List of types of XML schemas


This is a list of notable 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

Brewing

  • BeerXML - a free XML based data description standard for the exchange of brewing data

Business

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.

Engineering

Financial

  • FIXatdl - FIX algorithmic trading definition language. Schema provides a HCI between a human trader, the order entry screen, unlimited different algorithmic trading types from a variety of sources, and formats a new order message on the FIX wire.
  • FIXML - Financial Information eXchange protocol is an electronic communications protocol initiated in 1992 for international real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets.
  • FpML - Financial products Markup Language is the industry-standard protocol for complex financial products. It is based on XML, 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.
  • SensorML - used for describing sensors and measurement processes

Graphical user interfaces

Humanities texts

  • EpiDoc - Epigraphic Documents
  • TEI - Text Encoding Initiative

Intellectual property

Libraries

Math and science

Metadata

Music playlists

Musical notation

News 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

Statistics

  • DDI - "Data Documentation Initiative" is a format for information describing statistical and social science data.
  • SDMX - SDMX-ML is a format for exchange and sharing of Statistical Data and Metadata.

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