The technology industry is full of acronyms, and the field of XML with its many acronym-named standards seems to have even more than average. Because of this phenomenon within XML and our own tendency to use acronyms from time to time rather than their often lengthy expansions, we provide a brief glossary of acronyms and their expanded names.

ADML Architecture Description Markup Language

API Application Programming Interface

CASE (As in CASE tools) Computer Aided Software Engineering

CM2 Common Metadata Model

CMM Capabilities Maturity Model

CSS Cascading Style Sheets

DBMS Database Management System

DM Data Management

DOM Document Object Model

DTD Document Type Definition

EAI Enterprise Application Integration

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EJB Enterprise Java Beans

ERD Entity-Relationship Diagram

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, etc.)

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IP Internet Protocol

JAD Joint Application Development (JAD sessions)

PIP Partner Interface Process (RosettaNET term)

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

RDF Resource Description Framework

RNIF RosettaNET Implementation Framework

RXMD Repository-Based XML Metadata Documents

SAML Security Assertions Markup Language

SAX Simple API for XML

SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language

SME Subject Matter Expert

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

SSL Secure Socket Layer

TCP Transport Control Protocol

TLS Transport Layer Security

UDDI Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration

WSDL Web Service Description Language

XBME XML- Based Metadata Engineering

XBP XML- Based Portal

XKMS XML Key Management Services/System

XML Extensible Markup Language

XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language

XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations