Advertising
XML implementations in the advertising industry.
Bioinformatics
Work being done with XML in the field of Bioinformatics: the application of computational and analytical methods to biological problems.
Business Consortia
Consortiums supporting the open development of industry-specific XML frameworks and vocabularies.
Commerce
XML languages and technologies specifically designed to facilitate electronic commerce.
DTDs
Links direct to the DTDs of various XML vocabularies.
Food
XML vocabularies for the food and restaurant industry.
Industrial
Vocabularies and software designed to facilitate trading within the industrial sector (Gas or Metals, etc.
Insurance
XML vocabularies and initiatives in the Insurance industry.
Legal
Vocabularies describing legal information and analysis of the legal implications surrounding the use of: metadata registries, digital transactions, schemas, agents, linking, and other XML-related technologies.
Medical
XML applications within the medical industry.
Music
Music-related XML vocabularies designed to express everything from musical scores, to basic notation, to synthesis diagrams and more.
OASIS
Informational links and specifications from OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards).
Real Estate
XML applications within the real estate industry.
Space Exploration
XML vocabularies and software in the field of space exploration
and astronomy.
Syndication
XML implementations dealing with content repurposing and syndication.
Telecommunications
Specifications and technologies in the telecommunications, broadcast (tv and radio), and cable industries.
Travel
Vocabularies and software dealing with the vertical industry of Travel.
Weather
Vocabularies and software dealing with the vertical industry of "weather".
Articles
Directory Trees to Document Trees
By John E. Simpson
In this month's XML Tourist, John E. Simpsons discusses TreeSpace, a hard disk space analysis tool that uses XML to represent data portably. [Mar. 30, 2005]
The Silent Soundtrack
By John E. Simpson
In this installation of XML Tourist, John E. Simpson presents an overview of the types of sound-to-text captioning available. Pinpointing closed captioning as the most suitable for use with computerized multimedia, he then explains how XML-based solutions address synchronization issues. [Feb. 2, 2005]
Mapping and Markup, Part 2
By John E. Simpson
In the final part of his XML Tourist column's exploration of GML, John E. Simpson introduces us to the component schema parts as well as to some GML software. [Dec. 29, 2004]
News Standards: A Rising Tide of Commoditization
By Jo Rabin
How can news providers persuade customers to accept new standard formats? Does RSS threaten or present opportunity to the news industry. Jo Rabin comments on the state of standards in the news industry. [May. 5, 2004]
Marking Up Bureaucracy
By Paul Ford
Needing to cope with its enormous needs for document and data
exchange, the United States is looking more and more to XML. Paul Ford
explains what happens when Washington meets markup. [Sep. 24, 2003]
Business at XML 2002
By Alan Kotok
Rounding up the news from the business side of the recent XML 2002 conference, Alan Kotok reports an increase in government clients for XML businesses. [Jan. 8, 2003]
Business Maps: Topic Maps Go B2B
By Marc de Graauw
Marc de Graauw shows how topic maps can be used to help solve interoperability problems between XML B2B vocabularies. [Aug. 21, 2002]
Interoperability Summit: Good Intentions, Little Action
By Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok reports from the second interoperability summit organized by e-business standards groups. He finds that it's still early days for e-business interoperability, and many more players need to come to the table. [Jul. 10, 2002]
Government and Finance Industry Urge Caution on XML
By Alan Kotok
The XML world recently received a double-dose of sobering news, as reports from both the U.S. General Accounting Office and NACHA, an electronic payments organization, urged their constituents
to move cautiously on any commitment to
XML. [Apr. 24, 2002]
Interoperate or Evaporate
By Alan Kotok
Last week's business standards interoperability summit resulted in a clear message to standards groups from vendors: learn to work together or lose your support. [Dec. 12, 2001]
XML in Electronic Court Filing
By Ken Pittman
An overview of how XML is finding application in several electronic court filing pilot schemes throughout the US. [Nov. 14, 2001]
When the Going Gets Tough: Real World XML
By Alan Kotok
When XML gets deployed in businesses, it's modeling and interoperability that prove key. But is that enough to meet the demands posed by today's economic circumstances? [Oct. 3, 2001]
ebXML: It Ain't Over 'til it's Over
By Alan Kotok
The final meeting of the Electronic Business XML initiative in Vienna marked the 18-month deadline set for the project, yet there is still plenty left to do. [May. 16, 2001]
Can XML Help Write the Law?
By Alan Kotok
A report from the Conference on Congressional Organizations' Application of XML, where both the mechanics and the public benefits of making legislation available in XML were discussed. [May. 9, 2001]
OASIS Technical Committee Work
By Karl F. Best
The mission of OASIS is to promote and encourage the use of structured information standards such as XML and SGML. This report describes the work in which OASIS is currently engaged. [Jan. 3, 2001]
The Rush to Standardize
By Leigh Dodds
Keeping track of the number of consortia in the XML space is rapidly requiring the effort needed to track the burgeoning number of specifications. Is all this "standardization" too premature? XML-Deviant covers the recent debate. [Oct. 18, 2000]
ebXML: Assembling the Rubik's Cube
By Alan Kotok
The fourth meeting of the Electronic Business XML working group sees the intiative make good progress. But will the group be able to meet its self-imposed 18-month deadline? [Aug. 16, 2000]
Even More Extensible
By Alan Kotok
Since our first survey of XML business vocabularies in February this year, the number of entries in our tables has more than doubled, highlighting the large push forward in vertical and cross-industry standardization activity. [Aug. 2, 2000]
XML in News Syndication
By Edd Dumbill
XML has found many applications in the news industry for overcoming the challenges posed by the Web. This article examines the technologies, and looks at the future of news syndication with XML. [Jul. 17, 2000]
Extensible and More
By Alan Kotok
Two years after the XML 1.0 Recommendation, we see XML being applied in many areasespecially e-business. Alan Kotok takes a snapshot of XML e-business activity. [Feb. 23, 2000]
Object Design becomes eXcelon Corp.
By Simon St. Laurent
XML is here to stay: Object Design has renamed itself after its flagship XML product, eXcelon. Simon St.Laurent reports on the name change and eXcelon Corp.'s new range of XML products. [Feb. 2, 2000]
Schema Repositories: What's at Stake?
By Liora Alschuler
Why exactly are schema repositories useful? How do Microsoft's BizTalk and OASIS's XML.org compare, and are they both missing the point? [Jan. 26, 2000]
P3P: An Emerging Privacy Standard
By Lisa Rein
The W3C has released the latest draft of a privacy protocol that should let agents work smoothly between browsers and web sites, in accordance with the user's preferences. Also, Microsoft and Trust-E have developed a wizard to help site owners create privacy guidelines. [May. 5, 1999]
Low-Rent Virtual Reality with XML
By Tim Bray
3DML is almost XML - though you wouldn't know it from its creator's marketing information. This 'economy' virtual reality language has some benefits that VRML doesn't, and proves that you can use XML to do some surprising things. [Jan. 19, 1999]
The doctor will see you now
By Lisa Rein, Tim Bray
Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 5) [Dec. 19, 1998]
Standards to the rescue!
By Lisa Rein, Tim Bray
Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 2) [Dec. 19, 1998]
How it works
By Lisa Rein, Tim Bray
Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 4) [Dec. 19, 1998]
Chemical Markup Language
By Peter Murray-Rust
In this article, we describe the role of the XM
L-LANG specification in supporting this. Examples are supplied explaining how components can be managed and how documents can be processed, with an emphasis on scientific and technical publishing. [Oct. 2, 1997]
Codifying Medical Records in XML
By Thomas L. Lincoln, M.D.
This paper was given as a talk at the "XML Mixer" in La Jolla, California in late July '97, before a combined audience of clinicians, computing profess
ionals, and vendors of document processing software. [Oct. 2, 1997]