List of XML schemas

This is a list of XML schemas 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.

Bookmarks

• XBEL - XML Bookmark Exchange Language

Business

• ARTSXML - Retail XML schema specifications by Association for Retail Technology Standards [1]
• PCXML and TXLife - Insurance Industry XML schema specifications by Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development [2]
• UBL - Defining a common XML library of business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc.) by Oasis
• HR-XML - Human resources ([3])
• XBRL Extensible Business Reporting Language for International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP business accounting.
• Strategy Markup Language (StratML)
• OSCRE Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate format for data exchange within the real estate industry
• IFC-XML Building Information Models for architecture, engineering, construction, and operations.

Elections

• EML, Election Markup Language, is an OASIS standard to support end to end management of election processes. It defines over thirty schemas, for example EML 510 for vote count reporting and EML 310 for voter registration.

Financial

• FpML, 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.
• 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.

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.

Graphical User Interfaces

• JAXFront - JAXFront GUI generator (free community edition)
• GLADE - GNOME's User Interface Language (GTK+)
• KParts - KDE's User Interface Language (Qt)
• XUL - XML User Interface Language (Native)
• XForms - XForms
• XAML - Microsoft's Extensible Application Markup Language

Industrial Property

• TM-XML - Trade Mark Information Exchange Standard
• DS-XML - Industrial Design Information Exchange Standard

Math and Science

• MathML - Mathematical Markup Language
• ANSI N42.42 or "N42" - NIST data format standard for radiation detectors used for Homeland Security

Metadata

• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• ONIX for Books [4] - ONline Information eXchange, developed and maintained by EDItEUR jointly with Book Industry Communication (UK) and the Book Industry Study Group (US), and with user groups in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the Republic of Korea.
• DDML - reformulations XML DTD

Music Playlists

• XSPF - XML Shareable Playlist Format

News Syndication

• Atom - Atom
• RSS - Really Simple Syndication

Paper and Forest Products

• papiNet - XML format for exchange of business documents and product information in the paper and forest products industries.
• EPPML - an XML conceptual model for the interactions between parties of a postal communication system.

Publishing

• NLM DTD, journal publishing DTD from the United States National Library of Medicine

• DITA—Darwin Information Typing Architecture, document authoring system

Parser

• JAXP, Java XML API.
• SAX, serial access XML parser, a popular alternative to DOM.
• XDR

Statistics

• SDMX - SDMX-ML is a format for exchange and sharing of Statistical Data and Metadata.

Vector Images

• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics

See also

• List of XML markup languages
• XML Schema Language Comparison
• XML transformation language
• XML pipeline
• Data Format Description Language

External links

• Schema Documentation Library
• Schema Library XML Schema Library from Altova