ACSS

Aural Cascading Style Sheets

APPEL

A P3P Preference Exchange Language

CC/PP

Composite Capability/Preference Profiles

CDF

Channel Definition Format - An XML-based data format used in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 and later to describe Active Channel™ content and desktop components.

CIP

Commerce Interchange Pipeline - An infrastructure used by Microsoft® Site Server Commerce Edition to exchange data between applications in XML over HTTP

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets - Formatting descriptions that provide augmented control over presentation and layout of HTML and XML elements. CSS can be used for describing the formatting behavior of simply structured XML documents, but does not provide a display structure that deviates from the structure of the source data..

CSS1

Cascading Style Sheets Level 1

CSS2

Cascading Style Sheets, level 2

DCD

Document Content Description for XML

DDML

Document Definition Markup Language

DOM

Document Object Model - The standard maintained by the W3C that specifies how the content, structure, and appearance of Web documents can be updated programmatically with scripts or other programs. The proposed object model for XML matches the Document Object Model for HTML so that script writers can easily learn XML programming. The XML DOM will provide a simple means of reading and writing data to and from an XML tree structure.

DSO

Data Source Object - Provides data, embedded by use of data binding, into an HTML page. Users can then sort and filter the data as they would a database, without needing to return to the server. DSOs supply data asynchronously to the page, similar to the way GIF images are displayed incrementally as they are transmitted.

DTD

Document Type Definition - The markup declarations that describe a grammar for a class of documents. The DTD is declared within the document type declaration production of the XML file. The markup declarations can be in an external subset (a special kind of external entity), in an internal subset directly within the XML file, or both. The DTD for a document consists of both subsets taken together. See also schema.

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange - An existing format used to exchange data and support transactions. EDI transactions can be conducted only between sites that have been specifically set up with compatible systems.

 XLL

Extensible Linking Language An XML vocabulary that provides links in XML similar to those in HTML but with more functionality. Linking could be multidirectional, and links could exist at the object level rather than just at a page level.

XML

Extensible Markup Language A subset of SGML that provides a uniform method for describing and exchanging structured data in an open, text-based format, and delivers this data by use of the standard HTTP protocol. At the time of this writing, XML 1.0 is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, which means that it is in the final stage of the approval process.

XSL

Extensible Stylesheet Language A language used to transform XML-based data into HTML or other presentation formats, for display in a Web browser. Differs from cascading style sheets in that it can present information in an order different from that in which it was received. XSL will also be able to generate CSS along with HTML. XSL consists of two parts, a vocabulary for transformation and the XSL Formatting Objects

HGML

Hyper Graphics Markup Language

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

ICE

The Information and Content Exchange Protocol

MathML™

Mathematical Markup Language

MPTP

Micro Payment Transfer Protocol

NVML

NaVigation Markup Language

OFX

Open Financial Exchange - A data format used by personal-finance applications to communicate with financial institutions over the Web. Although it is currently described using SGML, OFX will soon be based on XML.

OSD

An XML-based data format for advertising and installing software components over the Internet.

OSD

The Open Software Description Format

P3P

Platform for Privacy Preferences

PGML

Precision Graphics Markup Language

PIDL

Personalized Information Description Language

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

POIX

Point Of Interest eXchange Language Specification

RDF

Resource Description Framework - An object model similar in function to an application programming interface (API), RDF can be used by developers to access the logical meaning of designated content in XML documents.

RDF namespace - A specialized XML syntax designed to provide a limited form of RDF on the Web. See

RDM

Resource Description Messages

SDML

Signed Document Markup Language

SGML

Standard generalised Markup Language - The international standard for defining descriptions of structure and content of electronic documents. XML is a subset of SGML designed to deliver SGML-type information over the Web.

SMIL

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

STTS3

Simple Tree Transformation Sheets 3

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

UCLP

Universal Commerce Language and Protocol

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier - The generic set of all names and addresses that refer to resources, including URLs and URNs. Defined in Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, and L. Masinter, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics. 1997. See updates to the W3C document RFC1738. The Layman-Bray proposal for namespaces makes every element name subordinate to a URI, which would ensure that element names are always unambiguous.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator - The set of URI schemes that have explicit instructions on how to access the resource on the Internet.

URN

A Uniform Resource Name identifies a persistent Internet resource

VML

Vector Markup Language

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium - The international consortium founded in 1994 to develop standards for the Web.

WAP

Binary XML Content Format

WIDL

Web Interface Definition Language

XFDL

Extensible Forms Description Language 4.0

XHTML™1.0:

The Extensible HyperText Markup Language - A Reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0

XLink

XML Linking Language

XLL

Extensible Linking Language - An XML vocabulary that provides links in XML similar to those in HTML but with more functionality. Linking could be multidirectional, and links could exist at the object level rather than just at a page level.

XML

Extensible Markup Language - A subset of SGML that provides a uniform method for describing and exchanging structured data in an open, text-based format, and delivers this data by use of the standard HTTP protocol. At the time of this writing, XML 1.0 is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, which means that it is in the final stage of the approval process.

XML-Data

A proposal, submitted by Microsoft and others to the W3C, to define a number of common scalar data types that can be applied to elements. The XML-Data proposal includes the concept of XML schemas.

XML declaration

The first line of an XML file can optionally contain the "xml" processing instruction, which is known as the XML declaration. The XML declaration can contain pseudo-attributes to indicate the XML language version, the character set, and whether the document can be used as a standalone entity.

XML document

A data object that is well-formed, according to the XML recommendation, and that might (or might not) be valid. The XML document has a logical structure (composed of declarations, elements, comments, character references, and processing instructions) and a physical structure (composed of entities, starting with the root, or document entity).

XML engine

Software that supports XML functionality on the client; Internet Explorer 4.0 and Internet Explorer 5 include XML engines.

XML DSO

XML Data Source Object - A Data Source Object that provides a way to bind HTML elements directly to an XML data island. It assists developers in connecting to structured XML data and supplying it to an HTML page by using the data-binding facility of dynamic HTML.

XML OM

XML Object Model - An API that defines a standard way in which developers can interact with the elements of the XML structured tree. The object model controls how users communicate with trees, and exposes all tree elements as objects, which can be accessed without any return trips to the server. The XML OM uses the W3C standard Document Object Model.

XML parser

A generalized XML parser reads XML files and generates a hierarchically structured tree, then hands off data to viewers and other applications for processing. A validating XML parser also checks the XML syntax and reports errors.

XML-QL

A Query Language for XML - A term used to describe a set of extensions to XSL Patterns proposed to the W3C

xmlSchema

Schema for Object-Oriented XML 2.0

XML vocabulary

The actual elements used in particular data formats. Channel Definition Format, for example, is a format for describing collections of pages and when these pages should be downloaded. Vocabularies, along with the structural relationships between the elements, can be defined in a DTD or a schema.

valid XML

XML that conforms to the vocabulary specified in a DTD or schema.

well-formed XML

XML that meets the requirements listed in the W3C Recommendation for XML 1.0: It contains one or more elements; it has a single document element, with any other elements properly nested under it; each of the parsed entities referenced directly or indirectly within the document is well-formed. A well-formed XML document does not necessarily include a DTD.

XPath

XML Path Language

XPointer

XML Pointer Language

XSL

Extensible Stylesheet Language - A language used to transform XML-based data into HTML or other presentation formats, for display in a Web browser. Differs from cascading style sheets in that it can present information in an order different from that in which it was received. XSL will also be able to generate CSS along with HTML. XSL consists of two parts, a vocabulary for transformation and the XSL Formatting Objects

XQL

XML Query Language

XSL

Extensible Stylesheet Language

XSL Formatting Objects

A set of formatting semantics expressed as an XML vocabulary. Part of XSL.

XSL Patterns

Part of XSL that provides simple querying capability against an XML document. Internet Explorer 5 supports XSL Patterns with some of the extensions described in XML Query Language.

XSLT

XSL Transformations