1.0

• IBM

• Business Rules Markup Language (BRML) – version 1.0
• Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language (tpaML) – now part of ebXML effort – version 1.0.6

• Joint Electronic Commerce Program Office (JECPO)

• Product Data Markup Language (PDML) – version 0.6

• Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) Center for E-Commerce

• PDM XML – version b1.1

• Electronic Business XML Initiative (ebXML)

• ebXML – version 1.0

• Open Trading Protocol group (OTP)

• Open Trading Protocol (OTP)

• Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

• Universal Commerce Language and Protocol (UCLP) – version 3.0

• Visa International (VISA)

• Visa XML Invoice Specification – based on Commerce One’s CBL version 2.0 – version 1.0

• BikeXML.org

• XBRL – prototype stage

• Netegrity and various vendors

• Security Services Markup Language (S2ML) – proposed

• OBI Consortium

• OBI XML – in process

EDI - Electronic Data Interchange

• Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)

• ANSI ASC X12/XML – version 0.2

• EEMA EDI/EC Work Group

• UN/XML Repository –  preliminary

• European Committee for Standardization / Information Society Standardization System (CEN/ISSS)

• The European XML/EDI Pilot Project – draft

• XEDI.org

• XEDI – proposed?

• XML/EDI Group

• XML/EDI – proposed?

Energy

• Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation (POSC)

• WellLogML – version 1.0

Financial and Capital Markets

• Digital Receipt Alliance

• Annotated Digital Receipt – proposed

• S.W.I.F.T.

• swiftML

• Financial Information eXchange protocol (FIX)

• FIXML – version 4.2

• FinXML.org

• FinXML – version 1.0

• FpML.org

• Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) – version 1.0

• Infinity

• Network Trade Model (NTM) – proposed

• Bolero.net

• boleroXML

• Microsoft

• STPML – version 1.0.3

Food

• FormatData

• Document Encoding and Structuring Specification for Electronic Recipe Transfer (DESSERT) -- draft

Forms

• JetForm Corporation

• XML Forms Architecture (XFA) – version 1.0

• UWI.Com

• Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) – version 4.0

• Raosoft

• Electronic Form System – version 1.0

Geography

• OpenGIS Consortium Inc

• Geography Markup Language (GML) – version 1.0

Geophysics, Mining, Petrotechnical

• Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation (POSC)

• WellLogML – version 1.0
• WellSchematicML – proposed
• GeophysicalML -- draft
• Epicentre XML Exchange Format – draft
• eosML – draft

Graphics

• Extensible 3D (X3D) Task Group

• Extensible 3D (X3D) – draft

Healthcare

• Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health XML

• MSDS – 1.02 alpha

• Health Level Seven (HL7)

• HL7 – version 3.0

• Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium

• CDISC ODM – version 1.1

• The Open Healthcare Group

• X-Chart

• XML:DB

• XML:DB – draft

Human Resources

• DataMain

• Human Resources Markup Language (hrml) – standard withdrawn

• HR-XML Consortium

• HR-XML – version 1.0, including:
• JobPosting – draft
• Candidate Profile – draft
• Resume – draft

• XML Resume Library

• XML Résumé Library – version 1.0.1

Industrial Automation

• Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance (MIMOSA)

• Common Relational Information Schema (CRIS) – version 2.1

• Nacimiento Software Corporation

• Virtual Instruments Meta Language (VIML) – version 0.4

Insurance

• ACORD

• ACORD XML – draft

• Lexica

• iLingo™ – proposed

Legal

• U. S. District Court, District of New Mexico

• XML Court Interface (XCI) – proposed

• Richard Himes

• Open XML Court Interface (OXCI) – proposed

• Legal XML Working Group

• LegalXML – proposed

• ContentGuard and others

• eXtensible Rights Markup Language (XRML) – version 1.0

Multimedia

• TableauMedia.com

• Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) – version 2.0

Music

• Bert Schiettecatte
• CifraNet
• Recordare
• Nacimiento Software Corporation
• University of Pretoria, South Africa
• MPEG-7 DDL Working Draft 4.0

• FlowML – version 0.7
• ChordML – proposed
• MusicXML– version 0.6c
• Virtual Instruments Markup Language – version 0.4
• Music Markup Language – proposed
• MPEG-7 Description Definition Language (DDL) – draft

News

• International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)

• News Industry Text Format (NITF) – version 2.5
• NewsML – version 1.0
• XMLNews-Story
• XMLNews-Meta

Productivity

• SyncML.org

• SyncML – version 1.0

Publishing

• Open eBook Initiative
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• Open eBook Publication Structure – version 1.0
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• Openly Informatics, Inc.

• eFirst XML for Scholarly Articles – version 1.0

• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

• DocBook – version 4.1.2

• The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

• TEI – proposed

• VHG.org

• Virtual Hyperglossary (VHG) – draft

Real Estate

• Real Estate Transaction Standard working group (RETS)

• Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) – version 1.0

Retail

• International XML Retail Cooperative

• RedX – version 2.1

Science

• Caltech CACR

• Extensible Scientific Interchange Language (XSIL) – version 1.0

• MoDL Project Team

• Molecular Dynamics Markup Language (MoDL) – version 1.0

• The OpenMath Society

• OpenMath – version 1.0

• Proteometrics

• BIOpolymer Markup Language (BIOML) – draft

• Rosetta Inpharmatics

• Gene Expression Markup Language (GEML) – version 2.0

• Peter Murray Rust

• Chemical Markup Language – version 1.0

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) – version 1.01

Software

• IBM

• Bean Markup Language (BML) – version 2.4

• Flashline.com

• Software Component Documentation DTD – version 1.0

• INRIA

• Koala Bean Markup Language (KBML) – version 2.3

• Marimba and Microsoft

• Open Software Description Format (OSD) – proposed

• Object Management Group (OMG)

• XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) – version 1.1

SCM - Supply Chain Management

• RosettaNet

• RosettaNet – various standards

Telecommunications and Telephony

• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)

• Telecommunications Interchange Markup (TIM) – version 2.04

• Wireless Application Protocol Forum (WAP)

• Wireless Markup Language (WML) – version 1.3

• Telecommunications Markup Language (tML) framework

• VoiceXML Forum

Translation and NLP

• OpenTag

• OpenTag – version 1.2

• Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA)

• Translation Memory exchange (TMX) – version 1.2

Travel

• Open Travel Alliance (OTA)

• Various working groups – in process

User Interface

• Mozilla.org

• Extensible User Interface Language (XUL) – draft

• LANSA, Inc.

• LANSA XML – version 1.0 (AS/400)

• UIML.org

• User Interface Markup Language (UIML) – version 2.0

Voice

• Motorola

• VoxML – superceded by VoiceXML

• Sun Microsystems

• Java Speech Markup Language (JSML) – version 0.7

• VoiceXML Forum

• VoiceXML – version 1.0

Weather

• MetNet

• Weather Observation Definition Format (ODF) – version 1.0

Web Applications

• Allaire

• Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML)

• WebMethods and others

• XML Query Language (XQL) – proposed

• Extensible Log Format project

• Extensible Log Format (XLF) – defunct

• Hiroshima University Information System Laboratory

• Structured Graph Format (SGF) – version 1.0

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

• World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) -- RFC 2518

• Microsoft

• Channel Definition Format (CDF) – submitted to W3C

• Python XML SIG

• XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL) – version 1.0

• UserLand Software, Inc.

• XML-RPC – proposed

• WDDX.org

• Web Distributed Data eXchange (WDDX) -- beta

Web Authoring

• Dragoman

• Xdossier – draft

Workflow

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

• Simple Workflow Access Protocol (SWAP) – draft

• Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)

• Wf-XML – version 1.0