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Acrobat Reader
A tool by Adobe to view and print PDF files. Acrobat Reader is freely distributable. 

Activated Intelligence
A vendor of XML/XSL tools in Java, e.g. the XSL processor AXSL that is now probably a part of the new EZ/X suite of core XML tools for Java. Homepage

ActiveX
Phrase appearing everywhere COM technology is used, e.g. ActiveXControl, ActiveXServer, etc.

ActiveXControl
A COM object that can be loaded from a server via inter- or intranet and run on any NT-client. In contrast to Java applets, ActiveXControls do not run in a sandbox, e.g. the security restrictions are not too strict. Thus downloading ActiveXControls is only recommended using intranets. Examples for ActiveXControls are XMLDOM and XMLHTTP. Homepage

Adept
SGML editor by ArborText. Homepage

Adobe
Vendor of (among others) SGML/XML tools, e.g. the Acrobat Reader, FrameMaker, FrameMaker+SGML, and SVG stuff. Homepage

Ælfred
XML parser in Java supporting the SAX interface, originally from Microstar Software Ltd. Microstar was acquired by Open Text Corporation in September 1999. Homepage

alphaWorks
Internet information forum by IBM, providing internet technologies, esp. XML tools, e.g. the XML editor Xeena and the XML parser XML4J. These tools have previously been available as free downloads. Recently, IBM also made them available for commercial licensing. Homepage

Apache
Can refer to either the Apache Digital Corporation, a company building web servers, or the Apache Software Foundation, hosting Apache open-source software projects, e.g. the Apache HTTP Server or Tomcat. The Apache Software Foundation incorporates, among others, the Apache XML Project (xml.apache.org) consisting of Xerces, Xalan, Cocoon, FOP, Xang, and SOAP. The xml.apache.org project has the support of, among others, IBM and Sun.

• Apache Digital Corporation
• Apache Software Foundation
• Apache XML Project.

API
Application Programming Interface, the Java-API e.g. consists of the packages 'java.AWT' for building GUIs, 'java.io' to handle IO, etc.

applet
see Java applet.

ArborText
Vendor of SGML/XML tools, e.g. the Adept editor and the documentation system Epic. Homepage.

architectural form
Parts of an architectural DTD that are meant to be used as element- and attribute-models within SGML documents. Documents that contain instances of these element- and attribute-models must refer to the resp. architectural DTD via an 'Architecture Use Declaration PI'.

• Tutorial by Eliot Kimber,
• Chapter 'Architectural Forms and SGML/XML Architectures' on Robin Cover's SGML/XML Page (OASIS), including lots of links,
• David Megginsons XAF page,
• xmlarch: An XML architectural forms processor by Geir Ove Grønmo.

ASP
Active Server Pages, Microsoft's technology to enables HTML pages to be dynamic and interactive by embedding scripts, i.e. either VBScript or JScript, Microsoft's alternative of JavaScript. Since the scripts in ASP pages (suffix .asp) are processed by the server, any browser can work with ASP pages regardless of its support for the scripting language used therein.

• An ASP Tutorial,
• ASP Developer Network,
• Lots of ASP Links.

authentification
Possibility to sign a message that enables the receiver to make sure where the message came from and that it has not been changed after having been signed, see e.g. XML-Signature.

AxKit
Apache XML Delivery Toolkit, a suite of XML processing tools in Perl, for delivering XML to clients using XSLT on the server side. AxKit uses gingerall's Sablotron as an XSLT engine. Homepage

AXSL
Activated XSL, XSL processor by Activated Intelligence. Homepage

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B2B
Business-to-Business, a way of describing the processing of business transactions over the Internet. B2B is one of the main application areas for XML.

Balise
Toolset by AIS for developing document conversion systems. Balise HTML Package is a stylesheet developer for Conversion from SGML/XML to HTML. Homepage.

Base64
An encoding for binary data as described as a means of encoding email bodies in the IETF's MIME RFC. Base64 consists only of 64 encoding characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, /) that are a subset of US-ASCII.

BLOB
Binary large object, something that (e.g. within the context of XML) is treated and esp. gets stored as a whole without further structuring efforts.

Bluestone
Software vendor in the Java, XML area, e.g. providing XwingML. Homepage.

BML
Bean Markup Language, a means of describing a JavaBeans component application in XML

Bolero
Business Objects Language EnviROnment, application factory for electronic business by SAG, released Oktober 98. It contains a proprietary object oriented language that compiles to Java bytecode. All development data is kept in a repository. In addition to Java, Bolero supports features as long transactions, patterns and persistent classes (JRB) incl. OQL retrieval. Product Site.

Breeze
Software vendor and tool in the Java / XML area. Breeze Factor LLC. provides the Breeze XML Studio that binds XML to JavaBeans. Breeze XML Studio is contained in Software AG's Tamino XML Platform. The Breeze Factor LLC Homepage,

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CALS
Standard for modelling tables in SGML/XML, e.g. contained in DocBook.

• CALS DTD, an SGML Open Technical Memorandum on Robin Covers SGML/XML Page.

Candidate Recommendation
A W3C document type which follows the 'last call' Working Draft and precedes the Proposed Recommendation. It is an explicit call to those outside of the related Working Groups or the W3C itself for implementation and technical feedback.

• The Chapter on Candidate Recommendations from the W3C's Process Document.

Catalog
File that contains additional information for SGML documents. Catalogs are esp. read by SGML parsers. Catalog information includes external entities or the DTD.

• James Clark's Documentation of how catalogs are dealt with by his SP parser,
• Entity Management, by Paul Grosso / SGML-Open.

CDATA
Character Data, part of an SGML or XML document, that is not parsed and may therefore contain almost any character sequence. A 'CDATA-Section' begins with "<![CDATA[" and ends with "]]>".

CDF = Channel Definition Format
Channel Definition Format, an XML application. CDF on Robin Cover's SGML/XML page.

CGI
Common Gateway Interface, a standard for external gateway programs to interface with information servers such as HTTP servers. The current version is CGI/1.1. Proprietary standards extending CGI are e.g. Netscape 's NSAPI and Microsoft's ISAPI, the API of the Internet Information Servers (IIS).

• CGI Documentation on the NCSA Server (NCSA = National Center for Supercomputing Applications) at the University of Illinois at Urbana.

CML
Chemical Markup Language, an XML schema, to handle information concerning chemical substances, Homepage.

Cocoon
An XML publishing framework written in Java on top of DOM (rsp. SAX) and XSL.

• Cocoon at the Apache XML Project.
• Cocoon2 , a redesign of Cocoon using SAX as its API instead of DOM.

COM
Component Object Model, the MS-paradigm to connect components. MS has implemented the base technology for COM on the NT platform. Software AG has ported these on MVS and UNIX. A COM-object defines its interfaces. Components from different machines can be combined using DCOM .

Component
A piece of software, program, dynamic link library, or shared library covering a single or multiple tasks, normally covering a whole functional aspect of a system.

Cookie
A small amount of state data stored permanently or temporarily by the client. Cookies are transmitted to and from the server and allow a web site to remember things about the client, e.g. whether the user has previously visited the site. Cookies can be written and read by CGI and JavaScript scripts.

CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture: CORBA is an architecture and specification for creating, distributing, and managing distributed program objects in a network. It allows programs at different locations and developed by different vendors to communicate in a network through an "interface broker." CORBA was developed under the auspices of the OMG (Object Management Group) and has been sanctioned by both ISO and X/Open as the standard architecture for distributed objects (also known as components).

CSS
Cascading Style Sheets, a W3C Recommendation. Stylesheets when attached to documents describe how the document is displayed or printed, e.g. a CSS sheet is attached to an HTML document, to influence its layout when accessed via a browser. CSS supports cascading, i.e. a single document may use two or more stylesheets that are than applied according to specified priorities (=cascade). See also CSS2 and CSS3.

CSS2
Stylesheet language that extends CSS. Different from CSS1, CSS2 is applicable to XML.

• The W3C's CSS2 Recommendation,
• The W3C's Introduction to CSS2.

CSS3
Recent development regarding CSS. The W3C's style working group tries publishing this standard in a modularized way, i.e. there are multiple Working Drafts pertaining to CSS3.

• The CSS3 Introduction, W3C Working Draft, 14 April 2000.

CVS
concurrent versioning system, software for accessing source code repositories, e.g. used in the Apache XML project.

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DataChannel
Vendor of an XML server. Homepage.

Data Map
The Data Map is Tamino's knowledge base. It contains the schemas that hold the rules according to which XML objects are stored and composed. These schemas are entered by the administrator.

DBCS = Double Byte Character Set
One of a number of character sets defined for representing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text, e.g., JIS X 0208-1990. These character sets are often encoded in such a way as to allow mixing double byte character encodings with single byte character encodings.

DCD
Document Content Description, a means of describing XML schemata. DCDs are an extension of XML-Data. In contrast to DTDs, DCDs may not only specify element- and attribute-structure but their data types as well, see W3C Submission.

DCOM = Distributed COM
Distributed COM, impementing systems by combining components that are located on different machines.

DDML
Document Definition Markup Language, a means of describing XML schemata, former name XSchema.

DHTML
Dynamic HTML, a standard extending HTML, consisting of HTML 4.0, CSS, DOM and scripting languages e.g. ECMAScript (ECMA = The European Computer Manufacturers Association).

DocBook
SGML and XML DTDs and DSSSL/XSL stylesheets originally from the Davenport Group, i.e. Norman Walsh, now owned by OASIS, for modelling and converting manuals.

• The official OASIS DocBook Homepage,

docproc
A Java class-library to process and layout XML documents using XSL.

DocZilla
Web browser by CITEC that is supposed to be able to render XML, SGML, and HTML documents. DocZilla is based on Netscape's Mozilla open-source project. It uses CSS and additional features from CSS2 to render XML and SGML directly and also supports the DOM accessed through JavaScript. DocZilla Alpha 3 runs on WinNT/95/98 and Linux.

• DocZilla Components, a framework for building web applications.

DOM
Document Object Model, a platform independent interface for accessing HTML and XML documents usable from within programming and scripting languages. The DOM presents documents in an object oriented fashion. A DOM interface is e.g. provided by Microsoft's XMLDOM ActiveXControl. DOM exists in three levels. DOM Level 1 is a W3C Recommendation and is currently supported by lots of implementations. DOM Level 2 extends DOM Level 1 w.r.t., among others, access to the DTD and namespaces. DOM Level 2 is yet a W3C Proposed Recommendation. DOM Level 2 is specified in a modularized document structure, i.e. Core Specification, HTML Specification, Views Specification, Style Specification, Events Specification, and Traversal-Range Specification. Core is the entry point to read the specification. The DOM group has recently published a first suggestion for DOM Level 3.

• The W3C's DOM Page,

DSC
DSSSL Syntax Checker, an online syntax checker, normaliser and implementation framework for DSSSL, based on embedding a full R4RS Scheme interpreter in James Clark's SP parser, current version is 2.0. It is available for download.

• Henry Thompson's Homepage.

DSSSL
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language, A stylesheet language for SGML and XML documents. A subset of DSSSL (DSSSL-O) is implemented by James Clark's Jade. A freeware syntax checker for DSSSL is Henry Thompson's DSC.

• James Clark's DSSSL Page,
• OpenJade, the site for the DSSSL user group,
• A list of DSSSL Tutorials by Frank Boumphrey,
• The DSSSL Documentation Project, a collective effort to write a DSSSL documentation, hosting among others the 'DSSSL Handbook' and the 'DSSSL Cookbook',
• The DSSSList Homepage.

DTD
Document Type Definition, Schema specification method for SGML and XML documents. DTDs are either contained in the document or belong to its external subset and are then referenced from within the document's document type declaration per URI. Known DTDs are e.g. DocBook, CML, IBTWSH, and HTML. dtd2html generates HTML documentation for SGML DTDs. For XML, DTDs will be replaced by the new XML Schema specification method.

dtd2html
A Perl program that generates an HTML document that documents an SGML DTD and allows hypertext navigation of the DTD. dtd2html is part of the perlSGML package.

• dtd2html Documentation.

DynaTag
A tool to transform existing word processing documents into SGML/XML by Enigma Inc.

• The Enigma Homepage,
• The Enigma DynaTag Product Page.

DynaText
SGML/XML viewer by Enigma Inc.

• The Enigma Homepage,
• The Enigma DynaText Product Page.

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EarthWeb
Webseite for career development and technical information on, among others, Java, XML, and networking (successor of Gamelan).

• The EarthWeb Site.

e-business
electronic business, see e-commerce.

ebXML
electronic business XML, A project jointly initiated by UN/CEFACT (= The United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business) and OASIS to standardize XML business specifications. ebXML intends to develop a technical framework that will enable XML to be utilized in a consistent manner for the exchange of all electronic business data.

• The ebXML Home Page.

e-commerce
electronic commerce, also e-business, a term for all kinds of business that are established electronically especially over the Internet. This includes both electronic sale (internet shops) and B2B transactions, i.e. business between two companies. For e-commerce standards and/or standardization bodies see ebXML, EDI, or RosettaNet.

EDI
Electronic Data Interchange, Contact between companies exchanging orders via intra- or internet. A standard for that is EDIFACT (Electronic Commerce). This can be more secure using internet-tunneling, i.e. two partners use connections that can not be accessed by anybody else.

EDIFACT
United Nations rules For EDI For Administration, Commerce And Transport, ISO standard 9735.

EJB
Enterprise Java Beans, a set of JavaBeans, currently being developed by Sun to support development of distributed applications.

EntireX
Software AG product supporting DCOM and wrapping, among others this enables integrating legacy applications (e.g. on the mainframe) and GUI-frontends. The EntireX Internet site.

entity
A part of an SGML or XML document or DTD. Entities that contain schema information and are referred to from a DTD are called parameter entities. Entities may contain data that is given within the document, i.e. at the very point the entity is declared. An other form of entity is the external entity that contains a URI that points towards the data. If the URI is a PUBLICID it points towards a catalog entry that resolves the PUBLICID to a URL. Thus referring external entities supports indirection. Catalogs are, however, not supported in XML.

An entity is a reference to data that is used for content reuse and document size minimization. Developers can use entities to simplify the management of information that appears repeatedly. XML Authority refers to entities as reusables.

EPIC
XML editor and publisher by ArborText

ERP
ERP (enterprise resource planning) is an industry term for the broad set of activities supported by multi-module application software that help a manufacturer or other business manage the important parts of its business, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service, and tracking orders.

eXcelon
eXcelon Corp., former Object Design and now Progress Software Corporation, vendor of XML/B2B tools, among others, eXcelon Stylus and Object Store (an OO database).

• The Progress Software Corporation Homepage,
• The Announcement 'Object Design Renames and Repositions as XML Player eXcelon' from February 02, 2000

eXcelon Stylus
A visual editor for XSLT stylesheets owned by eXcelon corp., former Object Design.

• The eXcelon Stylus Product Page,
• The eXcelon corp. Homepage.

expat
XML parser toolkit in C originally written by James Clark. James' last release was 1.2 after which the expat maintenance was handed over to a team of developers led by Clark Cooper, the maintainer of the Perl expat binding, XML::Parser.

• James Clark's expat Homepage,
• James Clark's expat FAQ,
• Documentation for XML::Parser::Expat a Perl module encapsulating expat,
• The Announcement of expat's Hand Over on xmlhack,
• expat's new Home at Sourceforge.

external entity
Part of an XML document that is not contained in the document, but is referred to via a URI. External entities may be parsed or unparsed entities. The entity is unparsed, if the entity declaration mentions a notation. The parser thus presumes the entity to contain data that can only be dealt with using the application mentioned in the respective notation declaration.

• Chapter 4. Physical Structures from the XML 1.0 Recommendation.

extensibility
Vendor of XML tools, e.g. XML Authority, a graphical design tool for e.g. XML Schemas, and XML Instance a schema-sensitive XML editor. These tools are both part of Software AG's XENON architecture. extensibility was acquired by TIBCO in 2000.

• extensibility Homepage,

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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions

FO
formatting objects

FOP
A Java application by James Tauber that translates XML documents to PDF making use of XSL's formatting objects. At 9th November FOP has been donated to the Apache XML project.

• The FOP Homepage.

formatting objects
XSL FO, a paradigm in XSL that is similar to DSSSL's idea of flow objects. Rendering an XML document using an XSL stylesheet is done via transforming the input document into another document represented internally as a tree. The structure of this tree corresponds to the structure the document is intended to be represented on screen or in print. The nodes of the tree are formatting objects (e.g. paragraphs, blocks, etc.). This tree is then formatted into the output by rendering the elements of the XML document (the tree nodes, i.e. the formatting objects) as described using the formatting properties specified for the formatting objects within the stylesheet. The first step, transforming the input XML document into the XSL FO instance, is done by an XSLT processor. See XSLT for more information esp. on XSLT implementations. The second step, rendering the XSL FO instance, is done by a renderer. For engines supporting XSL formatting objects see XSL FO.

• The W3C's XSL Specification.

FOSI
Format Output Specification Language, a vendor independent stylesheet language e.g. used for designing the layout of SGML and XML documents in Arbortext's Adept editor.

Fourthought
A company providing custom software solutions for businesses, developing a suite of XML software components in Python.

• The Fourthought Site incl. free downloads.

FTP
File Transmission Protocol, a standard Internet protocol to exchange files on top of TCP/IP. FTP is used, among others, to downloading programs and other files to your computer from other servers.

G

GCA
Graphic Communications Association, a nonprofit organization hosting XML events, e.g. XML Europe 2000. Homepage.

Gecko
The next generation of Netscape's browsers (i.e. Netscape Navigator), built as a part of the open source Mozilla project. Gecko supports XML, DOM 1.0, and CSS. Products and Downloads.

generic identifier
An element's name within an HTML, SGML or XML document that is given in the tag between < and >.

GI
generic identifier

gingerall
Ginger Alliance Ltd., a vendor of XML tools, i.e. the XML distribution architecture 'Charlie' and the XSLT processor Sablotron. Homepage.

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I

I18N
Internationalization. The process of planning and developing products so that they can be changed to meet the requirements of specific local languages and cultures.

IBTWSH
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Simple Hypertext DTD, an XML DTD being a subset of the HTML DTD. This DTD when combined with other DTDs using the namespaces paradign, enables structured comments to be included in documents, DTD, Version 5.0.

ICE
Information & Content Exchange, an XML protocol for exchanging and integrating business data.

IDL = Interface Definition Language
Language for defining interfaces enabling communication between modules implemented in different languages.

IE5
Internet Explorer, Microsoft browser, current version is 5.0.

IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force, the body that defines standard Internet operating protocols such as TCP/IP, URIs, etc. The IETF's main documents are the RFCs.

IIS
Internet Information Server, Web-server, part of the Windows NT Server, supports ISAPI.

Image map
An HTML feature using the <MAP> and <AREA> tags to define mouse-sensitive regions within an HTML page. 

InStranet
Company providing web content management systems. Homepage.

Internet
A a worldwide system of computer networks based on the TCP/IP set of protocols. Its most widely used parts are electronic mail (e-mail) and the World Wide Web (WWW).

Intershop
Vendor of electronic business solutions. Homepage.

Intranet
A private network that is contained within an enterprise using TCP/IP, HTTP, and other Internet protocols. Intranets may include connections through gateway computers to the Internet using firewall servers for security. 

IP
Internet Protocol, protocol in the TCP/IP internet layer for communication between nets and their hosts. An IP-address uniquely identifies each network and each of its hosts on the internet. Addresses consist of four bytes that can be represented by four integers (0 to 255) seperated by dots, e.g. "157.189.162.75". Dependent on the address' class and a subnet mask, a specific number of bits identify the net or subnet and the rest a PC's address within this net/subnet.

ISAPI
Internet Information Server API, API supported by the MS's Internet Information Server (IIS).

ISO = International Organization for Standardization
ISO was founded in 1946. It is an international federation of national standards organizations from over 100 countries. ISO is a word, not an abbreviation, derived from the Greek isos, "equal", found in terms such as "isometric" and "isonomy". It was created in an attempt to avoid creating even more abbreviations for the members' national languages (e.g. IOS in English or OIN in French for "Organisation internationale de normalisation").

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Jade
James DSSSL Engine, C++ implementation of the DSSSL stylesheet language by James Clark for Win32 and UNIX platforms, current version is 1.2. Jade supports the backends RTF, XML, Fot (=Flow Object Tree), TeX, MIF (a MacIntosh-format), and SGML.

• James Clark's Jade Homepage,
• OpenJade, the site for the DSSSL user group.

JAR
Java Archive, file format, basically a ZIP format to contain Java classes and optionally a manifest file to describe the classes, e.g. whether they are JavaBeans. JAR files are created, viewed, and updated and single classes are extracted using the Java Archive Tool (call: jar). JAR files are especially useful when called from applets since the client has less stuff to download when the applet is run.

• Sun's JAR Tutorial.

Java
Object oriented programming language, Java classes compile into Java-bytecode. This code can be executed on any platform that implements the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Executable Java-objects are either applets or applications. Java supports multithreading.

• Sun's Java Platform Documentation,
• 1.1 Core API Specification.

Java Applet
A component written in Java, that can be downloaded from a server via an intra- or internet and executed on a client. The applet runs in a sandbox, e.g. the security settings only allow the applet to access data located on the server the applet is downloaded from. Most browsers contain a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and are thus capable of running applets.

JavaBeans
Java component model. Beans, i.e. reusable Java components with a standardized interface, can be created using the Bean Development Kit (BDK).

• Sun's Documentation,
• Sun's Tutorial,
• The Article XML JavaBeans, Part 1 from the JavaWorld online magazine.

JavaScript
Netscape's object oriented scripting language, usable from within HTML pages. Microsoft's version of JavaScript is JScript.

• A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript,
• Netscape's JavaScript Reference Manual.

JAXP
A freeware Java package by Sun providing core XML capabilities including an XML parser with optional validation (Project X) and an in-memory object model tree that supports the W3C's DOM Level 1 recommendation.

• The JAXP Product Page, you have to register as a JDC (= Java Development Connection) member to enter.

JDBC
Java Database Connectivity, standardized DB interface for Java. This technology allows to write an application once, and use it with any SQL database that has a JDBC-driver.

JDK
Java Developers Kit, toolset by Sun (e.g. the "javac" compiler) for Java development, containing lots of Java class libraries as e.g. Swing. The current version is JDK1.2.

JFC
Java Foundation Classes, an other name for Swing.

JScript
Microsoft's script language for HTML pages. It adheres to the ECMAScript standard and is Microsoft's equivalent to Netscape's JavaScript.

JVM
Java Virtual Machine, Java bytecode interpreter, exists on different platforms, e.g. Windows NT, AS400, ...

K

Koala
XML project by Bull France, the most interesting part is KOML, a Java serialisation using XML, Koala Project Homepage.

KOML
Koala Object Markup Language, a method for serialisation and deserialisation of Java-objects in XML. Homepage.

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Lark
Nonvalidating XML parser by Tim Bray in Java. An Introduction to XML Processing with Lark and Larval.

LotusXSL
IBM's XSL processor in Java usable from the command line or from wrapper applets. 01/12/2000 : LotusXSL has been updated to be a wrapper for the latest version of Xalan. LotusXSL on IBM Alphaworks.

Lynx
A freeware text browser for the web. The Lynx Homepage.

M

Markup
Markup refers to the sequence of characters or other symbols that you insert at certain places in a text or word processing file to indicate how the file should look when it is printed or displayed or to describe the document's logical structure. The markup indicators are often called "tags."

MathML
Mathematical Formula Markup Language, XML DTD for mathematical formular.

metalanguage
Metalanguage is a definition or description of language.

Mime
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, the MIME-type specifies a mail's type, e.g. text, application, audio, etc.

• The IETF's MIME Internet Drafts,
• The IETF's MIME RFCs,
• A MIME Page at 'finetuning.com'.

Mozilla
An open-source project starting from the source of the Netscape Navigator, Netscape's web-browser. Netscape is a major contributor to the Mozilla code. At the same time, Netscape uses the Mozilla code as the basis of its Netscape 6 product. Mozilla supports XML via a DOM API and CSS stylesheets. XSL support is planned.

• The Mozilla Project's Homepage, i.e. mozilla.org,
• The Mozilla Project and mozilla.org, by Mitchell Baker,
• XML In Mozilla,
• MozillaZine, an independent source of Mozilla news.

MSL
Model Schema Language, an initiative by members of the W3C's XML Schema Working Group, to provide a formal model for the XML Schema language.

• The message New MSL Draft by Jonathan Robie, published 15.09.2000 on a W3C mailing list.

MSXML
Validating XML parser and XSLT processor by Microsoft, written in Java that ships with IE5. For a conformant XSLT processor upgrade to MSXML3, a COM Object that replaces the former non-conformant Java processor.