| BEEP | Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol |
| BPEL4WS | Business Process Execution Language for Web Services |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets [sic] |
| cXML | Ariba's Commerce XML for B2B transactions |
| c14n | Canonicalization of XML [informal acronym] |
| DAML | DARPA Agent Markup Language |
| DAML+OIL | DARPA Agent Markup Language + Ontology Inference Layer |
| docBook | XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software; from OASIS |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DSSSL | Document Style Semantics and Specification Language |
| ebXML | eBusiness XML (ebXML.org) |
| GXA and WS-Security | Microsoft's Global XML Web Services Architecture |
| HLink | Link recognition for the XHTML Family (cf: XLink) |
| HR-XML | Human Resources XML |
| HumanML | Human Markup Language; from OASIS |
| Infoset | XML Information Set |
| Java WSDP | Web Services Developer Pack, which contains Java XML Pack + JSTL + Apache Tomcat + Ant Build Tool + WSDP Registry Server |
| Java XML Pack | contains JAXM, JAXP, JAXR , JAX-RPC [and soon: JAXB] |
| JAXB | Java Architecture for XML Binding (JSR 31) [see also JAXB page] |
| JAXM | Java APIs for XML Messaging (JSR 67); asynch; SOAP [see also JAXM page] |
| JAXP | Java API for XML Processing (JSR 63); parser-related [see also JAXP page] |
| JAXR | Java API for XML Registries (JSR 93); UDDI-related [see also JAXR page] |
| JAX-RPC | Java API for XML-based RPC (JSR 101); synchronous [see also JAX-RPC page] |
| JSR | Java Specification Request [see all XML JSRs] |
| JDOM | not really an acronym; Java interface to DOM and SAX |
| kXML | small footprint XML pull parser well-suited for Java applications running on mobile devices (e.g., Palm Pilots) |
| LegalXML | electronic exchange of legal data |
| MathML | Mathematical Markup Language |
| m12n | Modularization of XHTML [informal acronym] |
| ns | Namespace [informal acronym] |
| MSXML | Microsoft XML Parser [in IE 5, IE 6, or standalone] |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OIL | Ontology Inference Layer |
| OWL | semantic markup language for publishing and sharing ontologies on the Web, based on DAML+OIL and RDF |
| RDDL | Resource Directory Description Language |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| RELAX | REgular LAnguage description for XML; Schema alternative |
| RELAX NG | next generation schema language for XML: clean, simple and powerful; from OASIS |
| REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
| RSS | Rich Site Summary (aka: RDF Site Summary) |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language; from OASIS |
| SAX | Simple API for XML |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOX | C1's Schema for Object-Oriented XML (basis of xCBL) |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| TREX | Tree Regular Expressions for XML (see RELAX NG) |
| UBL | Universal Business Language (see ebXML and xCBL); from OASIS |
| UDDI | Universal Discovery Description and Integration |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language (Wireless Application Protocol) |
| XACML | eXtensible Access Control Markup Language |
| XBRL | Extensible Business Reporting Language |
| xCBL | Commerce One's XML Common Business Library |
| XDR | XML Data-Reduced (Microsoft's forerunner of XML Schema) |
| XForms | not really an acronym; XML-enabled web forms |
| XHTML | Extensible HyperText Markup Language |
| XInclude | XML Inclusions |
| XKMS | XML Key Management Specification |
| XLink | XML Linking Language (cf: HLink) |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XMLP | XML Protocol [part of W3C Web Services] |
| XPath | XML Path Language |
| XPointer | XML Pointer Language |
| XQuery | XML Query Language |
| XSD | XML Schema |
| XSL | Extensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSL-FO | XSL Formatting Objects (cf: CSS) |
| XSLT | Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations |
| XTM | XML Topic Maps |
See also the ZVON.org XML Glossary
and Betty Harvey's XML Acronym Search.
Last Updated: September 14, 2002
Copyright © 2002 Kenneth B. Sall. All Rights Reserved.