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20 unusual facts about .XML


Astronomical year numbering

Version 1.0 of the XML Schema language, often used to describe data interchanged between computers in XML, includes built-in primitive datatypes date and dateTime.

Building management system

Vendors are also producing BMSs that integrate using Internet protocols and open standards such as DeviceNet, SOAP, XML, BACnet, LonWorks and Modbus.

Comtex

Its processing includes adding stock ticker symbols, indexing by keyword and category and converting diverse publisher materials and formats into the industry standard delivery format NewsML, an XML derivative.

Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold is the author of several books on Java and XML and the creator of XOM, an open source Java class library for processing XML data.

Epedigree

CBOP has proposed an XML standard document and the law requires an "interoperable electronic system".

IWXXM

IWXXM (ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model) is a format for reporting weather information in XML.

IWXXM includes XML-based representations for products standardized in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex III and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) No. 49, Vol II, such as METAR, SPECI, TAF, and SIGMET.

Jonathan Borden

He is an advisor for the Science Directorate of NASA, has been an invited expert for the World Wide Web Consortium Web Ontology Working Group and has been actively involved in the development and standardization of XML based electronic medical records.

Marek Jerzy Minakowski

For the beginning, Minakowski prepared the densely tagged XML edition of Adam Boniecki's Herbarz Polski (originally 17 volumes or 6500 pages published between 1899 and 1913, with genealogies of about 0.3 million people living since 13th to 20th century).

Michael Beddow

Michael Beddow is a British specialist in German literature, who is also a renowned expert in the application of XML technologies to web representations of literary corpora, and who is deeply involved with the work of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

Nochex

All payments made via Nochex support the 3D Secure XML standard designed to reduce the risk of fraudulent card holder not present transactions, and are PCI compliant.

R. T. Crowley

Robert also served as Chair of the X12 Security Task Group for a number of years, and was one of the authors of the X12 technical report on the use of Extensible Markup Language XML for conducting EDI.

Regulated Product Submissions

Therefore, the goal of RPS is to create an HL7 XML message standard for submitting information to regulatory authorities.

SQLXML

SQL/XML, extension to the SQL standard that specifies SQL-based extensions for using XML in conjunction with SQL.

Stefano Ceri

extending database technologies for incorporating data distribution, deductive rules, active rules, and query languages for XML

Well-formed

Well-formed element, an element in webpage design; see also well-formed XML

XML-binary Optimized Packaging

The MIME packaging mechanism is the most widely used, since XOP is usually used to represent SOAP messages with MTOM.

XML-RPC

The generic use of XML for remote procedure call (RPC) was patented by Phillip Merrick, Stewart Allen, and Joseph Lapp in April 2006, claiming benefit to a provisional application filed in March 1998.

XOP

XML-binary Optimized Packaging, a W3C recommendation for embedding binary data in XML

Yamigo

::"We would like to stress the fact that we see a benefit in using some chat clients over others. For example, most of the existing Nokia and Ericsson phones use a compressed version of the data exchange protocol, known as WBXML, while Motorola chat clients use plain XML. Motorola generate data transfers ten times higher than Nokia and Sony-Ericsson phones."


American National Corpus

By using a freely provided transduction tool, the corpus and user-chosen annotations is provided in multiple formats, including the XML format conformant to the XML Corpus Encoding Standard (XCES) (usable with the British National Corpus's XAIRA search engine), a UIMA-compliant format, and formats suitable for input to a wide variety of concordance software.

Ann Rockley

It is a beginner's guide to understanding the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering information.

ATA 100

More recently, the international aviation community developed the S1000D standard, an XML specification for preparing, managing, and using equipment maintenance and operations information.

CAML

Collaborative Application Markup Language, an XML-based markup language used with the Microsoft SharePoint collaborative portal application

Canonical S-expressions

Thus, XML can be "configured" for particular kinds of data, which conform to some grammar (say, HTML, ATOM, SVG, MathML, or new ones as needed).

CodeRush

It supports C# 4.0, VB10, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XAML and C++.

Comparison of the Java and .NET platforms

Rather than using Java, HD DVD (the defunct high definition successor to DVD) used a technology jointly developed by Microsoft and Disney called HDi that was based on XML, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies that are comparable to those used by standard Web browsers.

CookXml

Except for CDATA nodes, the three above types of actions can handle all elements in an XML document.

Database trigger

Triggers in Sedna were designed to be analogous to SQL:2003 triggers, but natively base on XML query and update languages (XPath, XQuery and XML update language).

David Webber

He holds two US software patents on XML and EDI technologies that have been widely referenced by 37 other patent applications from leading implementing companies such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, AT&T, GE, SAP, NEC and Dell.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

In 2001, with the help of Humanities Computing XML specialist Michael Beddow, the dictionaries were placed on the web in XML format with a search engine.

Ed Tittel

He is well known for his contributions to the best selling HTML for Dummies, HTML4 for Dummies, and has also authored For Dummies books on XHTML and XML.

Gcov

The XML reports generated by gcovr can be used by Jenkins to provide graphical code coverage summaries.

Help authoring tool

The output from a HAT can be either a compiled Help file in a format such as WinHelp (*.HLP) or Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (*.CHM), or noncompiled file formats such as Adobe PDF, XML, HTML or JavaHelp.

History of Internet Explorer

Bi-directional text, ruby text and direct XML/XSLT support were included in this release, along with enhanced support for CSS Level 1 and 2.

Information set

XML Information Set or Infoset, a W3C specification dealing with XML documents

Intelligent code completion

IntelliSense is now supported by the Visual Studio editors for C++, C#, J#, Visual Basic, XML, HTML and XSLT among others.

International Press Telecommunications Council

NewsML is an XML standard developed by the IPTC to provide a media-independent, structural enveloping framework for multi-media news.

Kandaulos

One of them was sweet, and is described by one Hellenistic source as a πλακοῦς, flat cake.

Media Lovin' Toolkit

An XML authoring schema designed to leverage the full capabilities of the system

Nucleus CMS

XML-RPC interface: Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs: Nucleus provides implementations of the Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs allowing Nucleus CMS can be used with tools like w.Bloggar, Ecto, Zempt, ...

OpenXDF

OpenXDF requires the use of a XML 1.0 compliant parser that supports UTF-8 and UTF-16.

PCGen

The character sheets can also be exported in various kinds of XML, HTML, and PDF formats.

PPML

PPML (Personalized Print Markup Language) is an XML-based industry standard printer language for variable data printing defined by PODi.

PreviewNetworks

For media owners, Preview Networks offers video content integrations available as an HTML embed or XML feed solution to increase audience loyalty and drive traffic.

Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus, originally called Quanta, is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages.

Simple public-key infrastructure

The most prominent general deployments of SPKI/SDSI are E-speak, a middleware product from HP that used SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, and UPnP Security, that uses an XML dialect of SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, delegation of rights among network participants, etc.

SOA Security

Regulatory certification for XML gateway security features are provided by FIPS and United States Department of Defense.

Stax

StAX, (Computer Programming) Streaming API for reading and writing XML in Java

Streaming XML

Another popular use of this term refers to one method of consuming XML data – largely known as Simple API for XML.

Syntext Serna

Serna XML Editor offers multi-channel publishing, including out-of-the-box publishing to HTML and external publishing to PDF with FOP, XEP, or Antenna House XSL Formatter.

TigerLogic

An enterprise class XML Database Management Server for the emerging XML market to address the growing need for managing and querying native XML data and the ability to handle structured and unstructured data.

TScript

TVariable are hierarchical in nature and are very similar to XML, JavaScript and PHP variables.

UserLand Software

SOAP evolved from XML-RPC and was designed as an object-access protocol by Dave Winer, Don Box, Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein in 1998, with backing from Microsoft, where Atkinson and Al-Ghosein worked at the time.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.

XCRI

eLearning commentator Stephen Downes has criticised XCRI for developing a new XML specification rather than basing it on RSS, which would enable courses to be aggregated using existing technologies.

XML firewall

A number of brands of XML Firewall exist and they often differ based on parameters like performance (with or without hardware acceleration, 32 Vs 64 bit), scalability (how do they cluster and perform under load), security certification (common criteria, FIPS being the most common), identity support (for SAML, OAuth, enterprise SSO solutions) and extensibility (they can support different transport protocols like IBM MQ, Tibco EMS, etc.).

XML schema

Two more expressive XML schema languages in widespread use are XML Schema (with a capital S) and RELAX NG.

XML Signature

Moreover, if an XML document is transferred from computer to computer, the line terminator may be changed from CR to LF to CR LF, etc.

XPages

XPages base internally on JavaServer Faces, but the sources of a XPages pages are an XML derivative called XSP which is translated into Java code when running the applications.