Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C Recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. Open alternative to Flash and MS ShadowLight ?
XBEL, or the XML Bookmark Exchange Language, is an open XML standard for sharing Internet URIs, also known as bookmarks (or favorites in Internet Explorer). An example of XBEL use is the XBELicious application, which stores Del.icio.us bookmarks in XBEL format. The Galeon, Konqueror, Arora and Midori web browsers use XBEL as the format for storing user bookmarks. XBEL was created by the Python XML Special Interest Group [1] "to create an interesting , fun project which was both useful and would demonstrate the Python XML processing software which was being developed at the time," [2].
XOXO (eXtensible Open XHTML Outlines) is an XML microformat for outlines built on top of XHTML. Developed by several authors as an attempt to reuse XHTML building blocks instead of inventing unnecessary new XML elements/attributes, XOXO is based on existing conventions for publishing outlines, lists, and blogrolls on the Web. The XOXO specification defines an outline as a hierarchical, ordered list of arbitrary elements. The specification is fairly open which makes it suitable for many types of list data. E.g. the more semantic version of the S5 presentation file format is based upon XOXO.
Wikipedia is a terrific knowledge resource, and many recent studies in artificial intelligence, information retrieval and related fields used Wikipedia to endow computers with (some) human knowledge. Wikipedia dumps are publicly available in XML format, but they have a few shortcomings. First, they contain a lot of information that is often not used when Wikipedia texts are used as knowledge (e.g., ids of users who changed each article, timestamps of article modifications). On the other hand, the XML dumps do not contain a lot of useful information that could be inferred from the dump, such as link tables, category hierarchy, resolution of redirection links etc.
OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of web fe