| Area | Organization | XML Application |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) | Extensible Financial Reporting Markup Language (XFRML) |
| Advertising | Newspaper Association of America (NAA) | NAA Classified Advertising Standards Task Force |
| Automotive | The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) | XML for the Automotive Industry - SAE J2008 |
| Banking | Banking Industry Technology Secretariat (BITS) | Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) |
| Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) | Bank Internet Payment System (BIPS) | |
| Microsoft, Intuit, CheckFree | Open Financial Exchange (OFX) | |
| Communication | Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) | Telecommunications Interchange Markup (TIM) |
| Wireless Application Protocol Forum (WAP) | Wireless Markup Language (WML) | |
| Content Syndication | Vignette, et al | The Information and Content Exchange Protocol (ICE) |
| Directory Services | The DSML Initiative | Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) |
| Novell | DirXML | |
| Distributed Management | Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.(DMTF) | Common Information Model (CIM) |
| Education | Educom IMS Project | IMS Meta-data Specification |
| Schools Interoperability Framework | SIF | |
| Electronic Commerce | CommerceNet | eCo Framework |
| Commerce One | Common Business Library (CBL) | |
| CXML.org | Commerce XML (cXML) | |
| IBM | Business Rules Markup Language (BRML) | |
| Joint Electronic Commerce Program Office (JECPO) | Product Data Markup Language (PDML) | |
| MartSoft | Open Catalog Format (OCF) | |
| Open Trading Protocol group (OTP) | Open Trading Protocol (OTP) | |
| RosettaNet | RosettaNet | |
| EDI - Electronic Data Interchange | Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) | ANSI ASC X12/XML |
| EEMA EDI/EC Work Group (CEN/ISSS) | XML/EDI Group | |
| Enterprise Resource Planning | Open Applications Group (OAG) | Open Applications Group Interface Specification (OAGIS) |
| Financial | Financial Information eXchange protocol(FIX) | FIXML |
| FinXML.org | FinXML | |
| FpML.org | Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) | |
| Infinity | Network Trade Model (NTM) | |
| Forms | JetForm Corporation | XML Forms Architecture (XFA) |
| UWI.Com | Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) | |
| Healthcare | Health Level Seven | HL7 |
| Phase Forward | Clinical Trial Data Model | |
| Human Resources | DataMain | Human Resources Markup Language (hrml) |
| HR-XML Consortium | JobPosting, CandidateProfile, Resume | |
| Open Applications Group (OAG) | Open Applications Group Interface Specification (OAGIS) | |
| Siemens Business Communication Systems | Siemens Time and Attendance System | |
| Tapestry.Net | JOB markup language (JOB) | |
| Insurance | ACORD | Property and Casualty. Life (XMLife) |
| Intellectual Property Rights | Xerox Palo Alto Research Center | DPRL |
| Legal | U. S. District Court, District of New Mexico | XML Court Interface (XCI) |
| Utah Electronic Law and Commerce Partnership | Legal XML Working Group | |
| News | International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) | News Industry Text Format (NITF) |
| XMLNews.org | XMLNews-Story, XMLNews-Meta | |
| Real Estate | OpenMLS | Real Estate Listing Management System (OpenMLS) |
| Real Estate Transaction Standard working group (RETS) | Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) | |
| Science | NASA | Astronomical Instrument Markup Language (AIML) |
| MoDL Project Team | Molecular Dynamics Markup Language(MoDL) | |
| The OpenMath Society | OpenMath | |
| Proteometrics | BIOpolymer Markup Language (BIOML) | |
| Peter Murray Rust | Chemical Markup Language (CML) | |
| Visual Genomics | Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language (BSML) | |
| World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) | |
| Software | IBM | Bean Markup Language (BML) |
| INRIA | Koala Bean Markup Language (KBML) | |
| Marimba and Microsoft | Open Software Description Format (OSD) | |
| Object Management Group (OMG) | XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) | |
| Travel | Open Travel Alliance | OTA |
| User Interface | Mozilla.org | Extensible User Interface Language (XUL) |
| UIML.org | User Interface Markup Language (UIML) | |
| Web Applications | Allaire | Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) |
| Extensible Log Format project | Extensible Log Format (XLF) | |
| Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) | |
| Workflow | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Simple Workflow Access Protocol (SWAP) |
| Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) | Wf-XML |