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.

1 Bookmarks
2 Business
3 Elections
4 Financial
5 Geotagging
6 Graphical User Interfaces
7 Industrial Property
8 Math and Science
9 Metadata
10 Music Playlists
11 News Syndication
12 Paper and Forest Products
13 Publishing
14 Parser
15 Statistics
16 Vector Images
17 See also
18 Notes
19 External links

Bookmarks

XBEL - XML Bookmark Exchange Language

Business

ARTSXML - Retail XML schema specifications by Association for Retail Technology Standards [1]
UBL - Defining a common XML library of business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc.) by Oasis
HR-XML - Human resources ([2])
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^[1]

Metadata

RDF - Resource Description Framework
ONIX for Books [3] - 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 ^[2]

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.